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office over the Abbey, making the city the secular ruler over the Abbey. During the 1490s
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who was also responsible for several surrounding nunneries. In 1234, a small monastery was founded in
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and reform scholarship. The school remained in operation over the following centuries and in 1780 it became the first teacher training college in
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