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Germania Sacra Online
Germania Sacra documents the institutions of the historic German Church and provides research on archival sources in handbook form.
About Germania Sacra Online
Germania Sacra Online is the website of the Germania Sacra project, based at the Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. The project documents the institutions of the historic German Church and prepares archival sources in handbook form. It covers the period from the early German dioceses in the 3rd and 4th centuries to their dissolution during the Reformation or at the beginning of the 19th century.
The sources are processed according to a uniform pattern so that researchers can work with structured, comparable data on the church of the Old Empire. The project's third series, based at the academy since 2008, describes dioceses and cathedral chapters within the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The homepage also lists news, including approval of a project to build a multimodal corpus for AI-based analysis of medieval sources, and new volumes in the project's studies series. The homepage is in German.
Key features
- Documents institutions of the German Church from the 3rd and 4th centuries to the Reformation or early 19th century
- Prepares church sources in handbook format using a uniform processing pattern
- Provides structured, comparable data on the church of the Old Empire for research
- Third series describes dioceses and cathedral chapters in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Announces a planned multimodal corpus for AI-based analysis of medieval sources
Best for: Researchers in church, constitutional, regional, economic and social history of the medieval and early modern German lands.
Good for
- Applies one consistent pattern to sources, so the data is comparable across dioceses
- Covers a long period, from the early German dioceses to the early 19th century
Watch out for
- The third series is limited to dioceses and cathedral chapters within the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
- The homepage is in German
Germania Sacra Online at a glance
- Website
- adw-goe.de/germania-sacra
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- German
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Germania Sacra Online FAQ
What time period does Germania Sacra cover?
The project covers the institutions of the church from the beginnings of the German dioceses in the 3rd and 4th centuries until their dissolution in the Reformation or at the beginning of the 19th century.
Which area does the third series of Germania Sacra cover?
The third series, located at the Göttingen academy since the start of 2008, concentrates on dioceses and cathedral chapters in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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