Upper Swabian Baroque Route

The Upper Swabian Baroque Road is a 1966 launched about 500 kilometers long holiday road in Upper Swabia. In the middle of the holiday road the secular and sacred buildings of the Baroque period are available along the road. The expansion of routes to go around the lake partly because of the adjacent Eastern Switzerland and the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.

  • 2.1 Main Route
  • 2.2 West Route
  • 2.3 Southbound
  • 2.4 eastern route

Overview

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  • 48 ° 24 '0 "N, 9 ° 59 ' 0" O48.49.9833333333333 Ulm with Ulmer Münster
  • 48 ° 21 '42 " N, 9 ° 59' 31" O48.3616666666679.9919444444444 Wiblingen ( Library Hall )
  • 48 ° 20 '0 "N, 9 ° 53 ' 0" O48.3333333333339.8833333333333 Erbach (Donau ) with the St. Martin Church
  • Laupheim with parish church of St. Peter and Paul and Castle Laupheim
  • Biberach an der Riss with the parish church of St. Martin
  • Ochsenhausen Monastery
  • Good cell with the former imperial abbey Good cell and its present Baroque parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian
  • Steinhausen - Pilgrimage Church of St. Peter and Paul ( often referred to as "the most beautiful village church in the world" )
  • Bad shot Ried - Schussenried Monastery with Rococo library
  • Aulendorf with castle and parish church of St. Martin
  • Obermarchtal, monastery complex with Munster, often also called " the little Versailles ".
  • Bad Wurzach, castle with a magnificent Baroque stairway
  • Kressbronn
  • Tettnang with the baroque Schloss Montfort, called New Castle (Tettnang)
  • Langenargen (baroque church)
  • Ravensburg with a medieval center and monastery church in the district Weißenau
  • Weingarten monastery and basilica ( with the famous Gabler organ )
  • Monastery Zwiefalten with baroque cathedral
  • Meßkirch with Renaissance castle and town church
  • Sigmaringen Castle Sigmaringen
  • Forest with the baroque monastery of the Cistercian forest and the monastery church with Aich Gasser- organ
  • Überlingen with the medieval cathedral
  • Meersburg with the oldest castle in Germany
  • Tannheim with his early Baroque parish church of St. Martin
  • Memmingen with its baroque Kreuzherrenkloster
  • Monastery Buxheim with the Buxheimer choir stalls
  • Monastery Ottobeuren
  • Fürstäbtliche residence with Basilica of St. Lorenz in Kempten ( Allgäu)
  • 47 ° 53 ' 19 " N, 10 ° 8' 15" O47.88861111111110.1375 pilgrimage church of Maria Steinbach in Legau with numerous testimonies of popular piety
  • 47 ° 47 '0 "N, 9 ° 53 ' 0" O47.7833333333339.8833333333333 Kißlegg with the baroque church of St. Gallus and Ulrich, the cemetery chapel with frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam as well as the Old and New Castle
  • 47 ° 42 '0 "N, 10 ° 2' 0" O47.710.033333333333 Isny with St. George's Church

Some pictures of the sights

Ulmer Münster

Wiblingen Library Hall

St. Martin in Tannheim (early Baroque)

Ceiling of the Sanctuary Steinhausen

Schussenried Monastery Library Hall

Monastery Zwiefalten

Sanctuary Birnau on Lake Constance

Klosterwald

Monastery church Weißenau

Gabler organ in Weingarten

The baroque Kreuzherrenkloster in Memmingen

The baroque Basilica of St. Lorenz, in front of the residence Fürstäbtliche

Interior of the abbey church of the former imperial abbey Good cell

The logo is a putto, a typical baroque yellow angel on a green ground, sometimes associated with the word " Upper Swabian Baroque Route, between the Danube and Lake Constance "

Route Overview

Main route

Ulm / Donau, Ulm- Wiblingen, Donaustetten, Gögglingen, Unterweiler, Blaubeuren, Erbach (Donau), Donaurieden, Ersingen, Oberdischingen, Öpfingen, Gamerschwang, Nasgenstadt, Ehingen (Donau), Munderkingen, Obermarchtal, Mochental, cell, Zwiesel, Dürrenwald Stetten, Daugendorf, Unlingen, Riedlingen, Heudorf, Kappel, Bad Buchau, Reichenbach, Muttensweiler, Steinhausen, Bad Schussenried, Otterswang, Aulendorf, Altshausen, Ebenweiler, Reute, Bad Waldsee, Baindt, Weingarten, Ravensburg, Obereschach, Gornhofen, Weißenau, Mark village, Friedrichshafen, Eriskirch, Eriskirch - Mariabrunn, Langenargen, Tettnang, Tannau, Wangen im Allgäu, Deuchelried, Argenbuehl - Eglofs, Isny, Kißlegg, Wolfegg, Bergatreute, Bad Wurzach, Rot an der Rot, Ochsenhausen, Ummendorf, Biberach an der Riss, Reinstetten, good cell, Schwendihotel, castle vineyards, Villa Red, Laupheim, Baltringen, Maselheim, Bihlafingen, Oberkirchberg, sub- Kirchberg, Ulm- Wiblingen

West Route

Riedlingen, Altheim, Heiligkreuztal, Ertingen, Herbertingen, Bad Saulgau, Sießen, quantities, Scheer, Bingen, Sigmaringen, Meßkirch, Klosterwald, Pfullendorf, Heiligenberg - Betenbrunn, Deggenhausertal, Weildorf, Kloster Salem, Überlingen, Sanctuary Birnau, Seefelden, Baitenhausen, Meersburg

Southbound

Kressbronn, Schleinsee on Schleinsee, Wasserburg, Lindau, Bregenz, Bildstein, Dornbirn, Hohenems, Altstaetten, Trogen, St. Gallen, Arbon, Roman horn, Munsterlingen, Kreuzlingen, Constance, Mainau, Meersburg

Eastern route

Rot an der Rot, Berkheim, Bonlanden, Binnrot, Haslach, Tannheim, Buxheim ( Swabia), Memmingen, Ottobeuren, Kempten ( Allgäu), Legau - Lehenbühl, Gronenbach, Kronburg, Maria Steinbach, Legau, Frauenzell Leutkirch im Allgäu, Rötsee, Kißlegg

Important artists of the Swabian Baroque

By operating in neighboring ocher time in the Upper Swabian monasteries artists, the painter of Beuronese Art School and the Franciscan Sister Maria Hummel Innocentia were known nationwide.

Bavaria Wiblingen Abbey St. Martin's Church, Biberach Ochsenhausen Abbey Versailles (city) Kressbronn am Bodensee Zwiefalten Abbey Wald, Baden-Württemberg Altheim, Biberach Bingen, Baden-Württemberg Salem Abbey Romanshorn Buxheim, Swabia Altusried Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder Johann Georg Fischer (architect) Integrated Authority File
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