 Burkhard remained the monastery's "Vogt", and motivated the Abbot William to join with some monks from the Hirsau Abbey, to reform the monastery on the model of Hirsau.After more than four centuries of economic and political decline, Michael Eggendorfer, the last abbot of the monastery, initiated the last renovations in 1521/22.During the Reformation in Switzerland, the abbey was abolished, and the Cathedral became the second main city church in 1524.