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All Saints Abbey Complex and Schiller Bell

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All Saints Abbey Complex and Schiller Bell

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All Saints Abbey Complex and Schiller Bell

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Location: Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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Paul

March 4, 2022

History of Munster on All Saints' Day
On November 22, 1049, Pope Leo IX. the building site between the city and the Rhine, including an altar. In 1064 the construction of Nellenburg's own monastery, Ita and Eberhard von Nellenburg, was completed under the direction of the master builder and court chaplain Luitpald. This first abbey was modeled on sacred buildings from Cluniac Burgundy.
In the Investiture Controversy, the raging dispute between church and secular power between 1075 and 1122 about the right to appoint clergymen, Count Burkhard von Nellenburg, loyal to the Pope, Eberhard's son and heir, renounced all his rights in 1080. The monastery was placed directly under the Pope and was given the family's considerable property, free election of abbot and the right to market and mint coins from the city of Schaffhausen. The abbots thus became the new city lords of Schaffhausen.
Today's Minster was built over the existing foundations from 1090, which consisted of only three naves and a transept. Construction began in the choir and was completed in 1095. Today the Minster is considered to be the largest Romanesque sacred building in Switzerland.
The monastery, along with Hirsau Monastery and St. Blasien Monastery, was one of the major reform monasteries of the Cluniac reform of the Holy Roman Empire.
Around 1122, the monastery came into possessions in Upper Swabia through a gift from the childless knight Arnold von Hiltensweiler and his wife Junzila, which it consolidated with the founding of a cell and the later founding of the Langnau monastery. However, mismanagement and lack of money there in 1389 finally meant that the property should soon end up in the hands of the Paulines via an intermediate stage.
In 1524 the abbey was converted into a canon's monastery and the minster became the second main church in Schaffhausen. In 1529 the Reformation prevailed in Schaffhausen and the monastery was dissolved. The monastery library became part of the city library of Schaffhausen.
When Schaffhausen was bombed by US bombers on April 1, 1944, parts of the monastery, including the new abbey, were destroyed but later rebuilt. Between 1950 and 1973, the Minster of All Saints was extensively renovated inside and out with the support of the federal government and placed under the protection of the Confederation.
Text / Source: Parish of St.Johann-Münster
ref-sh.ch/kg/sjm/mue-geschichte

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Paul

March 4, 2022

Cathedral of All Saints (1100)
Built around 1100, shows the pure Romanesque style of the strict Hirsauer
construction school. The Romanesque cathedral tower, built around 1200, is one of the most beautiful
Church towers in Switzerland. Masterfully restored 1975-1981.
Text / source: Schaffhauserland Tourismus, Vordergasse 73, CH-8200 Schaffhausen
schaffhauserland.ch

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christian

January 10, 2019

To find here
- the reconstructed herb garden
- Schiller bell (cast in 1486), rang until 1895 as the largest bell of the Minster
- Cloister, largest cloister in Switzerland, with Junkerfriedhof in the middle
- Museum of All Saints

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Holger Kulik

January 16, 2021

Oasis of peace on the edge of the old town of Schaffhausen. The cloister is beautiful and there is a wonderful wine tasting here in autumn. The coffee in the Museum zu Allerheiligen is in a nice and quiet location.

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Ralph

January 4, 2023

The Schiller bell, weighing 4.5 tons, was cast in 1486 and rang until 1895 as the largest bell in the Minster on All Saints' Day. Friedrich Schiller used its inscription as a motto for his famous poem "The Song of the Bell".

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Latschi

September 24, 2023

Inconspicuous at first glance, but a beautiful, well-kept monastery complex.

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All Saints Abbey Complex and Schiller Bell

1. Munot Fortress – Schwabentor loop from Schaffhausen

2. Rhine Falls – Rhine Falls loop from Büsingen am Hochrhein

3. Haus zum Ritter – Rhine Quay, Schaffhausen loop from Schaffhausen

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