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Rüegsau Abbey

Canton of Berne, Switzerland · built 1101

Rüegsau Priory (possibly Rüegsau Abbey towards the end of its existence) (Kloster Rüegsau) was a 12th-century Swiss monastery of Benedictine nuns in Rüegsau, in the Canton of Bern. It was dissolved in 1528 as a result of the Reformation in Switzerland.

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