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    Kappel Abbey is a former Cistercian monks monastery located in Kappel am Albis in the Swiss canton of Zurich. Kappel Abbey is first mentioned in 1185 by...
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    Cistercian monastery, Kappel Abbey, though only under the condition that he would not take monastic vows nor attend mass. At Kappel Abbey, Bullinger initiated...
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    The Second War of Kappel (German: Zweiter Kappelerkrieg) was an armed conflict in 1531 between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss...
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    especially the fire of 1578. In 1185, the monks from Hauterive founded Kappel Abbey in Kappel am Albis in the Canton of Zurich. In 1261, the La Maigrauge nunnery...
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    June, occupied the Thurgau and the territories of the Abbey of St. Gall and marched to Kappel, at the border of Zug. Mediation at the Tagsatzung allowed...
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    originally part of Einsiedeln and in 1363 was transferred to Kappel Abbey. In 1512 the Abbey sold the rights to the parish income to the parish of Menzingen...
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    Zürich cleric; Leo Jud; Konrad Pelikan; Friedrich Myconius; and the Kappel abbey's abbot. The Hedwig Fountain (1688) was sculpted by Gustav Siber. It depicts...
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    capacity of Cantonal Archivist, in 1859 he published an "Archive of Kappel Abbey", a very large formerly Cistercian Monastery near Zürich that had recently...
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  • disestablished. 1525 - Carolinum Zürich and Rütiamt established 1527 – Kappel Abbey disestablished. 1531 – Froschauer Bible published. 1535 - Coverdale Bible...
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    There was a nunnery at Kappel near Vestervig Abbey, and rumor had it that the monks built a tunnel that ran from the abbey to the nunnery, so that the...
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  • (dissolved) at Hüttwilen (Thurgau): Cistercian nuns Kappel Abbey (sometimes Cappel Abbey) (dissolved) at Kappel am Albis (Zürich): Cistercian monks Kleinlützel...
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    Protestant Appenzell Ausserrhoden. The division led to civil war (the Wars of Kappel) and separate alliances with foreign powers by the Catholic and Protestant...
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    abandoned by Austria and could raise only 9,000 men. The two forces met near Kappel, but war was averted due to the intervention of Hans Aebli, a relative of...
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    Ulrich Hertenstein, a citizen of Lucerne. He, then, ceded the rights to Kappel Abbey in 1448. From 1498 to 1798 the village government and church Jus patronatus...
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    Bichelsee granted land holdings to the abbey and it became Cistercian. In 1263, Pope Urban IV asked the abbot of Kappel to administer Tänikon. From 1268 the...
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    obligations as Vogt of the abbey. The abbey owned numerous estates in Toggenburg and in the Rhine valley: St. Johann, Stein, Nesslau, Kappel, St. Peterzell and...
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    and from Wattwil to Ebnat-Kappel were controlled by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), as it leased the Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel section from the BT. The first...
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    of the Sins parish. The church tax rights were sold in 1389 to Kappel Abbey in Kappel am Albis. In 1531 they went to the Hof monastery in Lucerne. Then...
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    owned by Muri Abbey. In 1239 Hartmann Visilere granted all his possessions and rights in Beinwil to the Cistercian Kappel Abbey in Kappel am Albis. This...
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    Henauhof. Also part of Bad Buchau is the formerly independent district of Kappel. The official language is German, with day-to-day conversations by the majority...
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    Rüti Monastery (redirect from Ruti Abbey)
    three of the monks converted to Protestantism and died in the Battle of Kappel, three remained in Rüti, and Sebastian Hegner, the last conventual died...
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    of Kappel began, Reischach was reinstated in the service of the city, and the family moved back to Zürich. Eberhard fell in the battle of Kappel on 11...
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    most of the monks converted to the reformed faith. After the Second War of Kappel of 1531 the Catholic towns brought about the re-catholicisation of the monastery...
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    hegemony of the Catholics, that had been in existence ever since the Second Kappel Landfrieden of 1531. The casus belli was the expulsion and execution of...
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    in gaining the victory of the Catholics over the followers of Zwingli at Kappel am Albis in 1531; this victory saved the remaining possessions of the Catholic...
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  • the annexation by Bavaria. Marianne Antonia von Donop Princess-abbess of Käppel, deposed through the annexation by Nassau in 1803. King Giorgi XII, deposed...
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    in the Second War of Kappel in 1531 ended plans for a reformation of the entire Canton of Appenzell. After the Second War of Kappel, the two religions reached...
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    the second war of Kappel, Zwingli and many of its supporters were killed in 1531, among them former monks of the monasteries Kappel, Rheinau and Rüti...
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    abolition of the Mass in Appenzell. The Catholic victory in the Second War of Kappel in 1531 ended plans for a reformation of the entire canton of Appenzell...
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    the parties had failed to yield any results. First War of Kappel (1529) Second War of Kappel (1531) First War of Villmergen (1656) Sonderbund War (1847)...
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