The Library Hall is two stories tall, with walls lined with largely decorative bookcases, some containing fold-out desks.
The ceiling fresco, by Franz Georg Hermann, depicts in 14 scenes the advance of wisdom and the sciences from the time of the Old Testament to 1757, when the fresco was completed.
Examples are Hermann of Reichenau with a globe, beneath Caspar Mohr, a Premonstratensian monk and polymath who tried to fly with constructed wings, and the meeting of Louis XIV of France and Nikolaus Wierith, the abbot of Marchtal Abbey, whom Louis dubbed "Solomon II".
The sculptures were finished in 1766 by Fidelis Sporer.

After the secularization of the abbey, the Library Hall became a church and concert hall.
An organ was installed in the hall at the end of the 19th century.

One of the rooms in the Library Hall is a gallery, the Four Elements, which depict the four elements via four scientific tools and eight techniques of the 18th century.
Earth is represented by a globe, water by buckets, wheels, and pulleys, and mills, fire by the use of a mirror and sunlight to burn wood, and air by Neptune wielding a trident.
The Library Hall is two stories tall, with walls lined with largely decorative bookcases, some containing fold-out desks. The ceiling fresco, by Franz Georg Hermann, depicts in 14 scenes the advance of wisdom and the sciences from the time of the Old Testament to 1757, when the fresco was completed. Examples are Hermann of Reichenau with a globe, beneath Caspar Mohr, a Premonstratensian monk and polymath who tried to fly with constructed wings, and the meeting of Louis XIV of France and Nikolaus Wierith, the abbot of Marchtal Abbey, whom Louis dubbed "Solomon II". The sculptures were finished in 1766 by Fidelis Sporer.
After the secularization of the abbey, the Library Hall became a church and concert hall. An organ was installed in the hall at the end of the 19th century.
One of the rooms in the Library Hall is a gallery, the Four Elements, which depict the four elements via four scientific tools and eight techniques of the 18th century. Earth is represented by a globe, water by buckets, wheels, and pulleys, and mills, fire by the use of a mirror and sunlight to burn wood, and air by Neptune wielding a trident.
Schussenried Abbey