Former Benedictine Monastery Schienen

Who would have thought ?Around the year 800, parts of the bones of St. Genesius and Eugenius were brought from the Reichenau monastery to the Michaelskirche on Schiener Berg, which was later given the patronage of St. Genesius."The monastery already appears in the fraternization lists of St. Gallen and Reichenau (from the 1st half of the 9th century); later in those of Pfäfers and Remiremont. A Reichenau monk wrote a report about the translation of the relics of St. Genesius based on rails and about the miracles that have already occurred; afterwards the bodies of St. Genesius and Eugenius brought from Jerusalem to Treviso by Count Gebhard; from there the translation of a thigh of St. Genesius through a scrot based on Lake Constance and in the service of King Pippin of Italy, comes Florentinae Civitatis; he had assigned the relics on his property a worthy storage place, which is probably a church or chapel. "The Schrotzburg was built to protect the whole. Hammer I didn't know it until now.

Very nice hiking region