Monastery Gottstatt

Monastery Gottstat is a former monastery "Prämonstratenser" in the Orpund community in Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

Establishment

It was established in 1255 by Count Rudolf I von Neuchâtel-Nidau. A previous attempt to establish a monastery on the site in 1247 there had been unsuccessful.

Reformation

The monastery was closed in 1528 as part of the Reformation. In 1803 the whole monastery building and compound was sold into private ownership. The reformed church began buying back the monastery, piece by piece, in 1965.

Teaching

Georg Simon Ohm 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, ISBN 3-85782-773-4
• Andreas Moser: 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, ISBN 978-3-906131-80-1
• 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

External links

• Gottstatt in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Infos on the closter: Homepage reformed Church community, Orpund
• Some pictures