Soultzmatt-Wintzfelden. “The Rule and Life”, first book of the Friends of Schwarzenthann

This is the culmination of long-term work for the Friends of Schwarzenthann. A year after giving new life to the old convent of which ruins remain on the heights of Wintzfelden, through 3D modeling, the association has just published its first self-published work. The fruit of the meeting between Richard Fillinger, the treasurer of the association, and Martine Hiebel, who joined the Friends of Schwarzenthann in 2021.

A four-handed translation

The Rule and Life is first of all the translation of “customary” from Codex Guta-Sintram. In 359 articles, this text in Latin specified the rule of Saint-Augustine and regulated all aspects of the life of the nuns of Schwarzenthann and their supervisory community, the abbey of Marbach. But he would have beamed…