Sights in Augsburg Region

The LandArt Art Trail Bonstetten is one-of-a-kind in Germany. Nine objects by the artist Hama Lohmann find their home at the edge of an approximately six kilometer long art trail in the Augsburg Nature Park-Western Forests. The art has been cremt with material from the forest - trunks, stones, branches, leaves, sand, earth. These are trassiert Works that may deteriorate over time.

Emersacker is located 25 Kilometers northwest of Augsburg in the nature park - Western Forests. Ten years ago, the approximately two hectare permaculture of the “ConCenter for Permaculture and Community” was created there - an enchanted landscape of craters and hillside beds.

According to legend, the monastery high above the Lech valley was founded by Knight Marquard of Donnersberg as a twin monastery of the Benedictines (with a convent for men and for women). The former monastery church was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1704. The pilgrimage to the miraculous child began around 1740. The wooden figure of a clothed Christ child ,“Holzener Jesulein”, was created around 1620/30.

The Mercateum is the world’s largest historical cartographic globe. Its precision and details make it an impressive sight. On the exterior this walk-in Globe the first world map of the Spanish cosmographer Diego Ribero from 1529 is pictured. An exhibition inside explains the role of Swabia in early foreign trade.

Legend has it that the last Bavarian Duke Tassilo III founded the monastery dedicated to Peter and Paul in the middle of the 8th century in Thierhaupten. The former monastery church is a Romanesque building which was renovated in the Baroque style like the monastery buildings. The Benedictine abbey was secularized in 1803. The Klostermühlen Museum is at the foot of the monastery hill.