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Schaffhausen Minster and Monastery

Schaffhausen Minster and Monastery

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Schaffhausen Minster and Monastery

Name: Schaffhausen Minster and Monastery
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Location: Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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1. Haus zum Ritter – Fronwagplatz loop from Neuhausen

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

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3. Fronwagplatz – Rhine Quay, Schaffhausen loop from Dachsen

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November 12, 2025

The All Saints' Monastery, or Salvator Monastery, in Schaffhausen was a Benedictine abbey founded by Eberhard VI of Nellenburg in 1049. The minster is now a Protestant Reformed parish church.

"On July 10, 1045, Emperor Henry III granted Count Eberhard of Nellenburg the right to mint coins in his villa Scâfhusun. A few years later, around 1050, Count Eberhard founded a Benedictine monastery in the Schachwald forest, between the town of Schaffhausen and the Rhine."

On November 22, 1049, Pope Leo IX, an uncle of the founder, consecrated "an altar in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the so-called Resurrection Chapel or Erhard Chapel," and thus likely also the future site of the monastery. [...] By 1050, the monastery was already under construction."

Heinz Gallmann assumes "that the monastery, in accordance with this pope's ideology, constituted a separate legal entity, subject to the pope's protection, and that the rights of the founding family were thus limited to the hereditary patronage and the appointment of the abbot."

In 1064, the construction of the Nellenburg family's proprietary monastery, founded by Eberhard von Nellenburg and his wife Ita, was completed under the direction of the master builder and court chaplain Luitpald. It was dedicated to the Salvator (Latin for 'Savior'), the Holy Cross, the Virgin Mary, and all the saints. This first abbey was modeled on sacred buildings from Cluniac Burgundy. The monastery, to which a leper house had already been added at its inception, experienced rapid growth. "The minster of this proprietary monastery of the Nellenburgs was consecrated in 1064 by Bishop Rumald of Constance and placed under the protection of the Roman See by Pope Alexander II."

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Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Allergesundheiten_(Schaffhausen)

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Schaffhausen Minster and Monastery

1. Haus zum Ritter – Fronwagplatz loop from Neuhausen

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

3. Fronwagplatz – Rhine Quay, Schaffhausen loop from Dachsen

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