Harburg Castle (12th – 19th centuries): large castle complex; walls with battlements and six towers, bailey and gates; main castle with keep (12th – 13th centuries), ‘Kastenhaus’ (1594) with stables and armoury, ‘Saalbau’ with banqueting hall (stuccowork in 1719), ‘Fürstenbau’ and St. Michael’s Chapel (stuccowork in 1719).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Parish Church of St Kilian
Romanesque/early Gothic Parish Church of St Kilian with 13th century tombstones and Hospital Church (17th century), Copyright Stadt Röttingen
Premonstratensian monastery
Former Premonstratensian monastery with the Baroque Church of the ‘Holy Cross’ (1723-30), three-aisle colonnaded basilica, choir and dome room in…
Kittsteintor
Kittstein Gate The view from the Kittstein Gate towards the Collegiate Church and the castle is one of the best-known…
Echelsbach Bridge
Echelsbach Bridge (1929) crossing the 76 m deep Ammer Gorge. Wonderful countryside against the backdrop of the Bavarian Alps with…
Schongau town wall
Largely intact town walls (oldest parts date back to the 13th and 15th – 17th centuries), in places with traversable…
Gotic Church of Our Lord
Gotic Church of Our Lord with altar to the Virgin Mary (1505-10) by Tilman Riemenschneider, late Gothic High Altar (14th…