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The St Gall Abbey Archives are now housed in the basement of the north wing of the government building on Klosterplatz (Klosterhof 1) and are thus located in the heart of the city of St Gall, with access from the railway station in about 7 minutes and from the surrounding multi-storey car parks in a few minutes.

They contain the legal documents and administrative records of the Abbey of St Gall from about the year 720 until its dissolution in 1805. The approximately 750 deeds of donation from the period from about 720 to 960 are particularly valuable. Almost 1000 hamlets, villages and towns in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France are thus recorded in writing for the first time in one or more deeds of the Abbey Archives St Gall. Equally precious are the almost 100 Carolingian and Ottonian rulers' diplomas. On the basis of notes on the back of the documents, archival activity can be proven for over 1200 years.

Due to their globally unique holdings, the Abbey Archives and Abbey Library of St Gall were included in UNESCO's Memory of the World list in 2017.