Hermit house
The Einsiedlerhaus is probably the oldest building in Rapperswil and belongs to the Capuchin monastery in Rapperswil , which operated a small cloth mill here until 1972 .
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location
As part of the monastery complex, the building is located at the extreme end of the Rapperswil peninsula jutting out into Lake Zurich , on the so-called “Endingerhorn”, in the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen .
It is attached to the western watchtower of the city fortifications and can be seen on the view in Codex Vindobonensis (1550). The fortress section with the attached semicircular defense tower ( Endingerturm , since 1597 with a passage to today's monastery garden) is the historically most important remnant of the former city fortifications. With the construction of the monastery from 1603 it was expanded to the western tip of the peninsula, and the hermit's house has been within the city walls ever since .
history
The hermit's house is probably the oldest surviving building in Rapperswil's urban area. Probably 250 years ago, the year 981 is documented, before the city of Rapperswil was founded, it was used by pilgrims who wanted to cross the lake or to the Ufenau and Lützelau with their own landing stage .
The land near the Endingerhorn and the building - which is connected to the use of the monastery garden - belong to the Einsiedeln monastery , which gives it its name . With the upswing of the town, the Einsiedeln governor in Pfäffikon used it as a sust to store the goods that were sold on the Rapperswil market . From 1562 the building was rented to others.
With the consecration of the Capuchin monastery in 1610, the building was given its present form by Augustin Hofmann , Abbot of Einsiedeln Monastery. From 1660 or 1669 the Capuchins were allowed to use it as a wool weaving mill with the consent of the Einsiedeln abbot. In March 1670, the council authorized the Capuchins to set up a fulling mill at the mill , in which over 16 hundredweight of wool were woven annually until the contract was terminated by the Einsiedeln monastery in the summer of 1693 . In the 18th century the building was given its current appearance (restored by the local community in 1972). In 1718 the weaving business was transferred to the city of Rapperswil, which exported the products to southern Germany . The weaving mill was mechanized in 1895 and electrified in 1914. The last woolen weaver, the Capuchin Christian Endres, died in Rapperswil Monastery in 1971 - and with him the monastic tradition after exactly 300 years.
From the orchard to the rose garden
In 1972, after arbitration proceedings that had been conducted with interruptions since 1908, the Capuchins lost their orchard by the hermit's house, which was used by the city under lease and converted into a garden for antique roses. As early as 1913, the “Rapperswil and Environs Transport and Improvement Association” had rose gardens and, from 1965, rose gardens in the true sense of the word in the old town of Rapperswil . 1972/73 also in the former orchard of the Capuchin monastery, on the initiative of the tourist association or Dietrich Woessener, founder (1959) and honorary president of the "Society of Swiss Rose Friends".
The fountain in the garden is a donation from neighboring communities for the 750th anniversary of the Rose City ; an old fountain bowl made of Jura limestone, artfully restored and redesigned.
In a certificate dated February 6, 1975, Rapperswil solemnly assured the brothers that they would replace the fruit loss 'in kind'. Every autumn, a fruit farmer from Feldbach (ZH) delivers 150 kilograms of apples as rent, with the consent of the Benedictine monastery in Einsiedeln as the owner of the building and orchard, for which the Capuchins have to bring the abbot of Einsiedeln a symbolic annual rate of one franc.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Rapperswil-Jona culture building set: 36 museums without a roof
- ^ Rapperswil-Jona tourist office, churches and monasteries
- ↑ Einsiedeln monastery archive, general inventory of the Einsiedler house
- ↑ a b Website Kapuzinerkloster Rapperswil, history
- ^ Website of the Society of Swiss Rose Friends
- ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung (February 5, 2005): 150 kg apples for the Kapuziner Rapperswil: For 30 years rent in kind for the rose garden at the Einsiedlerhaus ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
Picture gallery
Red roses in the former orchard
Orange roses on the inner wall
Monastery garden and rifle house, engraving by David A. Schmid and Franz Hegi, around 1833
Rapperswil before the construction of the Capuchin monastery, Codex Vindobonensis 1550
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '35.5 " N , 8 ° 48' 46.7" E ; CH1903: 704 082 / 231534