One of the few Baroque buildings in weiden, but a more impressive building, the so-called Waldsassener Kasten, 1739 built by frater philip muttone (1690-1775) as a cereal box for the monastery Waldsassen the surrounding weiden extensive possessions had been built. From 1803 to 1857 the building was the headquarter of the forest office , 1857 to 1966 the courthouse. After the monument more than 130 years had served as a prison, the city decided, the " Waldsassener box" for a cultural use. The building was bought by the state 1983 and realized in a first phase (1986-90) in the south wing of the Baroque square the International Ceramics Museum, was opened in 1991. The second phase (1991-94) included the rehabilitation of the north wing of the home as a new regional library, which on 21 October 1994 all Lesehungrigen for knowledge and its doors opened. Philip Muttone was an architect in the Upper Palatinate Stiftland (Landkreis Tirschenreuth) worked. Mutton was born 1699 as the son of an Italian architect and a baker's daughter from Waldsassen . He was from 1733 until his death in 1775, inter alia, builders and Construction of the monastery Waldsassen where he Frater or lay brother worked.