The permanent exhibition "Monks and Scholars" (Mönche und Scholaren) informs monastery visitors on the sensational complex of finds from 1958, when a hotchpotch of different everyday objects was found in the hollow cavities of the vault caps of the eastern cloister wing during restoration work. In addition to household goods and tiles, many of the objects found originate from the everyday life of the school children who attended the Protestant monastery school housed in the monastery in the 16th century.
These objects, which lay hidden beneath the floors for hundreds of years, include a linen school bag, ink wells, a game of three stones in a row on the back of a small snack board, playing chips made of bone and numerous lines given as punishment, letters and caricatures. The drawings not only show the mockery of pupils, but also provide information on the clothing of the late Middle Ages
These impressions are also rounded off by original preserved clothing. This includes a hat, three shirts and a doublet, as well as a pair of trousers in the "form of tights". These pieces of clothing are almost the only textiles of the kind in Germany from the period of the late Middle Ages. The shoes found serve as proof of the change in shoe fashion at the threshold between the epochal transition from the 15th to the 16th century. The pointed peasants' boots are replaced by the broad "cow's mouth shoes" (Kuhmaulschuhe).
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The permanent exhibition finds a suitable setting in the elaborately restored former abbot's apartment in the West Building (Westbau) of the Enclosure (Klausur), in which the appointments of the late Middle Ages have been restored. Today the High Gothic rooms again present their rich stuccowork and painted decors.