Every year, various music groups invite you to spend an atmospheric evening at the Peitinger Gumpen. We also accepted this invitation and watched the spectacle. From the lakeshore, the musicians played their instruments and let their melodies float over the water. Alphorns, brass and woodwind instruments enveloped us in alpine sounds and created a magical atmosphere. We were able to observe the music groups particularly well when they climbed onto boats and crossed the path of geese and ducks as they sailed across the lake. Some of the melodies brought back old memories and invited us to hum along.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Mariengrotte
Mariengrotte: The sublime, youthful figure of Mary stands as the central figure in a niche of this stalactite cave. The…
Main square
‘Hauptplatz’ with stately patrician houses around St. Mary’s fountain (1783) and Town Hall (1700), the town’s most attractive secular building…
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…
Market place Nördlingen
Historical market place with imposing half-timbered and patrician houses: Town Hall (13th century) with bay and tower extensions (about 1500)…
Perlachturm
Perlachturm (11th / 12th centuries): 70 m high tower with lantern belfry and ‘Welscher Haube’ roof by Elias Holl (1614-16).







