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Appenzell Innerrhoden

Oberegg

St. Anton von Padua Chapel

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Oberegg

St. Anton von Padua Chapel

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St. Anton von Padua Chapel

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Location: Oberegg, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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1. Appenzeller Aussichtsroute

38.9km

02:38

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2. Gallus Square – Landsgemeindeplatz Trogen loop from St. Gallen AB

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03:28

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3. Ruppen Pass – Landsgemeindeplatz Trogen loop from Heiden

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02:59

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Mattia

July 23, 2024

Once you have completed the journey to St. Anton, you will come directly to the chapel, which was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua. After a lightning strike and fire in 1931, it was rebuilt a year later and today regular services are held there.

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Paul

August 4, 2022

Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua, in St. Anton
The dedication document of the St. Anthony Chapel on St. Anton, which was destroyed by lightning on June 20, 1931, is dated May 2, 1932. When the 70th anniversary was celebrated in Oberegg on St. Anton in 2002 on the second weekend in June, it was justified to take a look at the chapel's eventful history. The origins of the Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) cannot be clearly determined historically. According to legendary tradition, the Obereggers are said to have buried the fallen "on the Egg near St. Anthony" after the historically confirmed battle of 1428 on Honegg, in which the Appenzellers defeated a raiding party of Frederick VII of Toggenburg. There are also traditional testimonies that around the middle of the 15th century, the requests and intercessions of believers were heard by Saint Anthony "at the wayside shrine on the Egg". Finally, the evidence on the question of the patronage of Saint Anthony of Padua is also unclear. In the traditional explanations, there are repeated references to the influence of Franciscan nuns from the surrounding monasteries. In the "Appenzell Charter Book", in the "Road Letter of the Neighborhood at Hirschberg" from 1470, there is a passage that says that the path leading from Marbach branches off "at the wayside shrine towards Grauenstein". The chronicler Gabriel Walser also writes of the "wayside shrine where the weary people of the Rhine Valley rest on their journey to St. Gallen and bring their requests to the great Saint Anthony". Text / Source: Author(s): Bischofberger, Iv0
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Location: Oberegg, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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St. Anton von Padua Chapel

1. Appenzeller Aussichtsroute

2. Gallus Square – Landsgemeindeplatz Trogen loop from St. Gallen AB

3. Ruppen Pass – Landsgemeindeplatz Trogen loop from Heiden

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