Hospiz Sogn Gall des Klosters Disentis
Description
The wandering Benedictine monk Fr Placidus. A. Spescha worked here for a time (1752 - 1833). In the Middle Ages, hospices and hospitals were associated with the bishop's see and the monasteries as church welfare facilities for travellers, the sick and the poor. The bishop was responsible for accommodating travellers and those in need of help. Each bishop's residence had to have a specific room for this purpose. Special houses were built for the accommodation of strangers, called xenodochia, where the sick were also accommodated. The Disentis monastery also ran hostels for foreigners. There were even several on the Lukmanierweg.
The former Sogn Gall hospice has been preserved almost in its original form. The chapel "first mentioned in 1261" belongs to a hospice of the Disentis monastery, probably the oldest hospice of the monastery on this route. The building was built from scratch in 1668 and fitted with a stone wedge as an avalanche barrier. Based on the sources, the Sogn Gall hospice seems to have always been located beyond the path and stream. Placidus a Spescha wrote about it in 1803: "A short hour's walk [from Sogn Gions] on the other side of the Froda [Middle Rhine] stands the St. Gall Hospital. It is the property of the church of Disentis. Since the war [1799] it has been just as difficult to serve travellers as the hospital at St. Johann." (PIETH, HAGER 1913: 288f.)