Editing Abbey of Saint Gall (section)

====End of the Prince-Abbots====
Following the disturbances, the abbey was still the largest religious city-state in Switzerland, with over 77,000 inhabitants.<ref>{{HDS|9921|Religious/Secular Land Holders}}</ref> A final attempt to expand the abbey resulted in the demolition of most of the medieval monastery. The new structures, including the cathedral by architect Peter Thumb (1681–1766),<ref>Hempel, Eberhard. 1965. Baroque art and architecture in central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. Painting and sculpture: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; architecture: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Baltimore: Penguin Books, p. 163.</ref> were designed in the late [[Baroque]] style and constructed between 1755 and 1768. The large and ornate new abbey did not remain a monastery for very long. In 1798 the Prince-Abbot's secular power (the last to hold the title was [[Pankraz Vorster]]) was suppressed, and the abbey was [[German Mediatisation|secularized]]. The monks were driven out and moved into other abbeys. The abbey became a separate [[Episcopal see|See]] in 1846, with the abbey church as its cathedral and a portion of the monastic buildings for the [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishop]].