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Feelings of elation at the foot of the Alps

Bavaria’s highest-lying town is situated right on the edge of the Alps and just four kilometres from Neuschwanstein Castle. Here the Romantic Road meets the German Alpine Road and the Via Claudia Augusta. The historic old town centre is home to impressive monuments and artistic treasures from the 2000 years of Füssen’s history. High above the river Lech, the baroque monastery complex of St. Mang and the Hohes Schloss create an impressive ensemble.

History

  • 4th century AD Roman castle (‘Foetibus’) on the Schlossberg to protect the ‘Via Claudia Augusta’
  • 8th century AD 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 century Birthplace and European centre of the lute and violin making trade
  • 17th / 18th century 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)

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87629 Füssen
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