St. Anna Monastery (Lucerne)
The St. Anna Monastery is a Capuchin monastery on the Gerlisberg in Lucerne , Switzerland .
history
The order has been based in Lucerne since 1498, the year in which five terziaresses from Solothurn began a monastic life at the St. Anna Chapel on the Bruchmatte. In 1574 they had their little monastery "under the trees" at Sternenplatz (today the Stadtkeller restaurant). In 1599 they moved to Rössligasse and from 1619 to 1904 they worked in the Bruchkloster. In 1899 the canton government bought the monastery and the property. After long deliberations about a new building site, a patron of the Crivelli family offered them one on the Gerlisberg. The new monastery was built by the then cantonal engineer Müller between 1901 and 1904.
Wafer bakery
There is a wafer bakery in the monastery. The wafers are produced due to lack of offspring not of the sisters, but of lay mainly in manual labor.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 33 " N , 8 ° 20 ′ 11" E ; CH1903: 668 204 / 212406