Vindonissa Museum

Quiz Tour

Price Included in admission 0 Trough the museum with the treasure map Our archaeologist on duty, Walter Scatterbrain, has been dreaming of grand palaces and glittering treasure again. He forgot where

 
Vindonissa Museum

Permanent exhibition on Vindonissa

Admission: Museum entrance fee Discover original objects from excavations! How did the Romans live 2,000 years ago on the territory of present-day Switzerland? What did they eat? What weapons and clot

 
Wettingen Abbey

Observatory

Permanent exhibition Admission Museum entrance fee Take a journey through the history of knowledge and belief At the Observatory, take a journey through the history of knowledge and belief in a cinema

 
Wettingen Abbey

Medicinal garden

Admission Free of charge Tradition of monastic healing Today, medicinal herbs, spices, flowers and also certain vegetables grow in the medicinal garden of Wettingen Abbey. The garden showcases the lon

 
Wettingen Abbey

Cloister garden

Admission Museum entrance fee Idyllic garden in the heart of the abbey complex Experience a special monastic atmosphere in the cloister garden of Wettingen Abbey: the idyllic garden with its meadow, y

 
Wettingen Abbey

Convent garden

Admission Free of charge English park, kitchen garden and plane tree avenue Discover secluded spots in the convent garden of Wettingen Abbey and stroll through the historic kitchen garden. A walk thro

 
Wettingen Abbey

Abbot's house

Permanent exhibition Admission Entrance free 0 Stately summer residence The stately abbot's house is situated to the south-west of the abbey, near the river Limmat. You can reach it by walking from th

 
Wettingen Abbey

Abbot's garden

Admission Free of charge Stately summer residence of the head of the abbey Stroll through the abbot's garden at Wettingen Abbey, and imagine how the abbot once received his guests here. The garden ext

 
Wildegg Castle

Living history museum and ancestral portrait gallery

Permanent exhibition Admission Museum entrance fee Former castle residents are waiting to chat with visitors! Wildegg Castle is the castle of talking portraits: in the ancestral portrait gallery and t

 
Wildegg Castle

Rose garden

Rose garden Admission Entrance free A major attraction for rose lovers The rose garden of Wildegg Castle is a major attraction for rose lovers. Numerous historical roses with rose arches, as well as E

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Kreuzgang im Kloster Wettingen, das Licht wirft durch die Fenster lange Schatten in den Gang.
Kreuzgang im Kloster Wettingen, das Licht wirft durch die Fenster lange Schatten in den Gang.

Exhibition

Cloister

The well-preserved cloister, with its Romanesque and Gothic tracery, evokes the tranquillity that once characterised life within these walls. Small gravestones of monks buried here are set into the flagstone floor. At the heart of the cloister lies the idyllic cloister garden.

The cycle of stained-glass windows in the cloister is particularly valuable. Private donors, friendly abbeys and the Swiss cantons have all donated these significant cabinet windows to Wettingen Abbey. The earliest examples date back to the 13th century.

Cloister Chapel with the Wettingen Christ Child

Above the altar of the Cloister Chapel hangs the sacred image of the "Wettingen Christ Child". The wooden painting miraculously survived the devastating abbey fire on White Sunday in 1507. The monks saw this as a sign from heaven. The "Christ Child", marked by burn holes, has been venerated ever since.

Impressions

Kreuzgang im Kloster Wettingen, das Licht wirft durch die Fenster lange Schatten in den Gang.
Nahaufnahme eines Fensters im Kreuzgang des Klosters Wettingen, im Zentrum zwei Kabinettscheiben des Glasfensterzyklus'.
Frontaler Blick auf Glasfenster im Kreuzgang des Kloster Wettingen. In der Mitte führt ein grosser Durchgang in den dahinterliegenden Kreuzganggarten.
Kreuzgang im Kloster Wettingen, das Licht wirft durch die Fenster lange Schatten in den Gang.
Mystische Stimmung im Kreuzgang des Klosters Wettingen. Ein Mädchen streckt im Gegenlicht der Sonne die Hand nach den Glasfenstern aus.