Kreuzlingen - Augustinian Convent

In the Hauptstrasse of Kreuzlingen is the former Augustinian convent (since 1844 occupied by the Thurgau teachers' training college) built by Michael Beer in 1640-53 to replace an earlier monastic house destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and remodeled in Baroque style in 1765. St Ulrich's church, well restored, together with the rest of the conventual buildings, after a fire in 1936, has notable ceiling frescoes, a fine organ and a grille by Jakob Hoffner (1737). A representation of the Agony in the Garden (in the north lateral chapel) preserves 280 of its original 322 figures (1720-40), and a large Gothic cross bears a figure of Christ with natural hair.