!!!Annalen

Annals (yearbooks), chronological accounts of contemporary events (as 
distinguished from  Chronicles, which are written as coherent 
histories). The oldest annals in Austria were kept in Salzburg 
(8th-10th centuries) and have only been passed on in part. The annals 
of Niederaltaich (Bavaria) are an important historical source from the 
11th century; the annals of Goettweig (around 1115) have been lost. 
The origin of Austrian annals is considered to be the annals of Melk 
(begun 1123, kept until 1564), from which a number of other 
monasteries took passages and continued their own annals: 
Klosterneuburg, Heiligenkreuz, Lilienfeld, Zwettl, Schotten in Vienna, 
Dominicans (or Minorites) in Vienna, Kremsmuenster-Lambach, 
Reichersberg. The Salzburg-Admont-Garsten annals are considered to be 
a separate group. Austrian annals were fairly short until 1200, mostly 
containing only one event per year. Towards the end of the 12th 
century, the annals became more detailed, primarily giving accounts of 
provincial history. Most monastery annals end in the 13th century, and 
only a few continue beyond that point. At times detailed accounts are 
also included in the annals, such as in the "Historia annorum 
1264-1279" by the monk Gutolf in Heiligenkreuz.

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Some Baroque historiographers also called their works annals, e.g. 
Hieronymus Megiser, "Annales Carinthiae", 1610; Valentin Preuenhuber, 
"Annales Styrenses", 1625-1630; F. C. Khevenhueller, "Annales 
Ferdinandei", 12 vols., 1640-1726; Abbot Bernhard Linck von 
Zwettl, "Annales Austro-Claravallenses", 1723-1725.

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Ausgabe: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum IX, ed. G. H. 
Pertz, 1851, XXX, part 1, 1925.

!Further reading
A. Lhotsky, Quellenkunde zur mittelalterlichen 
Geschichte Oesterreichs, 1963; S. Haider, Ein neuentdecktes 
Lilienfelder Annalen-Fragment, MIOeG 82, 1972.


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