page_title: Rüti, Zürich
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rüti, Zürich / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das Kloster Rüti vor dem Brand von 1706
context_page_description: Rüti is a Swiss town and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich. The river Jona flows through the town.
context_section_description: In 807, Rüti's quarter Fägswil was first mentioned in a document of the Abbey of Saint Gall. In a document of the German Emperor Otto II (972), the municipality was described as Riutun, the Old High German word for Roden (= to convert forest into farmland), and later forwarded to the name of Rüti. In 1206 the Rüti Monastery was given by Liutold IV, Duke of Regensberg, and the present Reformed church was completed to 1283. In 1408 Rüti and the Premonstratensian monastery came as part of the so-called Herrschaft Grüningen under the reign of the government of the city of Zürich. In 1525 (Reformation in Zürich) the monastery was secularized and managed as Amt Rüti by an Amtmann (member of the city of Zürich government) until 1798.
  In mid 16th century, Rüti got one of the first public schools in the canton of Zürich, established by the Zürich reformers and the former monks of the Rüti Monastery. In 1866, the first Catholic Mass in the Zürcher Oberland was celebrated after the Reformation; in Tann ZH (politically part of the municipality Dürnten), the Catholic parish church was built in 1963.
caption: The former Rüti Monastery in the late 17th century
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