The Reichenau Monastery Island World Heritage Site

Visitors to the island can obtain information in three museum units at the REICHENAU MUSEUM on the outstanding significance of Reichenau’s cultural history. Together with the three Romanesque churches, the four museum buildings in all, which are located in close proximity to the churches, form an “information network” on the “Reichenau Monastery Island” World Heritage Site. Together with the visit to the historic buildings, the impressions of the various museum stops of the discovery tour across Reichenau Island are supplemented with an understanding of the “spirit of Reichenau”.

You can almost immerse yourself in the Middle Ages in the largest of the new museum buildings at the existing museum in the “Altes Rathaus” (old town hall). The construction history of the Minster of St. Mary and St. Marcus and of the monastery, the poetry of the monk “Walahfrid Strabo”, the St. Gallen monastery plan, which was created on Reichenau, the work of the monk “Hermann der Lahme” (the lame), who occupied himself with science and the veneration of relics, are among the topics presented in the exhibition. The presentation of the Reichenau manuscript illumination forms a centre of interest.

The small museum buildings at the churches of St. George and St. Peter and St. Paul explain the construction history of the respective church. The famous mural paintings of the Church of St. George or the topic of the fraternisation in prayer are also picked out as a central theme.

The history of the Reichenau burghers is presented in the historic “Altes Rathaus”, one of the oldest half-timbered houses (12th/15th century) in Southern Germany.

REICHENAU MUSEUM
Ergat 1 + 3
D-78479 Reichenau

Opening hours of all museum buildings:
April – October
Tue-Sun  10.30 - 16.30 hours in each case
July & August
Tue-Sun  10.30 - 17.30 hours in each case
Nov – March
Sat, Sun, public holidays 14.00 - 17.00 hours in each case

Admission charge:
Adults EUR 3,00, children EUR 1,50, groups of at least 15 persons EUR 2,00 per person.

Tourist-Information
Pirminstraße 145
D-78479 Insel Reichenau
Phone +49 (0)7534 / 92 070
Fax +49 (0)7534 / 92 0777
www.reichenau.de
info@reichenau-tourismus.de

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