The Scots Monastery

The Scots Monastery is At the west give up of the Old Town of Regensburg, in Jakobstrasse, is the Schottenkirche, additionally referred to as the Scottish Church or Scots Monastery. Built in 1150 by means of Irish clergymen, this former Benedictine monastery - initially named Jakobskirche or St. James Abbey - was in the end named after the severa Scottish clergymen and missionaries who called it home from 1560 to 1860. A highlight of a go to is the spectacularly ornate north doorway - the Scottish Doorway which has resulted inside the church being named one in all Germany's maximum essential Romanesque ecclesiastical buildings.

Also of importance is close by St. Ulrich's Church, an Early Gothic church courting from 1025 and home to the Diocesan Museum with its sacred art from the eleventh century onwards. The abbey became in the beginning constructed to the south of the city walls around the year 1070, however this quickly proved to be too small to deal with the influx of Irish priests. A new web site outside of the western town gate was purchased, and production of a brand new abbey started out around 1100. Around 1300 the metropolis partitions had been extended and St. James have become a part of the fortified city.