Fussen - St Mang Abbey

At the foot of the castle hill in Füssen is the Benedictine abbey of St Mang (founded 728), with a Baroque church (by J. J. Herkomer, 1701-17). There are an old tower and a crypt, with wall paintings of the Reichenau school (c. 980), both dating from the 10th-11th centuries. The conventual buildings are now occupied by municipal offices and the Municipal Museum (history of the monastery; lute and violin-making in Füssen). There are fine state apartments (Banqueting Hall, Library, Papal Apartments), and in the adjoining St Anne's Chapel can be seen a Danse Macabre by Jakob Hiebeler (1602).