Like the whole of the Germanic Empire, Colmar was deeply impacted by the Dominican presence. After the foundation in 1232 of the Dominican convent (now the Unterlinden Museum) in the north of the town, the Dominicans built a church (now the Dominican Church) and a cloister (now the town library) in 1278. A centre of learning and intellectual life, the convent was visited in 1322 by Johannes Eckhart von Hochheim, known as Master Eckhart. This German Dominican was the founder of Rhenish mysticism, a Catholic spiritual and philosophical movement that developed in the 14th century around the Rhine.