🛕 Königsfelden Monastery

Switzerland · Europe · 47.48°N, 8.22°E

Königsfelden Monastery is a former Franciscan double monastery, which housed both a community of Poor Clare nuns and one of Franciscan friars, living in separate wings, in the municipality of Windisch in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It was founded in 1308 by the Habsburgs. In the course of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland in 1528 it was secularized, and the complex was then the residence of the bailiffs of Bern.

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Country	Switzerland
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	47.48°N, 8.22°E · view on map

Königsfelden Monastery is located in Switzerland, in Europe.

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