Einsiedeln

Einsiedeln is a municipality and district inside the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland regarded for its monastery, the Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey, established in the tenth century. There was no everlasting settlement within the place previous to the early medieval period, however severa artefacts left by means of prehistoric hunters, dated to the Mesolithic to Bronze Age had been recovered. The unique "hermitage" is associated with St. Meinrad, a Benedictine monk circle of relatives of the Counts of Hohenzollern. According to legend, Meinrad lived at the slopes of Mt. Etzel from 835 until his dying in 861.

During the following eighty years Saint Meinrad's hermitage become by no means without one or greater hermits emulating his instance. One of the hermits, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strasburg, erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot. Work on the monastery is said to have began in 934. Following a staggering vision by Eberhard, the brand new church become dedicated to the Virgin Mary. At the time of the inspiration of the Abbey, the nearby hunters and small farmers of the woodland, placed themselves under the authority of the noble-born Abbot. You can come here and explore this place.