Kind of doomscrolling in Tumblr and came across this building with the caption: Konvikt Kantonschule, by Otto Glaus, Hans-Rudolf Lienhard and Sep Marti (1969), Chur, Switzerland, ©Roberto Conte (2025)
A provincial school for convicts?
Off to Google Translate where I find that "Konvikt" in German means "boarding school / residential college / seminary." What a surprise. It's the second time that someone talked about "seminary" in the last few days. The other night, Chris Romanchock was talking about "A history of justice in Alfred" at the inaugural WEAVE evening at the Union University Church. He noted that Alfred University wasn't a university until later than its normal claim of being established in 1836 and one of the first coed colleges in the United States, that it was a Seventh-day Baptist seminary for the first couple decades. (I'm paraphrasing.) As far as I know, it wasn't a seminary in the sense of what we think of now since the university was never sectarian. It did eventually have a theological school, from which my father graduated.
We stayed in Chur on our Swiss circuit in 2007. Our room was on the top floor of the Hotel Freieck (literally free corner) in the middle of town. It was plenty warm overnight and the window of our room was open. You could hear the cow bells clanging (gently) from the nearby hillsides the next morning.
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