Töss Monastery

Töss Monastery

Kloster Töss
The former Töss Monastery in a drawing by the historian Heinrich Murer (17th century)
Location within Switzerland
Monastery information
Order	Dominican
Established	1233
Disestablished	1525
Mother house	Predigerkloster, Zürich
People
Important associated figures	Elsbeth Stagel, Elizabeth of Hungary
Architecture
Status	demolished
Site
Location	Töss, Winterthur, Canton of Zürich
Coordinates	47°29′16″N 8°42′12″E / 47.487658°N 8.70321°E / 47.487658; 8.70321

Töss Monastery was a community of Dominican nuns located in the former Swiss city of Töss, now a part of Winterthur. Nothing of the original buildings exists today.

Construction of the monastery began in 1233, near the bridge at the

The monastery residence hall was begun in 1238 and finished in 1271. The monastery church was dedicated in 1240 by the Bishop of Constance. A new main altar and two side altars were dedicated in 1325, probably after the church was enlarged. The cloister was expanded and decorated with murals between 1468 and 1491. The 15th century paintings were redone in 1613 and were copied in 1851 before it was demolished.^[2]

In the 14th century there were around 100 nuns at Töss. The Swiss

After the French Revolution, there were not sufficient resources to conserve the complex and the site was sold to Johan Jacob Rieter, who started Rieter Textile there. The former monastery church was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century.

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  Elsbeth Stagel in the Lives of the Nuns of Töss
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  Reproductions of murals from the cloister, by Johann Conrad Werdmüller
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  Monastery buildings in 1838
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  Front gate of the monastery

References

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