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Location: Fischingen, Münchwilen, Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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1. Cycle Path Along the Töss – Sternenberg Scenic Road loop from Sirnach

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2. Cycle Path Along the Töss – St. Martin's Chapel Oberwangen loop from Sirnach

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3. St. Martin's Chapel Oberwangen – Hulftegg Pass summit loop from Wil SG

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Johanna

March 22, 2020

Here you can take a short or long break and stop at the restaurant or even spend the night in the monastery. A very special experience is spending the night in a former monk's cell.

You can find more information at klosterfischingen.ch.

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Paul

August 3, 2025

Fischingen Monastery / A Journey Through History

In 1138, Ulrich II, Bishop of Constance, founded a private episcopal monastery in his domain on the upper reaches of the Murg River and settled it with Benedictine monks from the Petershausen Monastery in Constance. After an initial period of prosperity, the Fischingen convent numbered barely more than 10 monks until the 17th century. In addition to maintaining monastic life, they were responsible for pastoral care in the incorporated parishes of Dussnang (with Au), Bichelsee, Sirnach, and Bettwiesen, as well as in Fischingen. The Reformation led to a cessation of monastic life in Fischingen for several years. Abbot Heinrich Stoll, a native of Zurich, converted to the new doctrine in 1526 and married; the four remaining monks soon followed his example.

It was the Catholic districts of the Diet that brought about the re-establishment of the monastery by proposing the governor of the Abbot of St. Gallen, Father Markus Schenkli, as the new Abbot of Fischingen at the Diet in Baden in July 1540. After initial personnel and financial difficulties, the spirit of reform prevailed in Fischingen, and the monastery experienced its long prosperity throughout the Baroque period, with an average of 30 monks. Under the saintly Abbot Joachim Seiler of Wil (1672–1688), a prolific spiritual writer and sought-after preacher, monastic spirituality reached such a peak that it was praised in a visitation report with the words "rather to be recommended than improved." The construction of the new monastery church (1685–1687) also took place during Abbot Joachim's time.

Text / Source: Fischingen Monastery Association, old website

benediktiner-fischingen.ch/unsere-geschichte

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Merida33

June 27, 2020

Very beautiful church choir newly restored

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Location: Fischingen, Münchwilen, Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

Fischingen Abbey

1. Cycle Path Along the Töss – Sternenberg Scenic Road loop from Sirnach

2. Cycle Path Along the Töss – St. Martin's Chapel Oberwangen loop from Sirnach

3. St. Martin's Chapel Oberwangen – Hulftegg Pass summit loop from Wil SG

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