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Gottstat Monastery is a former
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in the municipality of
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in the
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,
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.


Establishment

It was established in 1255 by Count Rudolf I von
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-Nidau. A previous attempt to establish a monastery on the site in 1247 there had been unsuccessful. The monastery church was built in 1300Gottstatt parish
accessed 16 August 2013 and was the burial church for the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau. After their line became extinct in 1375, the monastery was inherited by the Counts of Kyburg-Burgdorf until it was acquired by
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in 1388. Documents from 1295, 1309 and 1314 indicate that the monastery was a local pilgrimage site and expanded several times. A monastery school was in operation from the beginning. During the
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War of 1375 the monastery was attacked and heavily damaged by the Gugler knights. Shortly thereafter it was rebuilt. The last construction project on the monastery occurred during the tenure of the Abbot Konrad Meyer (1504–14). While the monastery owned a number of
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s, houses and farms along with rights in a number of
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es, politically it was fairly weak. None of the 22 known abbots was a nobleman.


Reformation

The monastery was closed in 1528 as part of the
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. From 1528 until 1798, the monastery building served as the seat of the
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and low court of Gottstatt. In 1803 the whole monastery building and compound was sold into private ownership. The
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began buying back the monastery, piece by piece, in 1965. Today it is the
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for the Orpund
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.


Teaching

Georg Simon Ohm Georg Simon Ohm (; ; 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his o ...
was a teacher there for some time.


Literature

* Doris Amacher und Bethi Blaser: Schweizerische Kunstführer GSK, Band 773: ''Die reformierte Kirche und das ehemalige Prämonstratenserkloster Gottstatt'', Bern 2005, *
Andreas Moser Andreas Moser (29 November 1859 – 7 October 1925) was a German musician, music pedagogue and musicologist. Early life and education Born in Zemun, Syrmia, Austrian Empire, Moser was the son of a winegrower and smoker from Upper Austria. As ...
: ''Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Bern Land III, Der Amtsbezirk Nidau 2. Teil,'' Herausgegeben von der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kunstgeschichte GSK, Bern 2005: ''Seiten 139-173 Orpund / Gottstatt'', * Helvetia Sacra ABTEILUNG IV: Die Orden mit Augustinerregel, Band 3: ''Die Prämonstratenser und Prämonstratenserinnen in der Schweiz'', bearbeitet von mehreren Autoren, redigiert von Bernard Andenmatten und Brigitte Degler-Spengler, Basel 2002. ''S. 383–410''. Autoren: Kathrin Utz Tremp, Georg Modestin. www.helvetiasacra.ch


References


External links

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Infos on the closter: Homepage reformed Church community, Orpund


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