Talk:Rüti Monastery

185 localities
185 localities in the northeast of Switzerland or 185 total or 185, all in the northeast of Switzerland, or what?--Wetman (talk) 21:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you for the fixes. Ref. localities, imho a detail, as written: around 185 (localities/estates, so-called "Rütihöfe"/fiefs) in what is now northeastern Switzerland, according to Ortsmuseum Rüti (was there personally in December 2009). See also HDS, section external links.


 * Togenburg family (btw): I've been told, 14 members of the Toggenburg family in all have been buried in Rüti, i.e. probably most of them in the "Toggenburger Gruft" (a burial vault/tomb where is today the entrance hall to the church), and Friedrich VII, maybe together with a nephew, in the so-called "Toggenburger Kapelle" (a small chappel) that was broken respectively probably destroyed in 1706 or before.
 * 'Other burials: In addition there was a large number of members of noble families/knights living nearby (Regensberg family excluded!) and the families of the latter Amtsmann (plural: Amtsmänner) from 1525-1789. Some (few) gravestones you'll find in the Rüti church, most of them may been lost, destroyed (probably the ones of the nobilities in June 1443 by the Swiss troops in the Old Zürich war), or were re-used for buildings etc. The bodies of the Swiss-Austrian knights who died in Näfels were buried in a "mass grave" (in fact no bodies: just their bones) within the church. One abbot rests in the apse, the members of the convent may be buried on the abbey's cemetery nearby the church tower, as of today s small park. To that point, i've no further information (i've been told so).


 * btw2: Upper Lake Zürich is meaning Lake Zürich's (northeastern) shore on so-called Obersee, i.e. Lake Zürich to the east of the Seedamm, among them estates in Rapperswil (probably houses, among them the abbey's former bailiff's house, as of today part of the lakeside "Hotel Schwanen" building), in probably what is today Jona (SG), in Bollingen (SG), Eschenbach (SG) etc., not in what is today the canton of Schwyz (SZ) on the other side of upper Lake Zürich (-> Einsiedeln Abbey).


 * Ref. Toggenburger and Obersee, see references, literature and weblinks respectively mainly Helvetia Sacrae and information by the local historian, and information thanks to a very kind Premonstratensian priest and people of Rüti Ortsmuseum and parish church i was in contact.
 * But all these information i do not intend to use in this artcile as too many details (it's my last article referring to an abbey/monastery, not my goal to write more).
 * Feel free to expand the article, the most important sources are listed in it :-) Regards, Roland Roland 23:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)