Rüti, Zürich
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Rüti is a Swiss town and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich. The river Jona flows through the town.
Rüti, Zürich
The former Rüti Monastery in the late 17th century
Joweid Center, former Sulzer administration building
Rüti train station
Rüti Monastery
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Rüti Monastery was a former Premonstratensian monastery, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. The monastery's church was the final resting place of the Counts of Toggenburg, among them Count Friedrich VII and 13 other members of the Toggenburg family, and other noble families. Between 1206 and 1525, the monastery comprised 14 incorporated churches and the owner of extensive lands and estates at 185 localities.
Rüti Monastery respectively the so-called Amt Rüti around 1740, as seen from the Schanz bulwark, the present Rüti Reformed Church is situated in the background.
Amthaus and the former monastery's church
As seen from Bandwiesstrasse
The entrance hall of the former monastery's church where the burial vault of the Counts of Toggenburg was situated