Mariaberg Monastery

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Mariaberg Monastery

Mariaberg is a former Benedictine monastery in Rorschach and a cultural asset of national importance .

history

Gabriel Bucelinus : View of the Mariaberg Monastery around 1650

The original building was planned as a relocation of the monastery of St. Gallen to Rorschach, however, were the beginning of the St. Galler War , the 1485 work begun in 1488 initially destroyed. The complex in Mariaberg was then completed as a Benedictine monastery in 1497–1518 due to the Reformation but never moved into. The buildings served the St. Gallen monastery as a governor and later as a school.

The complex in Mariaberg by the Munich sculptor Erasmus Grasser is considered "the most powerful late Gothic monastery in Switzerland ".

Today it houses the University of Education of the Canton of St. Gallen and a non-profit foundation for the promotion of teacher training .

literature

  • Bernhard Other: Rorschach-Mariaberg. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 320). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 1982, ISBN 3-85819-045-4 .
  • J. Häne: The abyssal monastery in Rorschach and the St. Gallen War 1489–1490. Dissertation Zurich 1895; also in: Communications on patriotic history. Volume 26, 1899.
  • Markus T. Huber: Erasmus Grasser as construction expert and technical advisor. The projects in Rorschach and Schwaz. In: Renate Eikelmann, Christoph Kurzeder (Ed.): Moving times. The sculptor Erasmus Grasser (around 1450–1518). Munich 2018, pp. 136–145.

Web links

Commons : Mariaberg Abbey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy P. Marchal : 'Chronicle of the Gotzhaus St. Gallen'. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1 ( 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler ). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 1247.
  2. ↑ http://www.mariaberg.ch/Bau/Bau.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.mariaberg.ch/Stiftung/stiftung.htm

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '21.4 "  N , 9 ° 29' 41.3"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred fifty-four thousand nine hundred ninety-one  /  260013