Sion Monastery (Klingnau)

Sion Monastery (Klingnau)
The Sion monastery on a bridge in Bürgeln Castle
medal	Wilhelmites
founding year	around 1269
Cancellation / year	1798
Start-up	new order
location
country	Switzerland
region	Kanton Aargau
place	Klingnau
Geographical location	47 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '56.2 "  N , 8 ° 15' 3"  E ; CH1903:  661102  /  270 493
Situation in Switzerland

The Sion monastery was a Wilhelmine monastery in Switzerland . It was located in Klingnau in the canton of Aargau and existed from 1269 to December 17, 1810

history

In a letter of foundation dated May 27, 1269, Walther von Klingen and his wife Sophie presented an oratorio at the foot of the Achenberg called Sion, qui locus vocabulo Syon dictur . Two months later, on July 26th, Walther von Klingen confirmed the award. In 1467 Ulrich Dämpfli († February 10, 1522) , who came from Waldshut , took over the post of prior from his predecessor Konrad Baumgarten. He had a cloister built and brought the monastery to bloom by organizing the finances and using his own resources. A new monastery church was built in 1578 under the prior Conrad Schmidlin. A significant change took place in 1589. The daily statute of the eight places deprived the Bishop of Constance and the mother house of the Oberried monastery from the protection and supervision rights. The Wilhelmitenkloster existed with a few conventuals until 1725, when it was taken over by the St. Blasien monastery together with Oberried and the Mengen monastery . From the time from 1239 to 1798 the names of about 60 Klingnauer provosts have come down to us.

The monastery St. Blaise possessed in Klingnau since the 13th century land ownership and a Fronhof and built from 1745 to 1754 according to the plans of the architect Johann Caspar Bagnato the provost Klingnau .

In 1749, Franz Anton Bagnato , together with his foreman Ferdinand Weizenegger , started a construction survey , but no construction work was carried out.

The Sion monastery was also substantially rebuilt and renewed under St. Blasien . Franz Joseph Vogel was the plasterer and master builder . A school, an Inferiora (lower grammar school), which existed until 1807, began under St. Blasien in the Sion monastery . Six priests taught here, school attendance was free of charge and, above all, promoted theology studies, resulting in numerous clergymen. The penultimate prior was Vinzenz Ilger . The last prior was Beda Graf , he still lived with two capitulars in Sion. There are old pictures of the monastery, including a copper engraving by Daniel Meissner . After the abolition of the monastery in 1810, the buildings were initially used as a cotton factory and from 1837 as a silk manufacture, and over time they were converted into apartments. The old vaulted monastery cellar is still preserved.

literature

• Otto Mittler : History of the City of Klingnau. 1967
• Wolfgang Welti: The Wettingen Abbey and the Wilhelmite Priory Sion near Klingnau 1593–1615 . A contribution to the history of the Wettingen cistern monastery under Abbot Peter II. Schmid (1594–1633). Licentiate thesis, 1971

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Mittler, Geschichte der Stadt Klingnau , 1967, p. 244
2. ↑ Otto Mittler: History of the City of Klingnau . 1967, p. 221