Grimmenstein Monastery
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 Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI)
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| District : | Oberegg | |
| Postal code : | 9428 | |
| Coordinates : | 763 966 / 257 002 | |
| Height : | 645 m above sea level M. | |
 Monastery with walled monastery garden - on the right in the background Lake Constance with the mouth of the Alpine Rhine |
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The Grimmenstein Monastery forms an exclave of the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden ( Switzerland ) within the municipality of Walzenhausen ( Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden ).
history
The Capuchin convent , which still houses 16 nuns, was originally founded in 1378 as a beguinage . Grimmenstein only became the place of activity of Capuchin women after the Pfanneregger reform . At that time, Capuchins were sent to Switzerland to support the renewal of the Catholic faith. The buildings fell victim to fires several times. The current appearance of the monastery complex therefore goes back to the years 1724–1726.
After Appenzell was separated into a Catholic and a Reformed part of the country in 1597, the territorial affiliation of Grimmenstein was long disputed. It was not established between the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Innerrhoden until 1870 through a federal decree. The church and the actual monastery building went to Innerrhoden, the confessor's house and the areas outside the monastery walls to Ausserrhoden. Officially, the area of the actual monastery belongs to the Oberegg district .
Today the monastery church of St. Ottilia also serves as a parish church for the Catholics of Walzenhausen. The nuns perform the clerical and organist services for the parish . In addition to the spiritual activities, the Capuchins devote themselves to the monastery garden and the processing of the herbs and medicinal plants that have been planted. The sisters process these into natural healing products which they sell in the monastery shop.
Another Innerrhoder exclave in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden is the Wonnenstein Monastery .
literature
- Rainald Fischer: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . The Inner Land: Gonten, Gontenbad . Birkhäuser AG, Basel 1984, ISBN 3-7643-1629-2 . (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 74.) P. 522.
Web links
- Official website of the St. Ottilia Grimmenstein Monastery
- Entry to Grimmenstein Monastery on Order online
- Christian Schweizer: Grimmenstein Monastery. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .