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Beromünster until 1934 Münster, Swiss German Möischter is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It belongs to the Sursee constituency. Beromünster is located in the upper part of the Wynental and is traversed by the Wyna. Except for small areas on the banks of the Wyna and part of the Wiholz ​​forest in the south of the village, the entire municipal area has been cleared. Of the entire municipal area, 65.2% is agricultural land, 25.4% is residential area and only 9.1% is forest and wood. The formerly independent municipality of Schwarzenbach (662 m above sea level) M.; 3.2 km north-northeast of Beromünster) formed since the unification with Beromünster on 1. September 2004 and until the merger with Gunzwil on 1. January 2009 an exclave. The village lies on the northern foothills of the Erlosen between Wynental and Seetal. The eastern slope of the Erlosen in the direction of the Seetal is still partly heavily forested. South-southeast of the village is the Hohwacht hill, which is 691 m above sea level. M. forms the highest point of the municipality. In addition to the actual village, there are the hamlets of Lüsch (in the north), Grüt (in the north-east) and the group of houses Rüti (in the south-south-east). The Schwarzenbach rises west of Beromünster and after a short run flows into the Wyna. Beromünster borders on the communities of Eich, Ermensee, Geuensee, Hildisrieden, Hitzkirch, Rickenbach LU, Römerswil (Herlisberg district), Schenkon and Sempach in the canton of Lucerne, as well as on the communities of Beinwil am See and Menziken in the canton of Aargau. In the Old Confederation, the term Münster im Aargau was used until the end of the 18th century. Century common to distinguish. Until 1934 the municipality was officially called Münster. After the construction of the Beromünster state transmitter (1931), the town was renamed Beromünster to distinguish it from the Münster MW station in Westphalia on the radio transmitter scale. If the municipality had not agreed to the name change, the state transmitter located in the municipality of Gunzwil would have been named after the nearby town of Sursee. The monastery in Beromünster, which is located in the village and which, according to legend, was built by Count Bero von Lenzburg in memory of his son Adalbert, who died in a duel with a bear, gave it its name. The political communities of Beromünster, Gunzwil, Neudorf and Schwarzenbach were formed in the area of ​​the Canons' Monastery. The merger of the municipalities in 2004 and 2009 resulted in today's municipality of Beromünster with the districts of Beromünster, Gunzwil, Neudorf and Schwarzenbach. On the night of the 12th On March 17, 1764, the so-called Fläckenbrand destroyed 86 residential and commercial buildings as well as six barns. Around 360 people became homeless. Just a few days after the fire, the destroyed town center was surveyed and new plans for reconstruction were prepared. It was rebuilt within four years and has remained largely unchanged to this day. The collegiate monastery, which was newly founded in 1036 by the Counts of Lenzburg[11] and still exists today, possessed an extraordinary density of secular and ecclesiastical rights until 1798 and was considered one of the richest ecclesiastical dominions on Swiss territory. A few key words about its cultural wealth: the school, first mentioned in 1226, the first dated Swiss book printing in 1470 and a rich collection of music with works written especially for the monastery from the Middle Ages to the Classical period. In 1415 the city of Lucerne took over the imperial fiefdom of the Kast- or Schirmvogtei and in 1420 acquired the area belonging to the manor, the so-called Michelsamt. The local rule was only incompletely integrated into the state rule. In addition to its dominant position as landlord, the monastery also owned the lower court, i.e. twing and ban, in this territorially almost closed area. At the same time, it was the sole tithe over the incorporated parishes. As the actual "rule within the rulership", the provost in Beromünster exercised not only police and military functions but also high jurisdiction. In the Michelsamt bailiff's office, he shared this task and income with the municipal bailiff. The Michelsamt was neither the largest nor the most lucrative Lucerne bailiff. Nevertheless, the monastery was particularly important for the Lucerne authorities: On the one hand, it was an important outpost of the Catholic state because of its exposed location on the border to Bernese Aargau, which after the Reformation had a different faith. In addition, the monastery played an important role in terms of political power. In this Michel velvet, the provost embodied authority, because Lucerne was far away and the city bailiffs were seldom present. The provost was responsible for military organization. He appointed the pastors and - in the Reformed areas - the preachers in the name of the monastery. Through its landlordship, the monastery was the largest land and forest owner in the Michelsamt, almost everyone in the town or in the villages received a house and farm as a fief from the hands of the provost.
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