The Abbey Library of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland | Library

Welcome to The Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
The Abbey Library of St. Gallen is the oldest library in Switzerland, and it is one of the earliest and most important monastic libraries in the world. Its extraordinary collection of books shows the development of European culture and documents the cultural achievements of the Abbey of St. Gallen from the eighth century to the dissolution of the monastery in 1805.
Several works of fundamental importance to the transmission of European intellectual thought have been preserved here. As a result, the Abbey Library and the entire abbey precinct in St. Gallen were included in the UNESCO list of global cultural heritage sites in 1983. At the core of the collection is the largely indigenous corpus of Carolingian and Ottonian manuscripts dating from the eighth to the eleventh centuries.
Today, the Catholic Administration (Katholische Konfessionsteil) of the State of St. Gallen owns The Abbey Library of St. Gallen. In addition to its role as a modern research library specializing in the medieval period, the Abbey Library is one of Switzerland's leading museums. Each year, some 100,000 visitors come from all over the world to view the exhibitions in the renowned Baroque Library, which is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful library buildings in the world.