Below the parish church on the east side of the Kirchberg is the most important grotto complex in southern Germany, a replica of the Lourdes cave with cave-like passages. It was built in 1908 from limestone tuff from the Ammer gorge.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Frauenbrünnerl Pilgrimage Chapel
Frauenbrünnerl Pilgrimage Chapel (1708): small octagonal building with Madonna (14th century).
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes documents over 500 years of liturgical chalices and monstrances, Copyright Holger Schmitt
Collegiate Church
Collegiate Church (13th / 14th century): replaced the Romanesque monastery church with Gothic choir, Altar to the Virgin Mary (1483)…
Old town fortifications
Remains of the old town fortifications with towers (water tower, wooden battlements).
Schongau town wall
Largely intact town walls (oldest parts date back to the 13th and 15th – 17th centuries), in places with traversable…
Ottmar Mergenthaler Memorial
Ottmar Mergenthaler Memorial in Hachtel., Copyright Holger Schmitt