- Peterlingen Priory
Peterlingen Abbey or Priory was a
Cluniac monastery at Peterlingen, nowPayerne , inLausanne ,Switzerland .It was founded in the 10th century by Queen
Bertha of Burgundy and was a very early priory of theAbbey of Cluny , from 962.The reforming Cluniac, Saint
Ulrich of Zell , was prior here in the later 11th century. In the 14th century it began a long decline, which could not be reversed even when it was raised to the status of an abbey by theantipope Felix V .During the
Reformation the abbey was dissolved. Some of the buildings were demolished, the remainder put to various secular uses: a bell foundry in the 17th century, a grain store in the 18th and later as a prison and barracks.
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