diff --git a/R/KorAPConnection.R b/R/KorAPConnection.R
index 243e179..e4a1ed2 100644
--- a/R/KorAPConnection.R
+++ b/R/KorAPConnection.R
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 #' @rdname KorAPConnection-class
 #' @export
 setMethod("initialize", "KorAPConnection",
-          function(.Object, KorAPUrl = "https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/", apiVersion = 'v1.0', apiUrl, accessToken = getAccessToken(KorAPUrl), userAgent = "R-KorAP-Client", timeout=110, verbose = FALSE, cache = TRUE) {
+          function(.Object, KorAPUrl = "https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/", apiVersion = 'v1.0', apiUrl, accessToken = getAccessToken(KorAPUrl), userAgent = "R-KorAP-Client", timeout=240, verbose = FALSE, cache = TRUE) {
             .Object <- callNextMethod()
             m <- regexpr("https?://[^?]+", KorAPUrl, perl = TRUE)
             .Object@KorAPUrl <- regmatches(KorAPUrl, m)
diff --git a/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd b/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
index ee18692..75a165e 100644
--- a/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
+++ b/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   apiUrl,
   accessToken = getAccessToken(KorAPUrl),
   userAgent = "R-KorAP-Client",
-  timeout = 110,
+  timeout = 240,
   verbose = FALSE,
   cache = TRUE
 )