Hospiz Sogn Gall des Klosters Disentis

The wandering Benedictine monk Father Placidus. A. Spescha worked here for a while. (1752 - 1833)

In the Middle Ages, hospices and hospitals were also associated with the bishop's seat and the monasteries as an ecclesiastical welfare institution for travelers, the sick and the poor. The bishop was responsible for accommodating travellers and those in need. For each bishop's apartment, there had to be a certain room for this. For the accommodation of strangers, special houses were built, tourist houses, xenodochi, in which even the sick were accommodated. The monastery of Disentis also maintained hostels for foreigners. 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 monastery of Disentis, 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 always seems to have been beyond the path and stream. Placidus a Spescha wrote 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] you can't wait for the traveler any more than in the hospital in St. Johann." (PIETH, HAGER 1913: 288f.)