Klosterkirche Königsfelden
5210 Windisch
Phone +41 (0)56 441 88 33
Museum Argovia
Tel. +41 (0)62 767 60 11
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HistoryThe Königsfelden Convent Church is not far from the Habsburg family’s original fortress; amidst the Roman ruins of Vindonissa. It is, as a building comemorating the Habsburgs, an important piece of the family history of the House of Habsburg. The murder of King Albert I by his nephew Duke John of Swabia on 1 May 1308, near the place to cross the River Reuss at Windisch, prompted the foundation of the convent. The royal widow Elisabeth inaugurated a monastic foundation for the salvation of the murdered husband’s soul. It was given the name Königsfelden by the Habsburgs themselves.It is unusual for an establishment belonging to a mendicant order to be located outside a town, which explains the rare concept of combining a monastery for Franciscan monks and a convent for Poor Clares in a double foundation. In 1311 the first six monks settled, and the nuns followed a year later. It was the convent with its privileges which enjoyed primacy right from the start. After the founder’s death in 1313, her daughter Agnes, early widowed Queen of Hungary, took the convent under her protection. Most probably she was the driving force behind the construction of the church and the creation of the sequence of windows. After her death in 1364 a gradual decline set in. When Aargau was conquered by Berne in 1415, the link with the House of Habsburg was broken; in 1528, in the wake of the Reformation, Berne secularized the convent, which was in the process of dissolving itself, and used the buildings as the headquarters of the bailiwick (Landvogtei) and a manor farm. In 1804 the recently founded Canton of Aargau established its clinic and hospital (now a psychiatric clinic, website in German) in the premises. 
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Klosterkirche Königsfelden
5210 Windisch Phone +41 (0)56 441 88 33 Museum Argovia Tel. +41 (0)62 767 60 11 Opening Hours
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