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The Regensburg Museum of History (''Regensburg Historische Museum'') currently resides in a former Minorite monastery, is a museum of the history, art and culture of Regensburg and eastern

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

from the Stone Age to the present day. The former monastery of St Salvator, located in the city's Dachauplatz district, was founded in 1221 by the

Bishop of Regensburg The Bishops of Regensburg (Ratisbon) are bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.

Konrad IV of Frontenhausen, Count Otto VIII of Bavaria, and King Henry VII. The three-naved

basilica In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's Forum (Roman), forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building ...

church was considered the largest church of the order in southern Germany until its closure in 1799. The church and most of its monastic buildings survived, with the monastic buildings converted as barracks and billets for the

Bavarian Army The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1919) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty (''Wehrhoheit'') of Bavaria into that of ...

, and the church as a customs hall, a drill hall and a hotel until it became the location of the Regensburg Museum of History in 1931. It is run by the city of Regensburg.

References

External links

The Historische Museum on the Förderkreises der Museen der Stadt Regensburg website

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

City museums in Germany 1931 establishments in Germany {{Germany-museum-stub