1500s Banqueting Hall, St. George's Abbey Museum, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland

The Banqueting Hall was commissioned by David von Winkelsheim (1499-1525), the last Abbot of Saint George's. The mostly secular nature of the room's colorful historical frescos saved them from the iconoclasm of the Reformation in 1525. St. George's Abbey (Kloster Sankt Georgen) was founded around 1007 as a Benedictine monastery in Stein am Rhein village, on the banks of the Rhine at the western end of Lake Constance. The fascinating Klostermuseum is one of Switzerland's most important historic buildings from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, built in the 1300s to 1500s.

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The Banqueting Hall was commissioned by David von Winkelsheim (1499-1525), the last Abbot of Saint George's. The mostly secular nature of the room's colorful historical frescos saved them from the iconoclasm of the Reformation in 1525. St. George's Abbey (Kloster Sankt Georgen) was founded around 1007 as a Benedictine monastery in Stein am Rhein village, on the banks of the Rhine at the western end of Lake Constance. The fascinating Klostermuseum is one of Switzerland's most important historic buildings from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, built in the 1300s to 1500s.