History

• 4th century AD - Roman castle ('Foetibus') on the Schlossberg to protect the 'Via Claudia Augusta'
• 8th century - Cell of St. Magnus
• About 850 - Founding of St. Mang Benedictine Monastery
• About 1295 Town charter
• 1313 - Town mortgaged to the Archbishops of Augsburg who remain lords of the town until 1802
• About 1335 - Town fortifications erected; economic boom and prosperity as place of transhipment for transit goods
• 15th / 16th c. - Birthplace and European centre of the lute and violin making trade
• 17th / 18th c. - Repeated severe destruction through war
• 1701-17 - Construction of the Baroque Church and Monastery of St. Mang
• 1745 - Peace of Füssen ends the Bavarian-Austrian War of Succession
• 1802/03 - Secularisation (St. Mang dissolved) and incorporation of the town into Bavaria
• Today - Centre of tourism for the East Allgäu (14,000 inhabitants)