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Municipality in Bavaria, Germany

Ottobeuren

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

Ottobeuren
Ottobeuren · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Ottobeuren 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.

    100 m · abbey · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ottobeuren

Airports
Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 7 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 66 km · Innsbruck (INN), 109 km
  • Friedrichshafen → Ottobeuren
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €10–14
  • Stuttgart → Ottobeuren
    125 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €17–24
  • Munich → Ottobeuren
    97 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €11–16
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Not yet researched

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.

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.

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