Simeonstift

Adjoining the Porta Nigra is the 11th century Simeons's College (Simeonstift), residence of priests who read mass in the two churches of St. Simeon (Porta Nigra). The building has a unique two-storied cloister around the courtyard (Brunnenhof) and contains today a restaurant and the Municipal Musum (fee) with the Coptic, medieval, and early modern collections; some statues are exhibited in the south wing of the cloister (upper story), whose floor still rests on the original oak beam floor from 1060.