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| The Convent
of St.Gall was included by UNESCO in The
World Heritage List in 1983. This site is within
walking distance (some 1200 m) of the SASRO 2000 Congress
location. On Friday evening we shall meet at 6.30 p.m.
for an apéritif in the "Lapidarium"
in the basement of the Abbey building. After an
introduction participants will be able to enjoy a guided
visit of the world famous Baroque
Room of the Abbey Library in small groups. Following
this we shall walk to the Restaurant "Schlössli am
Spisertor" for the conference dinner (there is
only a limited number of places : you are ecouraged to
register at your earliest convenience). As the restaurant's web page is in German only, a short abstract is provided here in English : The house was built during 1586-1590 for Junker (squire) Laurenz Zollikofer-Zili; it was carefully restored in 1968/69 and put under protection by the Swiss Federation. The Zollikofer have played an important role in St.Gallen's history over the centuries : e.g. Laurenz' mother, Dorothea von Watt, had been Vadian's only daughter (Joachim von Watt, known as Vadian, was the City Mayor and Reformer of St.Gallen; his library formed the basis of "Vadiana", todays cantonal library). One of the more famous guests in this house was Duke Henri de Rohan, when he travelled (with his army of 6'000 soldiers) from Alsace to Grisons in 1635, on his way to free Valtellina from the Austrian and Spanish troups. The "Stein der Freiheit" (Stone of Freedom) is dated 1587 - but the story starts much earlier : In medieval times the church had been fighting against blood feud, quite common then in Europe as well. As one of their measures they granted sanctuary to people who managed to flee into the abbey's precinct, which used to be enclosed by the city wall common to city and abbey precinct. In 1566 it was agreed in the contract of Wil to build a wall between abbey precinct and city, which was finished in 1567; also agreed in the contract of Wil was that the city would be allowed to set up their own sanctuary. Finally in 1587 the "right of freedom", basis for the sanctuary, was officially granted by Emperor Rudolf II; 4 stones marked the small area of the sanctuary - only one is still at the original location, the one depicted here. |
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