Landsberg am Lech Attractions

25km/15mi west of Landsberg, on the Swabian Spa Route (Schwäbische Bäderstrasse), is the little spa of Bad Wörishofen, where Sebastian Kneipp developed the famous Kneipp water cure. There is a Kneipp Museum in the Klosterhof.

At the upper end of Bergstrasse in Landsberg rises the 36 m/118ft high Bayertor (1425), an imposing and completely preserved Gothic town gate.

From the Hauptplatz in Landsberg it is a short distance through the Schöner Turm ("Schmalztor"), up the steep Alte Bergstrasse and then left to the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (1752-54), a former Jesuit church with a richly appointed Baroque interior, beautiful ceiling paintings and an arcaded courtyard. Here too is the Municipal Museum (Stadtmuseum; pictures, medieval sculpture, history of the region, local craft products).

Near the Town Hall in Landsberg is the Late Gothic parish church of the Assumption (1458-88), with a Baroque interior (1702): stucco decoration of the Wessobrunn school, fine stained glass (15th-16th century) in choir, Gothic figure of the Virgin (by Hans Multscher, 1437) on high altar.

North of the Parish Church in Landsberg is the Roccoco Johanniskirche (by Dominikus Zimmermann, 1750-52).

In the handsome triangular Hauptplatz in Landsberg stands the Town Hall (1699), with a sumptuous stucco facade (1719) by Dominikus Zimmermann. It contains a large painting by the German-English artist Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914).

On the far side of the Lech river in Landsberg is the neo-Romanesque Mutterturm, the artist Hubert Herkomer's studio (collection of graphic art).

To the south, in the Lechauen (Lech water meadows), lies the Landsberg game park.

This annual Middle Ages Festival takes place on weekends every July. The town turns back the clock and holds a "Kaltenberg Knights Tournament," folk dancing performances, traditional craft stalls and other period entertainment.