 A few years after the reorganization of the Augustinian Order, Hermit monasteries sprang up in Germany, France and Spain.Germany soon possessed forty, many of them large and important, such as those at Mainz, Würzburg, Worms, Nuremberg, Speyer, Strasburg, Ratisbon, all built between 1260 and 1270.As early as the year 1299, the German province was divided into four sub-provinces