Oberschwäbische Barockstraße - Ostroute

The Duchy of Swabia, created at the end of the 10th century, covered a much larger area than the region we refer to as Swabia today until its final legal dissolution in 1806. Nevertheless, due to the historical background, it is not surprising that the eastern route of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route also includes Bavarian towns such as Memmingen, Ottobeuren and Kempten.

Discover the Duchy of Swabia in Baroque style

The territory of the Duchy of Swabia extended in the north across the Neckar, in the west it even included Alsace, in the south large parts of Switzerland and today's Vorarlberg belonged to it and the eastern border was east of the Lech. Upper Swabia, as part of the duchy, consisted of both the south-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg and the south-western part of Bavaria. Today, the region's borders can no longer be precisely defined, but natural barriers are roughly named as the borders: from the Danube to Lake Constance, from the Black Forest to the Iller. The eastern route of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route is characterized by a very special architectural style and artistic decoration of the buildings that make up this very special Upper Swabian Baroque.

The eastern route starts at Wiblingen Monastery, where the library hall, which is considered the most successful room creation of the Rococo period, invites you to marvel. From there, the route continues to the Witzighausen pilgrimage church, via the Premonstratensian monastery of Roggenburg, to Illertissen, where the castle chapel features an impressive domed fresco. Further south, you will come across the Bavarian Charterhouse Buxheim, where you can experience the production of stucco, fresco painting and gilding. Also in Bavaria, the Kreuzherrnkloster monastery in Memmingen offers exciting guided tours and in Ottobeuren, visitors can visit an impressive monastery and the baroque basilica.

Before the route ends in Kißlegg im Allgäu with the Neue Schloss Kißlegg and its romantic castle garden, it leads via Leutkirch im Allgäu, where the town hall, one of the most important late Baroque secular buildings, can be visited.

Further information material
Further information can be found in the brochure "The official route guide to the culture and vacation route". You can order it here free of charge.