Kleinlützel Abbey
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Kleinlützel Abbey was a small religious house at Kleinlützel (French Petit-Lucelle), a community in the district of Thierstein in the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
[edit] History
In 1136 a small Cistercian nunnery was founded, near the present "Klösterli", as a daughter house of Lützel Abbey (Lucella), known as Minor Lucella and subordinate to the abbot of the mother house. However, before the end of the 12th century it had been transferred to the Augustinian Canons. In 1486 it became an Augustinian nunnery. It suffered serious damage during the Swabian War (1499) and in the peasant disturbances of the 16th century.
The chapel and some of the service buildings still remain.
[edit] References
- Brunner, Johann, 1972. Kleinlützel. Breitenbach.
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