Say what you want, but doesn’t today’s Mystery Photo look sturdy? This building’s not going anywhere. Can you figure out what its function is, and where it is located? Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
In the last edition, only a few recognized the Museum der Stadt Fussen (Museum at Fussen) in Fussen, Germany. Among them were Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. Allen wrote:
“It’s a picture of the entrance to a museum of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint-Mang, located in the Old Town of Füssen, Germany (approximately 60-miles southwest of Munich in the Bavarian Alps region). The Benedictine Monastery was founded as a proprietary abbey of the Prince-Bishops of Augsburg in 850. The foundation was built upon a church that itself was built around 730 by a St. Gallen monk, Magnus of Füssen, otherwise known as Saint-Mang. His remains were found in the original church that he built, and he was later reburied in a crypt in the new basilica in 851. Over time however, pieces of his remains were redistributed throughout the region, and by the year 1100, all of his bones were found to be missing.
“Between 1696 and 1726, the original monastery was expanded into an enormous Baroque complex in the Old Town of Füssen. The transformation of the medieval basilica into a Baroque church was intended to be an architectural symbol of the veneration of Saint Magnus. Today, only a tiny splinter of a breast bone is located in a large glass cross hanging above the main altar. Ironically, it was received from his original birthplace of St. Gallen in Switzerland.”
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