Competitions, Gala Concerts and Friendship Concerts
Originally, the Minoritensaal was the summer refectory of
the Minorite Monastery, thus, it was the dining room of the
friars. It was one of the Minorites’ most generous patrons,
Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg, who commissioned the Italian
architect Joachim Carlone to build the two-storey building in
the year 1691. On the front wall of the hall is a particularly
eye-catching monumental painting, the "Christ's Feeding of the
Multitude" (J. B. Raunacher, 1732).  The walls are covered with
stucco lustro marble paneling and paintings. The impressive
mirrored vault boasts splendid stucco work and frescoes by
Antonio Maderni. Above the main entrance is the pulpit, from
which the Holy Scripture was read to the friars while they ate,
so that both body and soul received sustenance.