Pfäfers Abbey
Pfäfers Abbey Kloster Pfäfers | |||||||||
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| 1408–1798 | |||||||||
The County of Sargans, shown in turquoise — with the Imperial Abbey of Pfäfers, of which the counts were Vögte, protectors — in the south of this map of what became the canton of St. Gallen | |||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire Condominium of the Old Swiss Confederacy | ||||||||
| Capital | Pfäfers Abbey | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded | before 740 1408 | ||||||||
• Gained right of free election | 840 | ||||||||
| 861 | |||||||||
| 1408 | |||||||||
| 1482–1798 | |||||||||
| 11 November 1798 | |||||||||
| 19 February 1803 | |||||||||
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Pfäfers Abbey (German: Kloster Pfäfers), also known as St. Pirminsberg from its position on a mountain, was a Benedictine monastery in Pfäfers near Bad Ragaz, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Situated at the junction of the Tamina and Rhine valleys, it flourished as a religious house and owner of lands and serfs, as well as assuming extraordinary importance as a political and cultural centre of the Chur–Raetian region.