St. Johannes Baptist
Romanesque twin-towered abbey church with a Rococo nave, Welf tombs and a Renaissance-painted porch.
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This guide to St. Johannes Baptist, the Welfenmünster in Steingaden near Füssen, starts in the entrance hall, with a painted funeral procession for a medieval duke. It follows the Welf dynasty that founded the abbey, the peasants' revolt of fifteen twenty-five, and a Renaissance wall painting from around sixteen hundred with an unusual history of its own. Best heard standing in the vaulted porch, facing the north wall.
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