Ottobeuren
Ottobeuren is a market town and municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located 11 km southeast of Memmingen near the A7.

Ottobeuren is a market town and municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located 11 km southeast of Memmingen near the A7. It is famous for Ottobeuren Abbey, situated next to the Basilica. The town is seat of a municipal association with Hawangen and Böhen.
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Worth seeing in and around Ottobeuren
One place 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.
- 01Ottobeuren Abbey
Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany. For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately 40 self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually independent state.
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Getting to Ottobeuren
- Airports
- Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 7 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 66 km · Innsbruck (INN), 109 km
- Friedrichshafen → Ottobeuren69 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €10–14
- Stuttgart → Ottobeuren125 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €17–24
- Munich → Ottobeuren97 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €11–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ottobeuren
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 Ottobeuren. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Ottobeuren
- Hawangenmunicipality of Germany3.7 km