Kloster Roggenburg

About

Acc­ord­ing to tr­ad­i­ti­on, the monas­tery of Rogg­enburg was donated by th­r­ee brot­hers of the li­n­eage of the Ear­ls "von Bibe­reck" in abo­ut 1126: Ber­t­hold, Earl of Bibe­reck; Ko­nrad, Bis­hop of Chur; and Sieg­fried, a Ca­non in Augsb­urg. The fir­st "Ca­nons Reg­u­l­ar of Pr­é­mo­ntré" came from the nearby monas­tery of Ur­sb­erg. They fir­st se­tt­l­ed in the low-lying area ar­o­und a pond, but soon moved to the ca­s­t­le hill. The fast growing monas­tery was raised to an in­de­pen­de­nt abb­ey in 1444. It survived the devas­tati­o­ns of the Peas­a­n­ts´ War, the tur­mo­il of the Re­formati­on, and the devas­tati­on of the Swedish War. In the 18th ce­n­tury th­r­ee gr­eat abb­ots, Do­mi­nikus Sc­hwa­ninger, Kaspar Geis­l­er and Ge­org Li­en­har­th, cr­eated the Bar­oque se­tti­ng, which we can sti­ll see today. In abo­ut 1732 the new con­str­uc­ti­on of the west-wing of the monas­tery beg­an. The fo­undati­o­ns of the new church and the east-wing were laid in 1752.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 3 hours