St. Lazarus Abbey
The Abbey of St. Lazarus is a monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Seedorf UR , Uri in Switzerland . The monastery belongs to the Swiss Benedictine Federation.
history
The monastery in Seedorf is the oldest monastery in the canton of Uri and also the only one whose origins go back to the Middle Ages .
The Lazariterhaus was built in Seedorf in 1197. The Lazarus Order , a hospital order and later also a knightly order, was founded, as a rule, in double monasteries with a house of brothers and sisters, as was the case in Seedorf.
With the end of the Crusades and a decline in the care of lepers , the Lazarites lost their importance. In 1413 the male monastery was closed, while the nunnery continued to exist until it finally went out around 1526 in the general crisis of the 16th century after many nuns had succumbed to the plague in 1518. According to the law of the time, the buildings and the property fell to the land of Uri .
As a sign of the Counter-Reformation , a Benedictine abbey with nuns from the Claro Monastery , Canton Ticino , was built in Seedorf in 1559 . Spiritually the new monastery was looked after first by the Bishop of Constance , then by the Benedictine monasteries Einsiedeln and Muri , from 1642 until today by the monastery Einsiedeln.
Since the unused Lazarite buildings (consisting of a small church, a hospital, a nurses 'house and a brothers' house) had fallen into disrepair, the construction of today's monastery began at the end of the 17th century. The abbey church was consecrated in 1700 and the entire building was completed in 1727.
The 11 sisters earn their living through arts and crafts, agriculture and taking in guests. In 2009 the Benedictine Abbey celebrated its 450th anniversary.
Abbesses
- 1559–1583 Sr. Anna Margareta von Locarno from the Claro Monastery
- 1592–1626 Sr. Katharina Arnold
- 1603–1611 Sr. Anna Gimmer +1632
- 1611-1617 Sr. Helena Styger, +1626
- 1617–1634 Sr. Scholastica Kempf
- 1612–1617 Sr. Martha Püntener (possibly until 1624) +1619
- 1624–1634 Sr. Clara Gruner (abdication) +1644 in Hermetswil Monastery
- 1635–1645 Sr. Johanna Caecilia Zumbach +1670 (appointment to Frauenalb Abbey in Baden)
- 1645–1661 Sr. Maria Elisabeth Renner
- 1661–1681 Sr. Maria Kunigunde Schmid
- 1681–1700 Sr. Maria Ursula Püntener von Brunberg
- 1700–1727 Sr. Maria Anna Eberlin
- 1727–1754 Sr. Maria Anna Tanner
- 1754–1782 Sr. Maria Johanna Regina Elisabetha Helbling
- 1782–1797 Sr. Maria Josepha Francisca Salesia Reding from Biberegg
- 1797-1818 Sr. Maria Josepha Clara Isabella Fornaro
- 1818–1842 Sr. Maria Josepha Schmid
- 1842–1871 Sr. Maria Constantia Vinzentia Gerig
- 1871–1883 Sr. Maria Josepha Gertrud Widmer
- 1883–1918 Sr. Maria Bernarda Sax
- 1918–1943 Sr. Basilia Würsch
- 1943–1947 Sr. Maria Josepha Lichtsteiner (resigned from office in 1942)
- 1947–1993 Sr. M. Gertrudis Käslin
- 1993-2002 Sr. M. Josefa Dreier
- 2002-2013 Sr. M. Veronika Bernet
- 2014- Sr. M. Imelda Zehnder
literature
- Rainer Hugener: Seedorf (UR, monastery). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Johannes M. Mühllechner [Hrsg.]: The monastery Sankt Lazarus Seedorf and the Lazarite rules of 1314: a contribution to the 450 year anniversary . JM Mühllechner, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01620-0 .
- Helmi Gasser : The St. Lazarus Monastery in Seedorf, UR . Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-85782-404-2 . (Swiss Art Guides series, No. 404).
- Rudolf Henggeler : The Benedictine monastery at St. Lazarus in Seedorf . St. Lazarus Women's Monastery, Seedorf 1959.
Web links
- Website of the St. Lazarus Abbey, Seedorf
- Website of the mother monastery Monastero di Claro in Ticino
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Rudolf Henggeler: The Benedictine convent at St. Lazarus in Seedorf . St. Lazarus Women's Monastery, Seedorf 1959.
Comingians / Commanderies: Breitenbich | Braunsroda | Gfenn | Gotha | Megersheim | Sangerhausen | Schlatt | Wackenhausen | Uri
Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '55.6 " N , 8 ° 36' 44.2" E ; CH1903: 689,456 / 193002