Version 1.2.3: history checked against the sources

October 9, 2026

After version 1.2.2 we went through the whole chronicle once more, this time with the sources open on the desk.

History, checked against the sources

Every chronicle page now names its sources precisely: Riedel’s Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, Dehio, J. Raue’s essay on the 19th-century care of the monument, Museum Eberswalde, Kloster Chorin and the Rule of St Benedict.
The abbey received Ziethen in 1275 and Briest in 1277; Groß Ziethen followed in 1320.
The move to Chorin: the charter of 1273 speaks of “many inconveniences” on the island, and the new site already had a mill.
The walls of Mariensee stood until the 1960s; the former island lies near the south-west shore of Lake Parstein.
The monks ate twice a day only from Easter to mid-September, otherwise once.
The church’s vaults collapsed in the 17th century, the conservation works began in 1828, and the east wing, which lost its upper storey in the 1770s, was repaired in 1832.
The wall paintings in the west wing date from around 1300 and survive largely as a copy from 1885.
After 1542 the last monks stayed a few more years. In 1997 the Amt Britz-Chorin took over the former abbey, and the Choriner Musiksommer has been held since 1964.
The solar boat on the Amtssee is now simply a building of the game, not a named ferry.

The brewhouse now strengthens labour (beer was everyday food), the stables bring grain, the café and the concert stage bring silver.
Pilgrims leave food and pray with the brothers instead of leaving bricks, and the merchant from Oderberg trades grain for your fish.
The goals ask for what they need: the wall paintings for silver and Faith, the museum for bricks and silver, the music summer for silver and Faith.

In the 1542 scene only choir monks leave.
The first chapter at Chorin meets “in chapter”: the chapter house is not built yet.

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