October 31, 2026
Reformation Day — Public Holiday in Select States
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Füssen is a fairytale town in southern Bavaria, nestled at the foot of the Alps on the border with Austria, with a history spanning more than a thousand years. Once an important trading hub on the route between Italy and northern Europe, it is now known as the gateway to Neuschwanstein Castle — the very building that inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty. A visit to Füssen means a combination of Alpine nature, medieval streets, and one of the most visited castles in the world.
October 31, 2026
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November 1, 2026
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December 25, 2026
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December 26, 2026
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January 1, 2027
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January 6, 2027
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March 26, 2027
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March 29, 2027
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May 1, 2027
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May 6, 2027
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May 17, 2027
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August 15, 2027
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October 3, 2027
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The summer residence of the Prince-Bishops of Augsburg, built from 1486 onwards under Friedrich II of Zollern, at which time the moat separating the castle from the hillside was also deepened. The courtyard walls and gatehouse tower are decorated not with carvings but with paintings: illusionistic architecture, executed around 1499, conjures up windows, bay windows, and frames that do not physically exist. The building's present appearance is the result of extensive restoration work. Since 1931, the north wing has housed a branch of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, featuring late Gothic Swabian painting, while the floor below contains the municipal gallery with works from the Munich school of the 19th century. The Knights' Hall has a painted wooden ceiling with figurative reliefs attributed to Jörg Lederer. Visitors can also explore the sentry walkway along the ramparts and the gatehouse tower, from which the roofline of the old town and the cutting through which the Roman road once passed are clearly visible. The galleries are not accessible to visitors with reduced mobility.
The Benedictine monastery was founded in the first half of the 9th century on the site where the hermit Magnus and his companion Theodore built a cell. The Baroque complex visible today was constructed by Johann Jakob Herkomer between 1696 and 1726, transforming an irregular medieval ensemble into a symmetrical whole. After the monastery was dissolved in 1803, the buildings were purchased by the city in 1909, and the City Museum now occupies the southern wing. It presents the history of the city and the monastery, the Baroque ceremonial rooms, and the Prince's Hall completed in 1719, where chamber music concerts have been held every summer since 1951. A second major theme is the crafting of lutes and violins: the first lute maker in Füssen was recorded in 1436, and in 1562 the first lute makers' guild in Europe was established here, so the museum holds a large collection of stringed instruments. The museum also provides the only entrance to St Anne's Chapel, which contains the Füssen Dance of Death — a cycle of twenty scenes painted in 1602 by Jakob Hiebeler on the commission of Abbot Matthias Schober. Death comes for each in turn, from the Pope and the Emperor down to a small child and the painter himself, accompanied by an inscription warning that the dance cannot be refused. It is the oldest surviving Dance of Death in Bavaria.
Originally a monastic church, today a parish church of the city. The current building was designed and begun in 1701 by Johann Jakob Herkomer; it was consecrated in 1717, the same year he died, and the interior was completed by 1726 by his nephew Johann Georg Fischer. Above the nave, crossing, and choir stand six domes on pendentives, a solution drawn from the Venetian tradition. The frescoes are largely the work of Franz Georg Hermann: in the nave, the life of St Magnus; in the choir, the death of St Benedict. Beneath the church lie two crypts. The eastern crypt preserves the outer walls of an 11th-century basilica and is considered the oldest surviving part of any building in the city; in 1950, a fragment of 10th-century painting depicting St Magnus and St Gall was discovered there. The western crypt belongs to the choir dating from around 1200. The main organ derives from an instrument built by Andreas Jäger in 1753, rebuilt several times, and today has thirty-nine stops.
A hard cheese made from raw cow's milk, aged for months, with a nutty and mildly sweet flavour that grows sharper with age. It has held a European protected designation of origin since January 1997, and the protected area covers the districts of Lindau, Oberallgäu, Ostallgäu, Unterallgäu, Ravensburg, and the Bodenseekreis, along with the towns of Kaufbeuren, Kempten, and Memmingen. Füssen lies in Ostallgäu, and therefore falls within this protected area.
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