Wall charts, history and European Identity

EU Culture Programme; Education and Culture DG

Boniface fells the Oak of Donar near Geismar

Gelijke plaats

  • Boniface fells the Oak of Donar
  • Germanic garb of the Iron Age - around 400 AD
  • In St. Paul's Church 1848
  • Gutenberg and letterpress printing
  • Luther op de Rijksdag te Worms, 1521
  • Arminius the Chersuci. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
  • Vrede van Munster (1648)
  • Rudolph I of Germany
  • In front of the house of Goethe in Classical Weimar
  • Germany destroyed – Cologne 1945

Gelijke tijd

  • Boniface fells the Oak of Donar
  • Willibrord, de Apostel der Friezen.

Trefwoorden

christendomMönche

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Series:

Engleder, Vaterländische Geschichtsbilder nach Orginalen in den königlichen Museen

Tijdlijn:

Mittelalter

Plaats van de handeling:

Unknown

Illustrator:

Hess, H.v.

Uitgeverij:

Piloty und Loehle, München

Jaar van uitgave:

1911

Thema's:

Religie    Europese geschiedenis   

The picture shows the Anglo-Saxon monk Boniface felling the pagan Oak of Donar, 723 AD. His companions on the left side are praying and holding up the cross. On the right side of the picture you can see the scared pagans, fearing the revenge of Donar. The heathen priest is dodging the falling oak.