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Magdenau Abbey and the Abbey Neu St. Johann. Zurich supported Toggenburg's attempts at freedom, which in truth circled around the inner constitution of Toggenburg, time and again, which led to the outbreak of war in 1712. The abbatial city of Wil was captured by the allied people of Zurich, Bern and Toggenburg, whereupon Abbot Leodegar fled, accompanied by his convent, from Rorschach into exile: first to Mehrerau and then to Castle Neu-Ravensburg, the centre of administration of a Saint Gall dominion north of Lindau. For the intervening time, he installed a
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