page_title: Schussenried Abbey
section_title: Grounds and architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Schussenried Abbey / Grounds and architecture
caption_attribution_description: Bad Schussenried, Kloster Schussenried, östliches Treppenhaus des Neuen Klosters, Deckengemälde von Gottfried Bernhard Göz
context_page_description: Schussenried Abbey is a former Catholic monastery in Bad Schussenried, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is famed for its Baroque library hall. The abbey was established in the 12th century by the Premonstratensian Order and made an Imperial Abbey in the 15th century. The monastery sustained immense damage in the Thirty Years' War. In the 18th century, the abbey began expansions in the Baroque style, but was unable to complete them. The abbey was secularized in 1803 and twice awarded during the process of German Mediatization, eventually becoming a possession of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Its second king, William I, opened a foundry on its grounds, which was followed by a nursing home. These ceased operation or moved out of the monastery in the 1990s.
context_section_description: Schussenried Abbey is one of the main sights of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route.
  Originally, the monastery was divided into an inner area only for monks who had taken their vows, and a generally-accessible outer area. Both were enclosed by a wall and towers. Of those, only the Törle, the tower gate into the outer area, remains.
  Plans were made in the 18th century to expand and remodel the monastery in the Baroque style. The abbots of Schussenried Abbey regularly visited other Swabian monasteries for ideas for those buildings.
  "Old Monastery" refers to the pre-18th century structures (west and south wings, lower gate), and "New Monastery" to the Baroque buildings. Many more buildings were planned for the new monastery, but were not built because of deficient finances. One of those unbuilt buildings was to be a new church, to which the New Monastery would be centered around.
  The founding relic of Schussenried Abbey is a piece of the staff of Saint Magnus of Füssen. It is housed in a reliquary designed and produced by Georg Ignaz Baur.
  Premonstratensians from other Swabian monasteries who worked at Schussenried included Georg Anton Machein, who crafted choir stalls for the abbey.
caption: Ceiling painting in stairwell, New Monastery
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