place

Scots Monastery Constance

12th-century establishments in the Holy Roman EmpireBenedictine monasteries in GermanyChristian monasteries disestablished in the 16th centuryChristian monasteries established in the 12th centuryFormer Christian monasteries in Germany
Konstanz Merian Detail
Konstanz Merian Detail

The Saint James Scots Monastery in Constance, Germany was a Benedictine monastery, which, like the other Scots monasteries, was founded by Irish monks in the course of the second phase of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. It was situated to the west of the historic city wall near the banks of the Rhine on what is known today as Schottenstraße (Scots Street).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Scots Monastery Constance (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Scots Monastery Constance
Schottenstraße, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Konstanz

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Scots Monastery ConstanceContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 47.666265 ° E 9.173302 °
placeShow on map

Address

Schottenkapelle

Schottenstraße 34
78462 Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Konstanz, Konstanz-Altstadt
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
mapOpen on Google Maps

Konstanz Merian Detail
Konstanz Merian Detail
Share experience

Nearby Places

Council of Constance

The Council of Constance (Latin: Concilium Constantiense; German: Konzil von Konstanz) was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance (Konstanz) in present-day Germany. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal claimants and by electing Pope Martin V. It was the last papal election to take place outside of Italy. The council also condemned Jan Hus as a heretic and facilitated his execution by the civil authority, and ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans and just war, in response to a conflict between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights. The council is also important for its role in the debates over ecclesial conciliarism and papal supremacy. Constance issued two particularly significant decrees regarding the constitution of the Catholic Church: Haec sancta (1415), which asserted the superiority of ecumenical councils over popes in at least certain situations, and Frequens (1417), which provided for councils to be held automatically every ten years. The status of these decrees proved controversial in the centuries after the council, and Frequens was never put into practice. Though Haec sancta, at least, continued to be accepted as binding by much of the church up to the 19th century, present-day Catholic theologians generally regard these decrees as either invalid or as practical responses to a particular situation without wider implications.