Klösterli Baden

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Klösterli Baden

The Klösterli Baden is a former monastery of the Capuchin nuns in the Aargau city ​​of Baden . The name is still used for the former monastery building.

history

From 1396, a beguinage community is documented in Baden that lived under the supervision of the Lucerne Barefooters . After the Capuchin monastery was founded in Baden in 1591 , the Beguines soon joined the Capuchin order. On the spot where the Klösterli still stands today, they built the monastery church in 1617/1618 and the convent building in 1623.

Like all Aargau monasteries, the cantonal government dissolved the monastery in the course of the Aargau monastery dispute in January 1841. However, it was able to reopen in 1843 when the canton allowed the women's convents again. The monastery was very dilapidated when it reopened and its assets had shrunk in half. The nuns were not allowed to accept novices, so the monastery was finally closed in 1867 by a resolution of the Grand Council .

From 1872 the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Menzingen ran an "educational institution for the poor" in the Klösterli. In 1892 around 80 children lived there, in 1911 there were 70 small children and 50 school children. The school in Klösterli was closed in 1952 and in 1964 the children's home moved to Wettingen . The Baden Cantonal School, founded in 1961, used five classrooms and several ancillary rooms here until it was able to move into the new building on Wettingerstrasse in 1964. Today, in the premises of the former monastery are City Library Baden and a kindergarten housed, while the monastery church from the register office is used swimming as best eatery.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 16.2"  E ; CH1903:  665 277  /  two hundred fifty-eight thousand one hundred fourteen