Propstei Klingnau

The Propstei Klingnau, in the background the Klingnau Castle

Supraporte in Bürgeln Castle

The Propstei Klingnau was an administrative seat of the St. Blasien monastery in Klingnau in Switzerland .

history

In 1241, Abbot Arnold I. von Berau exchanged the land with Ulrich von Klingen , on which the little town of Klingnau was built. In 1725 the Wilhelmite monastery Sion was added. Heinrich von Döttingen is named as the first provost in 1239. In 1250 he had a barn and a stone office building built to move the provost's office from Döttingen to Klingnau.

After the previous building burned down on August 2, 1518 (13 men died), a new provost building was erected in 1543 under Provost Jakob Hurter. It can be seen in Matthäus Merian's view of the city from 1642. It was a small castle with a central stair tower. Over time, the space was no longer sufficient for the extensive administration of the properties, and in times of crisis it was common to flee to Switzerland with the convent of St. Blasien. For this purpose, a new building was considered together with the Sion Monastery, but this turned out to be too expensive. During the reign of Abbot Franz Schächtelin on January 14, 1746, a contract was signed with Johann Caspar Bagnato . The previous building was demolished and the materials and foundation walls reused as far as possible.

The building, built between 1746 and 1753 according to plans by the master builder Johann Caspar Bagnato, stands on a slope that slopes steeply towards the Aare . In addition to the Wislikofen priory , it was the most important branch of the St. Blasien monastery.

As a result of the coalition wars, French, Russian and Austrian troops were billeted and the building was badly damaged. From September 1799 to March 1800 the provost house housed 1,423 officers and 4,680 men (the Sion monastery 4320).

After the secularization of 1806, the provost with the former St. Blasian possessions fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden . The government in Karlsruhe sold the entire property with the Wislikofen provost, the Kaiserstuhl Schaffnerei and the remaining property in Zurich and Schaffhausen in 1812 for 390,000 gulden to the Guggenheim brothers from Lengnau, of which 30,000 gulden were later reduced. As early as October 1812 they sold it to the canton of Aargau , which in turn was sold to two citizens of Klingnau. In 1875 it was bought by the Bally shoe factory , which carried out extensive renovations. In 1901 the town of Klingnau bought it for administration and as a school building, and in May 1903 the Klingnau school was inaugurated.

Today it is a listed building and serves as a school building and seat of the Klingnau city administration.

List of provosts and keepers

Heinrich, provost in Döttingen, then in Klingnau, 1239–1258 Berchtold, 1284–1290, († 1311) Burchard, 1299-1302 Walther, 1306 Berchtold, 1316-1317 Ulrich, 1318-1321 Heinrich (von?) Hewen, 1322 Conrad von Rosswangen, 1324–1325 Johann Künring, 1327-1335 Hermann Stüre, 1343 Heinrich Scherer of St. Gallen, 1355–1360 Ulrich Richlinger, 1361-1364 John, 1364-1371 Heinrich Denkinger, 1372–1385 Conrad Ratt, 1392-1393 Heinrich Gündelwang, 1398–1401 Itel Fridinger, 1411-1414 Claus Höy, 1418 Jakob Anwart, 1421–1423 Hans Seiler, 1426 Hans Vetzer, 1427 Hans Stoub, 1428-1439 Cunrad Ulmer, 1440-1449 Jos am Büel, 1450–1462 Johann Hüffinger called Hans Meßner, 1462–1466 Paulus Stoffel, 1466 Heinrich Holl, 1468 Heinrich Frankh (Propsteiverweser), 1470–1471 Matthäus von Greuth, 1471–1480 Diepold von Lupfen, 1482–1483 Jörg Meyer, 1487–1488 Heinrich am Rain, 1490–1492 Hans Stähelin, 1493–1505 Hans Steinlin, 1506-1513

Christoph von Greuth, 1513–1519 (also Bishop of Constance Bailiff) Gallus Haas , 1520 Jörg Beltz, 1523-1525 John IV. Wagner 1525–1540 Jakob Hurter, 1543–1560 Kaspar Thomas, 1564 Simon von Breitenlandenberg, 1564–1589 Georg Haller, 1589–1590 Martin I. Meister , 1591–1596 Urban Küenz, 1589–1599 Martin Gleichauf, 1599–1600 Johann Georg Rüffelmann, 1601–1603 Gallus Keller, 1612–1631 (†) Georg Dietschi, 1632-1635 Benedikt Bebel from Ensisheim, 1636–1638, then abbot in Schuttern Monastery Friedrich Jakob Eggs, 1639–1641 Jakob Bentlin, 1641-1642 Paul Schleuninger from Klingnau, 1643–1651 Sebastian Ziegler from Stetten, 1651–1675 Ildephons Bürk from Villingen, 1675–1686 (†) Johann Chrysostomus Wex, 1686-1710 Viktor Dornblüth, 1710–1711 Ildephons Schleininger from Klingnau, 1710–1735 Cölestin Vogler from Wolfach, 1735–1739 Meinrad Troger from Rheinfelden, (new building of the Propstei), 1739–1746 Viktor Zimmermann, 1746–1760 Adalbert Maurer from Konstanz, 1761–1780 Casimir Christians, 1786–1793 (afterwards dean in St. Blasien) Berthold Rottler , 1793-1799 Mauritius Ribbele , 1799–1801 Vinzenz Ilger , 1802-1806

literature

• Louis Dreyer: Chlingenowe - Klingnau. Baden-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3 85545 040 4
• Otto Mittler : History of the City of Klingnau. 1967 (2nd edition)

Web links

• Website of the city of Klingnau
• Website of the primary school Klingnau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Mittler, History of the City of Klingnau , p. 34

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '48.4 "  N , 8 ° 14' 57.7"  E ; CH1903:  660994  /  270249