Trub Monastery
The Trub Monastery was a Benedictine settlement in what is now the municipality of Trub , in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . It was founded around 1125 by Baron Thuringia von Lützelflüh on his land in the Trub Valley and was dedicated to both St. Anthony and St. John the Evangelist consecrated. With reference to the Antonius Cross, the monastery was also called the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Thuringia provided the monastery with rich property and made it subordinate to the St. Blasien Abbey in the Black Forest , which sent the first monks to Trub.
With a document from 1128/1130 from King Lothar III. , exhibited in Strasbourg, the Truber monastery became free of the empire . On April 2, 1139, Pope Innocent II issued a papal umbrella bull to the monastery , which mentions 28 goods in the Emmental , seven in Oberaargau and two vineyards in Cressier NE and one farm each in Därligen on Lake Thun , in Entlebuch LU and in Otelfingen . The privileges of the monastery were also granted by King Konrad III in the same year . approved. In 1286 the monastery submitted to the protection of Bern. In 1414 and 1501 the monastery suffered from fires.
As a result of the Bern Reformation of 1528, it was the first of all Bern monasteries to be abolished in 1532 and its estates were nationalized. After the abolition of the monastery, the eastern and western parts of the convent buildings disappeared, while the south wing was converted into a rural house, which has been partially used as a parish hall since 1999. The former monastery church became the Reformed village church and underwent a radical renovation and a downsizing of the choir area from 1641 to 1645 , adding a baptismal font , a wooden pulpit with inlay work in Renaissance shapes , a communion table and some coats of arms .
On the outer south wall of the church is a sundial painted in 1926 by the village teacher Karl Uetz , on which (probably for aesthetic reasons) a Franciscan and a woodcutter are depicted and which is provided with a motto; this refers to the Benedictine Ora et labora and the folk etymological derivation of the village name Trub from the cloudy weather: "Prayer and work in general banishes fog and brings sunshine".
The coat of arms of the monastery, a golden cross of St. Anthony on a blue background, is today the coat of arms of the municipality of Trub. A bell (1501) from the former Trub monastery hangs today (on loan) in the little church of the Bärau home that was built in 1938 .
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- ↑ Christian Müller: Lützelflüh, Thuringia from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '35.13 " N , 7 ° 52' 38.34" E ; CH1903: 633400 / 199205