The large entrance gate leads to the magnificent inner courtyard. Today the museum of the city of Füssen as well as the town hall and the administration buildings of the city are located in the vaults. The impressive Fürstensaal is also located within the walls. The monastery courtyard also forms a wonderful setting for festivals and concerts at the Christmas market. Attention: The gate will be closed at 10 p.m.!

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Siggi

June 11, 2020

Through the large entrance gate, you come into the magnificent courtyard. Today the museum of the city of Füssen is in the vaults, as well as the town hall and the administrative buildings of the city. The impressive Fürstensaal is also in the walls. The monastery courtyard also forms a fantastic backdrop for parties and concerts, including the Christmas market. Attention: the gate closes at 10 p.m.

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Juschu ( Jürgen & Vicky)

June 19, 2024

who likes churches has to go in

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Stephan N

July 20, 2020

Saint Magnus and the monastery of St. Mang, founded in his successor in the 9th century and named after him, have shaped the history of Füssen and the surrounding region for centuries. Füssen's patron saint, Magnus, probably came to the region from the Rhaeto-Romanic area in the 8th century. According to legend, Magnus founded a cell of monks on the banks of the Lech in Füssen, where the St. Mang monastery is today, and lived there until his death on September 6 (year of death 750 or 772 come into consideration). There are reports of numerous miracles of the saint that can be located in the region: e.g. jumping over the Lech Gorge (at today's Lechfall), ore miracles on the Säuling (Füssen's local mountain) and killing the dragon in the Tiefental near Roßhaupten.

The Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, founded about 100 years after his death around 840/850 on the initiative of the Bishop of Augsburg at the time, was the religious, cultural and economic center of the entire region for almost 1,000 years.

The baroque monastery that still exists today was built on medieval foundation walls as the third monastery building on the same site from 1701 to 1717 under the direction of the local master builder Johann Jakob Herkomer, the founder of the so-called Lechtaler Bauschule and architect of the Innsbruck Cathedral of St. Jakob. After the monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization, the former monastery church of St. Mang now serves as a catholic church. town parish church. The city administration and the Füssen Museum are housed in the adjoining monastery complex.
Source:
allgaeu.de/a-benediktinerkloster-st-mang

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Sopho, Micha, Frieda & Bella 🐶🐾

October 10, 2020

The Sankt Mang monastery is a former Benedictine monastery in Füssen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Joschi

February 27, 2021

In the footsteps of Saint Magnus, an Irish missionary from the 8th century

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HPT

February 3, 2019

The monastery of St. Mang is a former Benedictine monastery in Füssen. It was built in the 9th century by the diocese of Augsburg. In addition to ecclesiastical tasks, the monastery, located on the strategically important road to northern Italy, also served the economic interests of the Augsburg bishops. 1803, the monastery was dissolved and came in 1909 in the possession of the city of Füssen. Today are u.a. Town Hall and museum housed in it.

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June 10, 2020

The Sankt Mang monastery is a former Benedictine monastery and well worth seeing.

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Heiko Edelmann

June 12, 2020

Just one of the many beautiful places in Füssen - very worth seeing.

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Sapi

June 7, 2021

Beautiful organ in the parish of St. Mang.

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Hermine

July 13, 2021

After the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1803, the former monastery church of St. Mang serves today as a cath City parish church. The city administration and the Museum of Füssens are housed in the adjoining monastery complex.

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🇪🇺Raubach🇺🇦

December 22, 2019

Beautiful 😊

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Stephan N

July 3, 2020

Very beautiful church.
Can be visited from the inside.

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k-p-t

July 8, 2018

is located directly on the LechErlebnisWeg.

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Lars

October 7, 2018

Absolutely take a look inside and enjoy this great sight :)

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Sebastian

October 6, 2021

Very nice old monastery

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Five62

May 17, 2023

The view from the other side of the Lech is particularly worthwhile.

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Margarete

April 7, 2024

Inviting from the outside and inside

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🥾Hiking Dominic 🏞️

August 28, 2024

Beautiful baroque place of silence, basilica with adjacent monastery

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Stephan N

July 18, 2020

Very nice church and monastery located at the Hohen Schloss in Füssen.

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WanderBiene🐝

October 15, 2023

Opening times are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Mondays, which are closed days

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July 10, 2022

Sankt Mang Monastery, former Benedictine monastery in Füssen in Bavaria

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Sankt_Mang

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Moonbeam🌜

July 28, 2025

For centuries, the Benedictine abbey was an important religious, cultural, and economic center of the region—from the mid-9th century until its secularization in 1802. High above the picturesque banks of the Lech River rises the magnificent Baroque monastery complex, built at the beginning of the 18th century under the direction of the renowned architect Johann Jakob Herkomer.
Source: fuessen.de/en/infrastructures/pois/VIT/d2b5d552-9a47-4572-bd1b-e5d0a2fba206/kloster-st--mang

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Moonbeam🌜

August 4, 2025

The Füssen City Museum is located in the southern part of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Mang. This impressive monastery complex survived the secularization of 1803 and the crises of the 19th and 20th centuries largely unscathed. The significance of St. Mang Abbey lies in its conception as a Baroque Gesamtkunstwerk (complete work of art) and, at the same time, in the preserved remains of the more than 1,000-year-old medieval complex. St. Mang Abbey dates back to the Füssen ministry of St. Magnus around 750, making it one of the oldest monasteries north of the Alps.

The magnificent, symmetrically arranged Baroque complex was designed around 1700 by the local architect Johann Jakob Herkomer (1652-1717), who received his architectural training primarily in Venice. Thus, an Italianate style captivates the viewer.

The magnificent Baroque reception rooms of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Mang are open to the public.

The highlight of the complex is the richly stuccoed and frescoed banqueting hall, conceived as the "Imperial Hall." Its architectural form and furnishings served the abbey's political ambition to achieve imperial immediacy and become an imperial foundation.

The extraordinary oval structure of the monastery library forms the center of the south front, the castle-like front of the monastery. Inside, an opening provided a view down into the refectory, the monks' dining hall. This architectural device symbolizes the unity of spiritual and physical nourishment. "The entire monastery is remarkable for its architecture. The church, the refectory, the kitchen, everything deserves to be observed, and there is something extraordinary about the fact that such a beautiful building order was established on such a small, uneven site," reads the travelogue of a priest from Andechs from 1788.
Source: stadt-fuessen.de/Kultur/Museen-und-Kunst/Museum-der-Stadt

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