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Show Clout. r 800 Years OU The ruins of the l'uullnitlla cloister clois-ter near Had lilaukeuburg, Thurlngla, among the largest and most beautiful of their kind In Germany, look back in pride on h'lO years of history. The (lolster wus built by Benedictine monks and consecrated In 1131 by the archbishop of Malm. It was badly damaged In 1j-o during the Peasants' war and was abandoned soon there after. Further destruction was caused by lightning In the Seventeenth century. cen-tury. The parts preserved have been termed by a great German art hie torian "one of the stylistically moat Imposing creations of the Middle Koinanestjue period. |