The Abbey of Saint Gall has existed at least since 747 AD and became an independent principality between 9th and 13th cen ...
Around 1007, Emperor Henry II moved St. George"s Abbey from its former location on the Hohentwiel in Singen to Ste ...
The Capuchin Friary is situated to the west of the city of Rapperswil, below the Lindenhof of Rapperswil Castle on the ...
A first convent for women in Appenzell was officially mentioned in 1420/21. In 1613, four Capuchin nuns from Wonnenstein and ...
Romainmôtier Priory is a former Cluniac priory founded around 450 AD by Romanus of Condat. The monastery church of Romai ...
The provost of the Interlaken Monastery was first mentioned in 1133 when Holy Roman Emperor Lothair took the Monastery, ...
Einsiedeln Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Einsiedeln. The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, ...
Payerne Priory was founded between 950 and 960 by the Burgundy royal family and especially by Queen Bertha of Burgundy. In ...
Kloster Allerheiligen (All Saints abbey) is a former Benedictine monastery in Schaffhausen. Today the convent houses the ...
The monastery, where Capuchin monks used to live between the years 1595 and 1997, is somewhat hidden in the outer area of the ...
The Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair, located in a valley of the Grisons in the extreme south-eastern part of Switz ...
Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Priory was founded in 1090-1097. The church, built in two stages between the 11th and 12th centuries ...
Rheinau Abbey (Kloster Rheinau) was a Benedictine monastery in Rheinau founded about 778 and suppressed in 1862. It is lo ...
Formerly the date of the foundation of Disentis Abbey, attributed to the local saints Placidus and Sigisbert, was held to be ...
Ittingen Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery near Warth. It is now used as an education and seminar centre with ...
Königsfelden Monastery is a former Franciscan double monastery, which housed both a community of Poor Clare nuns and o ...
The Frauenkloster nunnery in Schwyz was established in 1275. The current buildings date from the 17th century, the church was ...
A Capuchin monastery was established in Stans in 1583 by Melchior Lussy, who had been sent to the Council of Trent. Initially ...
Fischingen Abbey was founded in 1138 by Ulrich II, Bishop of Constanz as a private episcopal monastery, with the intention ...
Weesen Abbey, established in 1256, is the oldest Dominican monastery of nuns in Switzerland. The buildings and the library (a ...