Hagenbuchwald

Hagenbuchwald is a forest in Saint Gallen, St. Gallen. Hagenbuchwald is situated nearby to the suburb Notkersegg, as well as near Neudorf.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abbey of Saint Gall and Abbey Library.

Abbey of Saint Gall

Monastery

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

The Abbey of Saint Gall is a dissolved abbey in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage.

Abbey Library

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Abbey library of St Gall is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural centres in Europe".

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Museum

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, is a Swiss art museum founded in 1877 and located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The museum holds a collection of paintings and sculptures spanning the late Middle Ages to the present.