Knigsfelden Monastery

Konigsfelden Monastery is a previous Franciscan twofold cloister, which housed both a network of Poor Clare nuns and one of Franciscan ministers, living in independent wings, in the region of Windisch in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It was established in 1308 by the Habsburgs. Over the span of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland in 1528 it was secularized, and the complex was then the habitation of the bailiffs of Bern.

Since 1868 the previous ascetic structures have filled in as a mental facility. The religious community church was changed over into a historical center in 2009. It contains a lot of fourteenth century recolored glass windows which, together with the windows in the Cathedral of Bern, are viewed as the most profitable in Switzerland. On May 1, 1308, King Albert I of Austria was killed by his nephew John Parricida in the network of Windisch.

In memory of this occasion his widow, Elizabeth of Carinthia, established the religious community around 1310-11 at the site, roughly 200 meters from Brugg. The ascetic complex based on the pensive existence of the nuns, while the little network of ministers watched out for both their otherworldly needs and that of the encompassing network. Albert and Elisabeth's most established little girl, Agnes of Austria, the widow of King Andrew III of Hungary, moved to Konigsfelden in 1317 and helped it to flourish, however did not join the religious community.