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9 however, is in the Baroque quaint villages of Brugg and
Windisch. It was founded
style. Built to an octagonal
Muri plan and crowned by a dome, in 1308 by Elizabeth von
it dates from the 17th century. Habsburg to mark the
! D3 n Marktstrasse 10; Most of the church furnishings spot where her husband
www.muri.ch
were made in the late 17th Albrecht I was murdered by
The splendidly restored and 18th centuries. Duke Johann of Swabia. The
Benedictine monastery in The peaceful cloisters monastery was later given to
a community of Franciscan
Muri constitutes this town’s
adjoining the church are
EXPERIENCE Northern Switzerland Lothringen and Count wife Zita. An exhibition of death, building work on the
main attraction. Kloster Muri
monks and nuns of the Order
the burial place of the hearts
was founded by Ita von
of St Clare. After Elizabeth’s
of Emperor Karl I and his
abbey was continued by her
paintings by the Swiss artist
Redebot von Habsburg in
Caspar Wolf and items from
1027 and was inhabited by a
daughter Agnes of Hungary.
the monastery’s treasury are
community of monks until
During the Reformation
1841. It then fell into disrepair
these religious communities
also displayed here.
were dissolved and in 1804
and was gutted by fire in 1889.
Kloster Muri
In 1960, after it had been
the monastery buildings were
⌂ Marktstrasse 4 # Church:
converted into a psychiatric
meticulously restored, a small
group of Benedictine monks
moved to new premises later
returned to the monastery,
until 7:30pm Tue–Sun
in the 19th century, most
where they ran a hospice.
of the monastery buildings
The oldest surviving parts
were dismantled.
of the monastery’s church until 7:30pm daily; museum: hospital. When the hospital
include its Romanesque 10 " The church, however,
presbytery, crypt and Kloster Königsfelden survives. Built in 1310–30, it
transept. Some Gothic ! D2 £ # Apr–Oct: 10am– takes the form of a monu-
elements also survive. The 5pm Tue–Sun; Nov–Mar: by mental Gothic basilica with a
main body of the church, wooden ceiling. In the aisles
request ∑ klosterkoenigs
felden.ch are wooden panels with depi-
ctions of knights and coats
The Franciscan Abbey of of arms. The 11 stained-glass
Königsfelden lies between the windows in the presby tery are
some of the country’s finest.
Made between 1325 and 1330
The splendidly restored and restored in the 1980s, they
Kloster Muri, with its show scenes from the lives of
highly decorative Christ, the Virgin Mary, the
Baroque interior (inset) Apostles and various saints.

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