Hospiz Sogn Gall des Klosters Disentis

Here was the wandering Benedictine monk Father Placidus. A. Spescha for a while. (1752 - 1833)

In the Middle Ages, the bishop's seat and monasteries were also associated with hospices and hospitals as church welfare institutions for travellers, the sick and the poor. The bishop was responsible for accommodating travellers and those in need of help. At each bishop's apartment there had to be a certain room for this purpose. Special houses were built for the accommodation of strangers, guest houses, xenodochias, in which the sick were also accommodated. The monastery of Disentis also maintained guest hostels. There were even several on Lukmanierweg.

The former hospice Sogn Gall 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 equipped with a stone wedge as an avalanche breaker.  Based on the sources, the hospice of Sogn Gall seems to have always been on the other side of the path and stream. Placidus a Spescha writes about it in 1803: "In a short hour's walk [from Sogn Gions] beyond the Froda [Middle Rhine] stands the Hospital St. Gall. It is the property of the church of Disentis. Since the war [1799] one can no more wait on the travellers than in the hospital at St. Johann." (PIETH, HAGER 1913: 288f.)