Füssen

Monastery St. Mang

Former Benedictine Monastery of St. Mang (1701 – 1717): the present baroque buildings were constructed on medieval foundations. In the Magnuskrypta (Crypt of St. Magnus), which lies beneath the monastery church, the oldest remaining fresco in Bavaria (around 980 – Reichenau School) can be seen. The monastery buildings house Füssen’s Heritage Museum with information about the history of the monastery: the richly decorated baroque halls in the monastery, one of Europe’s finest collections of historical lutes and violins, a section on King Ludwig II, as well as the oldest extant Bavarian ‘Dance of Death’, can all be admired here. Opening times: as for the gallery of the Bavarian State Collection (see above), Copyright Füssen Tourismus und Marketing/Rainer Paulick

Monastery St. Mang
Lechhalde 3
87629 Füssen

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Old Schranne

Impressive commercial buildings: ‘Hallgebäude’ (1541-43), ‘Alte Schranne’ (1601/02), ‘Klösterle’ (about 1420) with attractive portal (1586); former monastery of unshod monks,…