The old town of Landsberg, with its medieval town walls, gates, towers, churches and gabled houses, is picturesquely situated above the right bank of the Lech at the south end of the Lechfeld, which extends north to Augsburg. It lies on the Romantische Strasse.
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.
Address: Bad Wörishofen Tourist Office, D-86825 Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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.
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).
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.
Address: Landsberg am Lech Tourist Office, Hubert-von-Herkomer-Strasse Ammersee-Lech Von Kuhlmannstrasse 15, D-86899 Landsberg am Lech, Germany
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