The common bedroom of the monks in the monastery, later also in the castles of the Teutonic Knights. It was located above the chapter house. The stairs on the first floor of the bedroom led to the ground floor, right at the entrance to the church. So, immediately after waking, monks were going to church for praying and singing. The beds were partitioned with low wooden walls. The habit of together sleeping liquidate the Pope Benedict XII in the first half of the fourteenth century. Later dormitories were replaced with cells.
