Billiards at Half-Past Nine
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine is a 1959 novel by the German author Heinrich Böll. The entirety of the narrative takes place on a day in the autumn of 1958, with flashbacks, and characters' retellings fr
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Maria Laach Abbey
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Maria Laach Abbey is a Benedictine abbey situated in Glees, on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See, in the Eifel region of the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is a member of the Beuronese Co
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
…emblematic of Germany's history in the setting of St. Anthony Abbey. The fictional St. Anthony Abbey is thought to have been inspired by the actual Maria Laach Abbey, whose monks were accused of collaborating with the Nazi regime. In 1965, Billiards at Half-Past Nine was made into a film entitled Not Reconciled…
Maria Laach Abbey, the west end with the paradisium, a narthex enclosing a garden.
Maria Laach Abbey, seen from north west
Aerial view of the abbey
Tomb of Henry of Laach at Maria Laach Abbey