Benediktinerkloster St. Mang
Former Benedictine abbey with a baroque church, museum and Bavaria's oldest surviving dance of death.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the former Benedictine abbey of St. Mang in Füssen follows Jakob Hiebeler, a local painter handed a grim commission by the abbot in the early sixteen hundreds. It lingers in the Saint Anne chapel, among twenty wooden panels where popes, peasants, witches and children are led off one by one. Stand inside the chapel so you can walk the line of panels as you listen.
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