Windisch

Windisch is a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Windisch grew right into a regional strength following the inspiration of Konigsfelden Abbey in 1309 in reminiscence of the regicide of King Albert I of Germany within the previous year. Albert turned into on the manner to suppress a riot in Swabia when he turned into murdered on May 1, 1308, near Windisch on the Reuss, through his nephew John of Swabi, afterwards called "the Parricide" or "John Parricida", whom he had deprived of his inheritance.After the inspiration of the Abbey, the village become located underneath the authority of the Abbey.

Starting in 1348 the rights to excessive and occasional justice were held via Agnes of Hungary. In 1411 the ones rights transferred lower back to the monastery. The abbey church, likely in antiquity underneath the patronage of St. Martin however in the Middle Ages under the patronage of Mary, is constructed at the site of the 6th Century Bishop's church. The present constructing, with a past due-Romanesque nave and Gothic choir, changed into constructed between 1310-30. The church's charnel residence become rebuilt in 1793 right into a schoolhouse. You can come here and explore this place.