Propstei Klingnau
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
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Mittler, History of the City of Klingnau , p. 34
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '48.4 " N , 8 ° 14' 57.7" E ; CH1903: 660994 / 270249