Overview: Churches, Monasteries, World Culture

The most important sights at a glance
Upper Swabian Baroque Road: Basilica in Weingarten close to Lake Constance

Weingarten Basilica - Baroque & Nature in Harmony

Weingarten is a sparkling gem on the upper Swabian Baroque Route where the largest baroque basilica north of the Alps attracts admirers from every corner of the globe. The...
Abbey library in St.Gallen close to Lake Constance

Abbey Cathedral of St Gall, UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Abbey Cathedral of St.Gall, the abbey library and the surrounding monastery buildings - in short the St.Gallen Abbey District - was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
St. Peter und Paul church on the Reichenau Island at Lake Constance

Reichenau Island, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, Reichenau Island in Lake Constance bears outstanding testimony to the religious and cultural role of a great Benedictine...
Anbetung der Könige, Krippe von Antonio Pigozzi

Nativity Scene Museum, Dornbirn

The Museum is located in a 150-year-old stable at the mouth of the Rappenloch gorge. Visitors can admire some 180 cribs and crib figurines from around the world. In addition...
Birnau abbey church at Lake Constance

Upper Swabian Baroque Road

For almost fifty years, the Upper Swabian Baroque Road has paved the way to the lovingly renovated vestiges of the past. Four roads wind their way through the region,...
Rosgartenmuseum

Rosgartenmuseum

The Middle Ages lives in the heart of Constance. The former butchers’ guild house of 1454 contains unique and faithfully preserved halls, rooms and works of art from the...

Roggenburg Monastery

For more than 800 years, the Premonstratensian religious order has lived and worked in Roggenburg where the monastery complex and gardens shimmer in newly renovated splendor....
Neues Schloss Meersburg

Meersburg New Palace

The New Palace crowns the city silhouette of Meersburg high above Lake Constance. The representative residence of the Prince-Bishops began to be built in 1710 and since then...
Jüdisches Museum Hohenems

Jewish Museum, Hohenems

Housed in the Heimann-Rosenthal villa built in 1864, the museum covers the period from the 17th century to the present, exploring themes ranging from the precarious existence...