Under the Republic and the new Canton they lost many of their farms and were sometimes forced to billet troops .
Following the 1798 French invasion , the creation of the Helvetic Republic and then the Canton of St. Gallen in 1803 , the Abbey went into decline .
Under the Helvetic Republic and the new Canton they lost many of their farms and were sometimes forced to billet troops .
Following the 1798 French invasion , the creation of the Helvetic Republic and then the Canton of St. Gallen in 1803 , the Abbey went into decline .