Rüti Abbey
Rüti Abbey respectively the so-called Amt Rüti around 1740, as seen from the Schanz bulwark, the present Rüti Reformed Church is situated in the background.
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| Other names | Kloster Rüti; Prämonstratenserkloster Rüti; Kloster zu unserer lieben Frau; Kloster sancte Maria |
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Established | 1206 |
| Disestablished | 1525 during the Reformation in Zürich |
| Mother house | Weissenau Abbey |
| Diocese | Schwaben |
| Controlled churches | Rüti (1206–1525), Uster (1438–1525), and further 12 parish churches |
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| Founder(s) | Liutold IV von Regensberg |
| Abbot | list of Abbots 1206–1525 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | dissolved |
| Functional Status | Reformed church of the municipality of Rüti; municipal use as library, archives and so on (Amthaus); apartment buildings (Spitzerliegenschaft and former rectory) |
| Heritage designation | Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance |
| Site | |
| Location | Rüti, Canton of Zürich |
| Coordinates | 47°15′34″N 8°50′56″E / 47.2595°N 8.8490°E |
| Visible remains | church and three buildings |
| Public access | yes |
Rüti Abbey (Swiss German: Prämonstratenserkloster Rüti) was a former Premonstratensian abbey, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. The abbey's church was the final resting place of the Counts of Toggenburg, among them Count Friedrich VII and 13 other members of the Toggenburg family, and other noble families. Between 1206 and 1525, the abbey comprised 14 incorporated churches and the owner of extensive lands and estates at 185 localities.
In 1206 the estate for the abbey was given by Liutold IV, Count of Regensberg, and it was confirmed on 6 May 1219 by his brother, Eberhard, Archbishop of Salzburg. The church and rights were transferred by Rudolf I von Rapperswil and Diethelm of Toggenburg to the convent in 1229. On the upper Lake Zürich peninsula at Oberbollingen, a St. Nicholas Chapel is mentioned, where around 1229 a small Cistercian (later Premonstratensian) monastery was established by the Counts of Rapperswil. That nunnery is estimated to have been (administratively) part of the Rüti Abbey; in 1267 it was united with the nearby Mariazell Wurmsbach Abbey.
Initially founded as a branch of the Premonstratensian Abbey in Churwalden, Rüti Abbey, commonly known as Saint Mary abbey, was placed by the Bishop of Constance in 1230 to the Weissenau (Minderau) abbey and was part of the administrative district of Zirkaria Swabia. The construction of the abbey's cathedral started in 1214 and probably was finished in 1283. In 1286, for financial reason, the Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil had to sell her farm estate in Oberdürnten including the associated rights (in particular the lower courts) to the Rüti Abbey. But the House of Rapperswil also supported the Rüti abbey in the following decades, so Johann's I son, Johann II, assigned an estate and all rights in the name of his younger siblings on 17 June 1340.
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