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Town in Bavaria, Germany

Memmingen

Memmingen is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany.

Memmingen
Memmingen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Memmingen is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the economic, educational and administrative centre of the Danube-Iller region. To the west, the town is flanked by the Iller river, which marks the Baden-Württemberg border. To the north, east and south the town is surrounded by the district of Unterallgäu.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Memmingen

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Buxheim Charterhouse

    Buxheim Charterhouse was formerly a monastery of the Carthusians and is now a monastery of the Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen in Bavaria.

    3.8 km · monastery · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Martin (Memmingen)

    The cultural heritage management city parish church of St. Martin in Memmingen is one of the oldest churches in Upper Swabia.

    300 m · church building in Bavaria, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Organs of St. Martin

    The organ of St. Martin is located in the Lutheran city parish church of St.

    300 m · pipe organ in St. Martin's Church, Memmingen, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Ulrich (Amendingen)

    The Catholic parish church St. Ulrich is a Baroque church of the 18th century in Amendingen.

    2 km · church · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

The medieval old town center consists of several attractions: Market place. This is one of the most picturesque sites in the town. It is surrounded by the town hall, the Großzunft(Guildhouse) and the Steuerhaus (tax house). On Tuesday and Saturday morning there is a farmers market held, where fresh vegetables and fruit are being sold.

  1. 01
    St Martin's

    This is one of the oldest churches in Upper Swabia and the towns landmark.

  2. 02
    Antoniterkloster

    The well preserved former Hospital Brothers of St.

  3. 03
    Kreuzherrenkloster

    Around the old town walls where the moats used to be in the Middle Ages public park areas have been created.

From Wikivoyage: Memmingen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Walk along the tourist routes "Roter Weg" (red route) and "Grüner Weg" (green route). These will guide you to most of the sights in town.

  1. 01
    Eissporthalle

    Visit the ice rink Eissporthalle Memmingen and do some ice-skating or Bavarian Curling.

From Wikivoyage: Memmingen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

All these are in the city centre:

  1. 01
    Treff

    Kuttelgasse 20.

  2. 02
    Cennis

    Kreuzstraße 9.

  3. 03
    Pasta Fresca Doro

    Ulmer Str.

  4. 04
    King

    Maximilianstraße 20A.

  5. 05
    Drachen Imbiss

    Kalchstraße 6.

From Wikivoyage: Memmingen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Memmingen

Airports
Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 4 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 61 km · Stuttgart (STR), 105 km
Stations
Memmingen Airport, 4.3 km
  • Friedrichshafen → Memmingen
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · €9–12
  • Stuttgart → Memmingen
    116 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · €16–22
  • Munich → Memmingen
    105 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €11–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Memmingen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Memmingen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAfter 19:00 there is no regular bus service but a so called "Anrufsammeltaxi" (hailed shared taxi), where a telephone notification in advance is necessary.

From Wikivoyage: Memmingen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    286 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    431 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    693 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    727 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    778 km

If you know how people move in Memmingen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Memmingen

  • Benningenmunicipality in the district of Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany3.1 km
  • Heimertingenmunicipality in the district of Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany5.6 km
  • Buxheimmunicipality in Unterallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany3.8 km
  • Memmingerbergmunicipality of Germany2.7 km
  • Trunkelsbergmunicipality of Germany3 km
  • Lachenmunicipality in the district of Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany5.7 km