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Cloistered for life
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Until the French Revolution, the cloister garden of the Dominican convent was a place of prayer and meditation. Since the Middle Ages, the convent would welcome women from the nobility. Once they had taken their vows, they were cloistered for life. The garden and the cloister were their only space for development outside the convent buildings. The Gothic convent in Unterlinden is regarded as a founding building which influenced the entire architecture of the mendicant orders in the Upper Rhine. The former convent became the Unterlinden Museum in 1849.
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