Canons of Heiligenberg

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The Canon Monastery of Heiligenberg (also known as the Canon Monastery of Heiligberg ) was a monastery of the Augustinian Canons on a hill above Winterthur .

The pen

The pen is no longer preserved. It was not a self-contained building complex such as B. the neighboring monastery Töss ; Beneficiary houses and parish church stood in the area of ​​today's Rosengärtli up to the Bühlwiese. In the search for the Winturm , traces of the canon monastery were found.

The canon monastery was in the Friedkreis of the city of Winterthur, Kollatur and Vogteirechte were owned by the respective rulers of the city, first the Kyburger, then the Habsburgs and finally the Zurichers. In the area of ​​the monastery there was a quarry that was used by the people of Winterthur.

history

The canon monastery was probably founded by the Kyburgers on their own land near Winterthur between 1225 and 1227 . The monastery had its own parish church , which perhaps already stood in front of the monastery in this place. The parish church was headed by a people priest . Until 1264 the monastery comprised four benefices . When the Habsburgs inherited the Kyburger, Rudolf von Habsburg donated another benefice. In 1355 the monastery was burned down by the people of Zurich. In 1369 another benefice was added. During the unsuccessful siege of Winterthur by the Zurich residents in 1415, the monastery was again destroyed and rebuilt.

The monastery was abolished as part of the Reformation in 1525. The city of Zurich took over the collatures of the Schlatt and Buch churches . She sold all movable goods and bequeathed the lands of the monastery for 1400 guilders (the price was reduced by 400 pounds in 1533) to the city of Winterthur, which had to deliver ten fathoms of wood annually to the Zurich clerk in Winterthur . The parish church was demolished just five years after its dissolution. Today nothing can be seen of the former monastery.

Known inmates

  • Laurentius Bosshart (around 1450–1532), Winterthur chronicler. He was one of the last canons on the Heiligenberg.

literature

  • Kaspar Hauser : The Augustinian canons of Heiligenberg near Winterthur (1225–1525) . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library 1908 . Winterthur 1907.

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '44.9 "  N , 8 ° 43' 32.4"  E ; CH1903:  696,978  /  two hundred sixty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-six