Tourist Attractions in Ulm, Germany

On the east side of the Marktplatz (No. 9) is the Ulm Museum, which has the finest collection of Upper Swabian art and culture since the Middle Ages.

In Ulm's southern district of Wiblingen is a large Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th C. and dissolved in 1803, with a magnificent Baroque church (1780; sculpture by Januarius Zick) and a sumptuously decorated Library.

In the southwest of Ulm, at Fürsteneckerstrasse 17, is the German Bread Museum (Deutsches Brotmuseum; history of bread and of baking).

The Bread Museum examines the history of bread making around the world from ancient to modern times.

Around the mouth of the river Blau, which flows into the Danube here, is Ulm's very picturesque and skillfully restored Fischerviertel, the old fishermen's and tanners' quarter.

Ulm is located where the Danube stream becomes a river and once a year pays tribute to the waters with a fishing festival. This 10-day festival takes place in late July and includes a traditional procession near the river, a "Fishermen's Jousting Match," and other traditional festivities.

Between 1852 and 1867, Ulm was surrounded by a 9km/6mi long ring of fortifications, with several forts and 41 major defensive works. The Oberer Kuhberg fort became a concentration camp during the Nazi period (memorial).

Some 21km/13mi down the Danube valley from Ulm, at the junction with the Günz, lies the little town of Günzburg, with a large Renaissance Schloss (16th C.) and the beautiful Liebfrauenkirche (by Dominikus Zimmermann, 1736-39).

10km/6mi northeast of Ulm, on the southern fringe of the Swabian Alb, is Oberelchingen, with the remains of a monastery founded about 1000; fine church, remodeled in Baroque style.

To the south of the Minster in the Marktplatz is the handsome Gothic Town Hall (Rathaus; restored after wartime destruction), with frescoes of 1540. In front of the Town Hall can be seen the beautiful fountain known as the Fischkasten (fish-tank) by Jörg Syrlin the Elder, 1482.

Along the Danube, most of Ulm's 15th C town walls have been preserved, with the Metzgerturm (Butchers' Tower), a leaning tower which is several feet off the vertical.