Kloster Königsfelden
5210 Windisch
Phone +41 (0)56 441 88 33
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Tel. +41 (0)62 767 60 11
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Queen Agnes and the conventFoundation and expansion of KönigsfeldenAfter the death of Elisabeth, her daughter Agnes began looking after the monastery, which was in the process of being built. Agnes, who was born in 1281, married Andreas III, King of Hungary, in 1298. Three years later Andreas died and Agnes became a widow. She had a house built next to the convent and resided as the queendowager and influential member of the Habsburg dynasty in Königsfelden until the age of 83. She was renowned as a generous patroness of the convent and as an intermediary and reigning monarch in the Habsburg territory. Agnes’s church treasures In making numerous donations, Agnes of Hungary ensured that the convent was on a financially sound footing. She was also influential in the church’s furnishing and iconographic programme. The central nave of the three-naved basilica was consecrated in 1320, the choir, ten years later. After the convent’s secularisation in 1528, a large part of the church treasures donated by Agnes was lost although a few valuable pieces eventually found their way to Bern. After her death numerous legends were attributed to Agnes. This influential lady, who had lived in Königsfelden for almost 50 years, will always be remembered as an outstanding personality. 
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