New St. Johann monastery
Neu St. Johann was a Benedictine monastery in Neu St. Johann (today the municipality of Nesslau ) in Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen . It existed from 1680 to 1805.
history
The monastery was a re-establishment of the St. Johann monastery in about 10 kilometers up the valley and later so-called Alt St. Johann . This monastery, which has existed since the 12th century, burned down in 1626.
The new monastery buildings were erected in what was then Sidwald (later Neu St. Johann) until 1680 in a Baroque style that was influenced by southern Switzerland . The construction management was in the hands of the Misox master builder Pietro Andreota and the master carpenter Kaspar Lederli from the Bregenzerwald . In the mixed denominations of Toggenburg, the monastery was an instrument of counter-Reformation efforts by the prince abbots of St. Gallen.
In 1805 the monastery was closed. The former monastery church became the parish church of the Catholic parish in Neu St. Johann. The Johanneum curative education center is housed in the other buildings .
literature
- Werner Vogler (Ed.): The St. Johann monastery in the Thurtal , catalog for the exhibition, St. Gallen Abbey Archives , 1985, ISBN 3-9521128-9-5
- Society for Swiss Art History (Bern) (Ed.), Daniel Studer: The former monastery of St. Johann im Thurtal , Bern 2002, ISBN 3-85782-709-2
Web links
- Floor plan of the former monastery (PDF; 281 kB) on the site plan of today's curative education center (No. 1–5) ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Büchler: Krummenau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Johanneum Curative Education Center
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '44.5 " N , 9 ° 11' 35" E ; CH1903: seven hundred thirty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-six / 232 384