page_title: Bellelay Abbey
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Bellelay Abbey / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Vue intérieure de l'abbatiale de Bellelay - peintures sur stuc
context_page_description: Bellelay Abbey is a former Premonstratensian monastery in the Bernese Jura in Switzerland, now a psychiatric clinic. It is a heritage site of national significance and the entire former Abbey complex is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
context_section_description: The present structure of the abbey church of the Assumption was built by Franz Beer on the Vorarlberg Baroque model between 1708 and 1714. The church has two towers on the west front which formerly had onion domes. The interior is decorated with painted stucco by the Wessobrunn School, created in 1713. The other monastery buildings in the Baroque style are also from the 18th century.
caption: Painting on stucco
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