Munsterlingen Monastery
Münsterlingen Monastery was a Benedictine monastery in the municipality of Münsterlingen in the Swiss canton of Thurgau .
history
Original location on the shores of Lake Constance
Legend has it that the monastery was founded around 986 by a sister of Abbot Gregor von Einsiedeln (964–996) directly on the shores of Lake Constance out of gratitude that she was saved from distress by a foehn storm while crossing Lake Constance. The place was called Monasteriolum and later Münsterlingen. From 986 to 1000 sisters were relocated from the Augustinian monastery in Kreuzlingen to Münsterlingen and there, too, adhered to the Augustinian rules. The abbey was St. Walburga and saw her task in nursing from the beginning.
In 1125, Emperor Heinrich V allowed the Bishop of Konstanz , Ulrich I von Kyburg-Dillingen , to restore the monastery and gave the house various slopes . Pope Innocent IV confirmed the Augustinian rule in 1254 , Pope Alexander VI. 1497 in a bull their observance. In the late Middle Ages the nuns were also considered Dominicans , although they did not belong to this order. However, since the first quarter of the 14th century, their pastors were Dominicans from the St. Niklaus preacher monastery in Constance. The Lords of Klingen acted as guardians , but the nunnery was able to buy itself out of their bailiwick in 1288 . The monastery expanded immunity for the monastery district and began to establish judicial rule over their courts. In the 14th century, the city of Konstanz took the Münsterlingen monastery into its citizenship rights. In 1460 Münsterlingen came under the castvogtei of the seven federal places ruling in Thurgau ( Zurich , Lucerne , Uri , Schwyz , Unterwalden , Zug and Glarus ) and from then on was subject to their high jurisdiction . In 1486 Münsterlingen acquired half of Landschlacht's jurisdiction from the Petershausen monastery . The other half was bought by the monastery in 1621 from eleven owner families in Landschlacht. As a result of the jurisdiction of the court in 1509, Münsterlingen was contractually assigned a seat in the Thurgau jurisdiction . The monastery kept the lower jurisdiction among others in Münsterlingen, Landschlacht, Uttwil , part of Schönenbaumgarten and Belzstadel until 1798.
Use for the Reformed and Catholic denominations
In 1524 the reformed teaching found its way into Münsterlingen. In 1533 the old monastery church was approved for both denominations. In 1549 Benedictine nuns from Engelberg came to renew the Catholic faith. In 1617 a special church was built in Scherzingen for the Reformed . In 1633 the Benedictine nuns left the monastery because of the Swedes who were before Constance. After that, insurgent farmers moved in there.
Later location inland
From 1709 to 1713, a new convent building was built for the monastery a little higher and inland, at today's location on Landstrasse, based on plans by Franz Beer . The baroque monastery church was built in 1711-1716. In 1836 the monastery was placed under state supervision due to over-indebtedness. In 1848 the monastery was closed.
Change of use
In 1840, the canton hospital was set up , initially only in a wing of the monastery that had been taken over by the canton of Thurgau , and has since been modernized through several modifications and additions and adapted to medical standards. The last expansion took place in 1998.
On the original monastery grounds on Lake Constance, mentally ill people, then referred to as "madmen", were housed from 1838, from which a facility that still exists today, with several different names, developed: 1895 - Thurgau Insane Asylum, 1940 - Thurgau Sanatorium and Nursing Asylum, 1966 - Psychiatric facility Münsterlingen Clinic, 2000 - Thurgau Psychiatric Services.
Ice processions
The custom of the ice procession has existed since 1573. During the ice procession on the occasion of the Seegfrörne in 1963, the bust of Johannes was carried from Hagnau in Germany to Münsterlingen in Switzerland across Lake Constance and is now inside the former monastery church until it is carried in a festive procession to Hagnau at the next Seegfrörne becomes.
literature
- Friedrich Meichle: Frozen sea and ice procession in the past and present. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. 81st year 1963, pp. 145-170. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Erich Trösch: Münsterlingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Angelus Hux : Münsterlingen: Former monastery church of St. Remigius. On the website of the Catholic Church Thurgau
Timeline with details of the Münsterlingen monastery on the website of the Protestant parish Scherzingen-Bottighofen
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Münsterlingen Cantonal Hospital ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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^ Erich Trösch: Münsterlingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). - ^ Friedrich Meichle: Seegfrörne and ice procession in the past and present . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . No. 81 . Thorbecke, Lindau / Konstanz 1963, p. 164-165 .
- ^ Friedrich Meichle: Seegfrörne and ice procession in the past and present . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . No. 81 . Thorbecke, Lindau / Konstanz 1963, p. 164-165 .
- ↑ History of the Münsterlingen Cantonal Hospital ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Friedrich Meichle: Seegfrörne and ice procession in the past and present . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . No. 81 . Thorbecke, Lindau / Konstanz 1963, p. 145-170 .
