Monastery in the Reuental

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The Reuental in Bern, below the Latin school (C), the Spittel (at the lower edge of the picture in the middle of the detail), and the third Teutonic Order House (B). Detail from the engraving by Matthäus Merian , after Joseph Plepp (1638).

The monastery in Reuental ( in the Rüwental ) was a beguinage and from 1342 to 1427 a Teutonic nuns' house in Bern .

history

The Bernese German women were incorporated into the coming of the Teutonic Order in Bern and obliged to obey the order's pleban . When the sister house "im Reuental" was closed in 1427, it was located at the western end of the Teutonic Order House on Untere Herrengasse . As Reuental or Rüwental, the foothills of the former Gerbergraben, the area below the northern bridgehead of the Kirchenfeld Bridge , became in Berndesignated. The Bernese sister house of the Teutonic Order was created in 1342 by amalgamating three existing samings (beguinages), one of which was named Samnung at the parish cemetery in 1301. One of the houses was probably already called "im Reuental" at that time and was probably located in the house on the banks of the Aare, at the lower end of the Reuental, which is still called Spittel (Aarstrasse 62). The nuns are likely to have primarily occupied themselves with the care of the sick and the poor.

With the abolition, the sisters’s divine service obligations were transferred to the Kommende Bern. Due to the construction of the Bern Minster , the Teutonic Order House had to be demolished. The new building of the house took place partly in the yard of the sisters. The last sister of the order Margaretha Zehnder was resigned with a personal item.

List of masters

  • Anna von Seedorf , documented 1342/43
  • Katharina von Hallwyl , documented 1346–1356
  • Verena von Önz, widow of Rudolf Kerren
  • Greda Colatin, documented 1365

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literature

  • Helvetia Sacra , Vol. IV / 7, pp. 650-658.
  • Alfred Ehrensberger: The service in the city and landscape of Bern in the 16th and 17th centuries , Bern 2011. Digitized
  • Walter Morgenthaler: Bernese madness . In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde, Volume: 11 (1915), doi : 10.5169 / seals-181736
  • Eduard von Rodt : The St. Vinzenzen-Kirchhof in Bern and its surroundings . In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde, Volume: 17 (1921) doi : 10.5169 / seals-184622

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For the situation plan, see von Rodt 1921, p. 233.
  2. ↑ State Archives of the Canton of Bern Documents, subject pen, June 22, 1301
  3. ↑ Localization on www.flashearth.com
  4. ↑ Morgenthaler 1915, p. 163.
  5. ↑ http://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=61087
  6. ↑ http://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=61086
  7. ↑ http://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=61081
  8. ^ Widow of Konrad Senn von Münsingen.
  9. ↑ Hans Braun: Kerren. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 14, 2008 , accessed June 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '48.9 "  N , 7 ° 27' 3.2"  E ; CH1903:  600,934  /  199538