The specific spaces of the monastery are graphically analysed in the form of a catalogue. Historically, monastic life emerged from hermetism. Life as a hermit represents a radical form of asceticism, monastic life is an attempt to make individual retreat possible precisely through a self-chosen communal life. Throughout their long history, monastic buildings have proven to survive profound spatial and programmatic transformation processes remarkably well. Due to their seclusion, monastic buildings always represent other places, heterotopias, too. They are actively cultivated environments in which other orders can develop than under the panoptic gaze of norm society. In this way, they can globally contribute to a growing diversity and at the same time become repositories of knowledge that transcend long periods of time. / 2023 individual work (part of a Master‘s thesis) / DOI: 10.34726/hss.2023.109541