Museum of the city of Füssen
& state painting collection
Use your stay in Füssen for the visit of the two emblems of the
town.
The
former Benedictine cloister St. Mang and the just as impressive high castle to
Füssen which sits enthroned over the roofs of the old town.
Both places are also the guardians of the cultural
treasures of the town.
Museum of the city of Füssen
The imposing baroque Vierflügelanlage of the former
Benedictine cloister St. Mang which rises highly over the Lech shore, is the
museum of the city of Füssen, baroque halls the Füssener dance of death as old
decorated splendidly in this next to this one still to see received dance of
death cycle in Bavaria housed today.One of the Europe-wide most beautiful
collections of historical lutes and violins reminds of the meaning Füssens as a
cradle of the European lute making and violin making centre of the 18th century.
The oldest fresco got in Bavaria houses the basilica of St. Mang, once the
monastery church of the Benedictines in the east crypt and an architectural
example was St. Jakob for the Innsbruck cathedral.
Branch office gallery of the Bavarian state painting collections
The high lock rises, one of the late Gothic castle complexes in Swabia and
with unique late medieval illusion paintings at the court façades equipped on a
mountain spur over the old town.
In the former dwellings of the prince
bishops of Augsburg, who used the Fuessener high castle as his summer residence,
today a branch office gallery of the Bavarian state painting collections is
accommodated, which shows works of art from late gothic and
Renaissance.
