St. Gallenberg Monastery

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The monastery and the Thur bridge in the 19th century

The St. Gallenberg Monastery , also called St. Gallusberg , is a Benedictine monastery near Oberbüren in Switzerland . It is a member of the Swiss Benedictine Federation .

The monastery was created from the acquisition of Glattburg Castle from the possession of the Glattburg taverns by the St. Gallen Monastery . This was done in 1648 by bailiff Rudolf Reding , who had bought it in 1628. Abbot Beda Angehrn gave it to the nuns of Libingen for use in 1781 . The monastery was elevated to an abbey in 1984 . Ancilla Zahner has been Abbess since 2013.

After the dissolution of the Benedictine monastery of St. Wiborada in St. Georgen in 1834, valuable relics were brought from its property to Glattburg, in particular a reliquary bust of the saint .

literature

  • Otto Henne am Rhyn : Local lexicon of the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell. St. Gallen 1868.
  • Josef Grünenfelder: Benedictine Abbey St. Gallenberg Glattbrugg, Oberbüren (= Swiss Art Guide , Series 72, Volume 714). GSK Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-85782-714-9 .
  • Markus Kaiser: Benedictine Abbey of St. Gallenberg in Glattburg near Oberbüren. Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen 2004, ISBN 3-906616-67-3 .

Web links

Commons : St. Gallenberg Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Henne am Rhyn: Local lexicon of the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell. St. Gallen 1868, p. 96 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Zahner, Ancilla. In: orden-online.de. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Vroni Krucker: The monastery Glattburg and the Holy Wiborada. (No longer available online.) In: infowilplus. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; Retrieved November 3, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '39.5 "  N , 9 ° 9' 23.6"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-six  /  258105