Wine Market, Leather Market and Old Town Hall Square – with charming half-timbered houses and representative buildings: Gustav-Adolf House (former municipal tavern) Market Hall (both about 1600) today the Town Hall with festival rooms, ‘Deutsches Haus’, ‘Hezelhof’ and Old Town Hall (first mentioned as the “stainhaus” in a document of 1361).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Protestant Collegiate Church
The Romanesque church, predecessor of today’s three-naved Gothic basilica, was built and extended in 1383/4. A late Gothic canopy in…
Schillingsfürster hedgehog
What a bear is to a Berliner, a hedgehog (“Stupfl”) is to a Schillingsfürst resident. It is the unofficial heraldic…
St Michael’s Basilica
St Michael’s Basilica (about 1220) in Altenstadt; one of the most important Romanesque buildings in Old Bavaria.
Ballenhaus
Gothic ‘Ballenhaus’ (1419/1515): former Town Hall (up to 1902) with steep, stepped gable; council chamber with carved beamed ceiling.
Fairy-tale forest with game preserve
Between Schongau and Peiting, you will find fairy tale depictions and fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The park is…
Leutnantschanze
Nature on the ramparts: the Leutnantschanze and the Ziegelschanze are a reminder of Rain’s fortifications that were so important right…