Ottobeuren: Brunnen am Marktplatz - Marktplatz - Basilika St. Alexander und St. Theodor
Ottobeuren occupies a gently rolling stretch of the Allgäu in Bavarian Swabia. The town grew around a Benedictine abbey founded in 764, an institution that shaped settlement and life around the Günz River for centuries. Dominating the Marktplatz, the Basilica of St Alexander and St Theodore is the former abbey church, a monumental late-Baroque building constructed between 1737 and 1766. Its paired towers rise above the square’s fountain and the pitched roofs of the old centre. The abbey held the status of an Imperial Abbey until secularisation in the early 19th century. Together, the square and monastery buildings preserve the close relationship between civic life and the abbey that once governed this small territory.
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Ottobeuren combines the quiet rhythm of an Allgäu market town with the scale of a former Benedictine power centre, a contrast that reflects its cultural position in Bavarian Swabia. The settlement lies on the Günz, amid gently rolling country between the Allgäu and the Danube basin. Its defining landmark is Ottobeuren Abbey, founded in 764 and rebuilt on a monumental scale in the 18th century. The Abbey Basilica of St Alexander and St Theodore is a major work of Bavarian Baroque and Rococo, with a twin-towered façade and lavishly decorated interior. Although the abbey was secularised in 1802, the complex still gives the town an unusually grand presence. See how Ottobeuren fits within the Allgäu and Bavarian Swabia by browsing webcams nearby.
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