Former Premonstratensian monastery: founded in 1147 by Duke Welf VI; monastery life ended with secularization in 1803, Copyright Gemeinde Steingaden/Werner Böglmüller
Monastery church St. Johannes Baptist (1176), called Welfenmünster: one of the most important Romanesque church buildings in Upper Bavaria; 3-aisled pillar basilica with 2 towers; church interior baroqueized (1660-70); Wessobrunn stucco and ceiling paintings; rococo pulpit and cross group; preserved west wing of the former Romanesque cloister (13th century Gothic vault), monastery garden. Copyright municipality of Steingaden/Werner Böglmüller
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Gothic St. Wolfgang’s Bridge
Gothic St. Wolfgang’s bridge with statue of St. Nepomuk, and St. Wolfgang’s Church, Copyright Holger Schmitt
Medieval town fortifications in Tauberbischofsheim
Remains of the medieval town fortifications, numerous parks and fountains, shrines to the Virgin Mary, statues of saints and memorials,…
Hospital buildings
Hospital buildings, including the Church of the Holy Spirit (given a baroque redesign in 1760), rare Communion Altar, ceiling fresco…
Market place Nördlingen
Historical market place with imposing half-timbered and patrician houses: Town Hall (13th century) with bay and tower extensions (about 1500)…
Hohenschwangau Castle
From 1832 to 1836, Crown Prince Maximilian had the medieval Schwanstein Castle converted into Hohenschwangau Palace in the neo-Gothic style.…
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…