The counts of Toggenburg ruled the Toggenburg region of today's canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and adjacent areas during the 13th to 15th centuries.
Image: Kraft von Toggenburg
Image: Rüti Kloster Kirche Toggenburgergruft 2011 01 17 14 41 34 Shift N
Image: Friderici VII Toggenburg
The Abbey of Saint Gall is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage. It became an independent principality between 9th and 13th centuries, and was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. The library of the Abbey is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world.
View of the former abbey
Abbey Cathedral of St. Gall
The interior of the cathedral is one of the most important baroque monuments in Switzerland
The Plan of St Gall, the only surviving major architectural drawing from the Early Middle Ages