Convent of St. Verena

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"Zur Froschau" with the St. Verena convent (building to the right of the Froschouw label ). Excerpt from the Murer plan

The St. Verena convent in Zurich was a complex of buildings belonging to the Beguine Community . Attested for the first time in the middle of the 13th century, it developed into a women's convent under the spiritual care of the neighboring preacher 's monastery , but not into a monastery incorporated into the Dominican order . Around 1300 a chapel of St. Consecrated to Verena von Zurzach . The approximately 20 sisters themselves contributed to the livelihood: in a workshop they made textile work, in the neighboring quarters of the city they looked after the sick and dying, performed prayer services, and since the middle of the 15th century they ran a girls' school (with lessons in German) for Common daughters.

The convent was abolished in autumn 1524 like the other monasteries in Zurich. The 25 women were resettled in the abolished Oetenbach monastery . The convent house became Christoph Froschauer's printing works in 1551 . Today there is a cinema in the building.

literature

  • Magdalen Bless-Grabher: The Beguines in Zurich. In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich: urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages. Edited by Barbara Helbling u. a. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-970-4 , pp. 250-263.
  • Barbara Helbling: The Gotzhus Sant Vrenen. In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich: urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages. Edited by Barbara Helbling u. a. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-970-4 , pp. 214–227.
  • Marlis Stähli: Prayers, psalms and health rules: “Sant Frene” in manuscripts from the Bern Burger Library and the Zurich Central Library: a Zurich prayer book in the Bern Burger Library. In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich: urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages. Edited by Barbara Helbling et al. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-970-4 , pp. 237–247.
  • Dölf Wild: On the building history of St. Verena. In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich: urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages. Edited by Barbara Helbling u. a. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-970-4 , pp. 228-236.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '23 "  N , 8 ° 32' 43"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and eighty  /  247502