15 Sights in Kempten (Allgäu), Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Kempten (Allgäu), Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 15 sights are available in Kempten (Allgäu), Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Kempten (Allgäu)1. Zumsteinhaus
The Zumsteinhaus is a listed building with the address Residenzplatz 31 in Kempten (Allgäu). It was built in 1802 for the Zumstein de la Pierre merchant family from Savoy and restored in 1959. Owned by the city since 1951, the building housed a Roman Museum and a Natural History Museum until 2015. From 2003 to 2015, the building was used as an Advent calendar during the Advent season. Since 2015, the building has been closed for extensive renovations and the establishment of the new city museum. On 6 to 8 December 2019, the Kempten Museum was opened in the Zumsteinhaus.
2. Heilig Kreuz
The Heiligkreuz monastery was a monastery of the Franciscan observants in the Heiligkreuz district of Kempten (Allgäu) in the Diocese of Augsburg. The place of Heiligkreuz was only created with the monastery. The patronal feast of the monastery, the increase in the cruise, is celebrated on September 14th. The monastery includes a structurally connected parish and pilgrimage church. Because of the legend of the blood wonder, the place developed into a pilgrimage.
3. Sankt Mang
St. Mang is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Kempten, Germany. She is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Most of the building standing today dates back to the 15th century. It is dedicated to Saints Magnus and Ulrich of Augsburg, the latter of which is rarely mentioned from the early modern period. From 1527 onwards, the church was the centre of the Reformation in the Kempten area. It gives its name to St. Mang Square.
4. Beginenhaus
The beguinage and its rear building, the Nun's Tower, form a listed building ensemble from the 14th century on the Iller in Kempten (Allgäu). Since 2003, the Förderverein Beginenhaus Kempten e.V. has taken care of these buildings, researched them archaeologically and developed a renovation and use concept. The renovation and unclear future of the building ensemble has been a regular topic of city politics for over a decade.
5. Kunsthalle Kempten
The Stiftsmälzerei is a building in Kempten (Allgäu) that was completed in 1788 under Prince Abbot Rupert von Neuenstein after a fire in the Old Brewery. In addition to the Marstall and Kornhaus, it was another part of the large economic area of the Princely Abbey of Kempten. Originally, this listed building was to be built as a single unit with the stables and to form a three-courtyard farm area of the monastery.
6. Besenkapelle
The Brooms Chapel is a monumental building of the Catholics on Memminger Strasse in Kempten, built around 1740 for Franz Georg Hermann. Hermann's residence, called Catholic Orphanage, is located right next to the chapel. The pilast-divided construction points in east-west direction and has a longitudinal pendentiff dome.
7. Sankt Anton
St. Anton is a Catholic parish church of the Capuchins in the southern part of the city of Kempten. The patron saint of the church is Anthony of Padua. In a niche in the wall are the mortal remains of his brother Jörg (1696–1762). These were brought from Italy over the Alps to Kempten 160 years after his death.
8. Rotes Haus
The red house is a listed building with the address St.-Mang-Platz 3 with a core that still comes from the late Middle Ages. These are two houses next to each other compared to the Evangelical St. Mang Church, which around 1720/30 received a uniformly designed facade with two diaphragms and two Erkers.
9. Basilika St. Lorenz
St. Lorenz Basilica is a baroque minor Basilica in Kempten, Bavaria, named after the Christian martyr Lawrence of Rome. It is the former abbey church of the Benedictine Kempten Abbey. It is currently used as the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Lawrence in the Diocese of Augsburg.
10. Claude Dornier
Claude (Claudius) Honoré Désiré Dornier was a German-French airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. He also made several other successful aircraft.
11. Burgstall Kalbsangst
Kalbsangst Castle in Kempten has been preserved as a castle stable. A ring ditch and a memorial stone erected in memory of the castle have been preserved. In old documents, the castle is also referred to as a castle. The Burgstall is located about 400 metres east of Prestling.
12. Neuapostolische Kirche
The listed New Apostolic Church in Kempten (Allgäu) is an elongated hall building with a transverse end building in the form of a two-storey gable-roofed building with a dwarf house. The church was built by the Heydecker brothers in 1927 and completed in 1928.
13. Stadtteilbücherei St. Mang
The Rotschlößle is a patrician country estate in the Kempten district of Sankt Mang. The building, which is addressed as Am Rotschlössle 9, was named after the former reddish façade colour. Today, the listed building houses the Sankt Mang district library.
14. BigBox
The BigBox Allgäu is a multifunctional event hall at Kotterner Straße 64 in the city center of Kempten (Allgäu) opened on October 10, 2003. It is operated by the Feneberg family. In it there are concerts, trade fairs, exhibitions, theater and cabaret.
15. Jenisch-Haus
The Jenisch House is a listed patrician house on the church square of the St. Mang Church. The house with a high gable roof at St.-Mang-Platz 1 is directly adjacent to the Red House, which also belonged to the Jenisch family.
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