Johanniter coming Leuggern

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The Johanniterkommende after Matthäus Merian 1654

The Johanniterkommende Leuggern was a commander of the Order of St. John in the municipality of Leuggern in Switzerland. The coming existed as a double coming with Klingnau from 1250 to 1806.

history

In 1231 the Free von Bernau bequeathed their property in Leuggern to the Order of St. John. First, the property was assigned to the Kommende Bubikon , before the Kommende Leuggern was founded in 1250/51 and took over the administration with the construction of the convent house. The Komtur moved his seat in 1268 to the Kommende von Klingnau, so that the Doppelkommende was administered from there until 1415. The Kommende Leuggern developed into the religious and political center of the parish of Leuggern, which in addition to Leuggern also included the present-day communities of Böttstein , Full-Reuenthal and Leibstadt . In 1284, Count Ludwig von Frohburg-Homberg and his wife Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil gave the Kommende the village of Dogern on the right bank of the Rhine . In 1415, the landlord and judiciary center reined in the double coming back to Leuggern. Although both comers formed an administrative unit, both had their own prior, since Leuggern belonged to the diocese of Basel , but Klingnau to the diocese of Constance . When the county of Baden was conquered by the Swiss Confederation , the Coming came under the Castvogtei of the Eight Old Places . Leuggern remained in the possession of the order until 1806 and was then secularized by the canton of Aargau, founded in 1803. The canton first converted the coming into a state domain , before dissolving it in 1819 and selling the buildings. From 1895 they served as old people's and sick asylum and from 1897 as a district hospital.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '49.7 "  N , 8 ° 13' 1.8"  E ; CH1903:  658 572  /  270266

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum, Volume I., p. 191.