Churches and abbeys

The medieval Haydau Abbey is the best preserved Cistercian abbey in Hesse. After the reformation it was used as a hunting lodge, today it is a centre for culture and communications with an adjoining hotel.

The Schwarzach Cathedral is the former monastery church of St. Peter and Paul of the former Benedictine abbey of Schwarzach and was first mentioned in a document in 826.

In Wurttembergs oldest wine town you can experience wine culture, Mediterranean flair at the Neckar and Germany's biggest science center - the experimenta. Festivals and cultural events show the enjoyment of life in the city.

In the tranquil little hamlet of Pfärrich near Amtzell lies the stately pilgrimage church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which is well worth seeing.

The pilgrimage church Maria Bickesheim of Durmersheim originated in the 13th century and has undergone numerous additions and alterations over the course of its history.

The Frauenalb monastery ruin, a former Benedictine monastery, was donated by Count Eberhard III of Eberstein in the 12th century and served as a house monastery for female family members.

The Asam church monastery at Rohr is one of the most important baroque churches in Germany. The ceilings in the nave and the high altar flanked by red marble columns are considered masterpieces of their kind.

Visit our picturesque old town at the feet of the gothic city church.

The late Gothic collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul, built between 1457 and 1497, is the landmark of the city of Öhringen.

The Renaissance castle and the late Romanesque Gallus church in Brenz are special jewels of the municipality of Sontheim.

With over 1000 years of history, the early Romanesque church of St. Cyriak in Sulzburg is one of the oldest churches in Germany.

'In Ulm, um Ulm und um Ulm herum' - this famous German tongue-twister stands for the special city experience the Donau double city of Ulm/Neu-Ulm provides.

Today the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph lives in the baroque convent of St. Trudpert in Münstertal. The monastery church is freely accessible.

The first documentary evidence of a place of pilgrimage dates back to the 13th century. In its present form the pilgrimage chapel "Seven Sorrows of Mary" has been located on the Letzenberg since 1902.

The Baroque church Schönenberg, built at the end of the 17th century, located near Ellwangen and is today a popular place of pilgrimage.