Museum der Stadt Füssen
Museum der Stadt Füssen occupies part of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang in Füssen, Bavaria. The baroque complex, planned around 1700 by Johann Jakob Herkomer, frames exhibitions on the city, the monastery and local craftsmanship.
Füssen’s lute-making tradition takes centre stage: the first European lute-makers’ guild formed here in 1562, while surrounding forests supplied spruce, maple and yew. You can see instruments including a mid-sixteenth-century lute by Wolfgang Wolff, alongside the German Lute Society archive and displays on rope-making and nativity scenes. The Kaisersaal presents stucco and frescoes, while the oval library overlooks the monks’ refectory.
In the Annakapelle, Jakob Hiebeler’s Füssen Dance of Death from 1602 unfolds across ten wooden panels and twenty scenes. Popes, emperors, children and artists all appear in the procession, making this the oldest surviving Dance of Death in Bavaria.
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