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Einsiedeln Abbey
Einsiedeln Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the canton of Schwyz, founded in 934 on the site where the hermit Saint Meinrad had lived. Its shrine of the Black Madonna made it one of the chief pilgrimage centres of Europe. A long dispute with Schwyz over pastures, the Marchenstreit, culminated in the Schwyzers' raid on the abbey in 1314, shortly before the Battle of Morgarten.
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