On Drăghici's recommendation, the state nationalized some monastery lands, shut down seminaries, and barred women under 50 from joining the nunneries.

However, feudalism had really been allowed to take root by the private control of these monastery lands.

In 1836, the canton appointed a trustee and sold the monastery lands.

After the Reformation in 1536, the monastery lands were appropriated by the state and the buildings were torn down.

The so-called "rural law", which granted monastery land to the peasants, was republished by Românul in 2,000 copies (about a third of the copies in circulation).

They remained there until 1543, when the monastery lands came under the control of the St. Elisabeth Gasthuis.

During the rest of the colonial period and through the 19th century, the church remained functioning, according to parish records, and still in possession of remaining monastery lands.

The city contains a number of parks, gardens and plazas, many of which were former monastery lands.

Eleven houses stood on monastery land in 1566.

He settled on a career in law, served at the Court of Augmentations, and made a fortune through speculation in former monastery lands.