Schwangau
Schwangau is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. The village lies 4 km from the larger town of Füssen and just 1.5 km from Hohenschwangau, a collection of tourist-oriented facilities adjacent to the major tourist attractions of Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle.
Neuschwanstein Castle
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Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria.
Hohenschwangau Castle
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Hohenschwangau Castle is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Säuling
Peak
Säuling or Saulingspitze is a twin-peak mountain in the German Allgäu, though part of the mountain is in Austria. The two summits have heights of 2,047 metres and 2,038 metres. It is located near the town of Füssen and the castle Neuschwanstein.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Füssen and Pinswang.
Füssen
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Füssen in Allgäu is an enchanting town in the south of Bavaria, Germany known for the Hohes Schloss and its Basilica and former Benedictine monastery of St Mang.
Pinswang
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Pinswang is a picturesque historic Alpine village in the Austrian Ausserfern region of the northern Tirol. It lies on the border with the Allgäu region of Bavaria Germany.
Hohenschwangau
Village
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Hohenschwangau is a former village and now an urban district of the municipality of Schwangau, Ostallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany. It is located between Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss Hohenschwangau and is visited by about two million people annually, where they start tours to the former royal palaces.
Schwangau
- Categories: climatic health resort and municipality without town privileges in Germany
- Location: Ostallgäu, Bavarian Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Schwangau” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Շվանգաու”
- Basque: “Schwangau”
- Bavarian: “Schwangau”
- Belarusian: “Швангау”
- Catalan: “Schwangau”
- Cebuano: “Schwangau”
- Central Kurdish: “شڤانگاو”
- Chechen: “Швангау”
- Chinese: “Schwangau”
- Chinese: “施万高”
- Chinese: “施旺高”
- Czech: “Schwangau”
- Danish: “Schwangau”
- Dutch: “Schwangau”
- Esperanto: “Schwangau”
- French: “Schwangau”
- German: “Schwangau”
- Greek: “Σβανγκάου”
- Hebrew: “שואנגאו”
- Hungarian: “Schwangau”
- Indonesian: “Schwangau”
- Irish: “Schwangau”
- Italian: “Schwangau”
- Japanese: “シュヴァンガウ”
- Kazakh: “Швангау”
- Kirghiz: “Швангау”
- Kurdish: “Schwangau”
- Ladin: “Schwangau”
- Lombard: “Schwangau”
- Malay: “Schwangau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schwangau”
- Mongolian: “Швангау”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwangau”
- Norwegian: “Schwangau”
- Persian: “شوانگائو”
- Persian: “شوانگاو”
- Polish: “Schwangau”
- Portuguese: “Schwangau”
- Pushto: “شوانګاو”
- Romanian: “Schwangau”
- Russian: “Швангау”
- Serbian: “Швангау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schwangau”
- Slovak: “Schwangau”
- Slovenian: “Schwangau”
- Spanish: “Schwangau”
- Swedish: “Schwangau”
- Swiss German: “Schwangau”
- Tatar: “Швангау”
- Thai: “ชวังเกา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Schwangau”
- Turkish: “Schwangau”
- Ukrainian: “Швангау”
- Uzbek: “Schwangau”
- Vietnamese: “Schwangau”
- Volapük: “Schwangau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schwangau”
- Western Panjabi: “شوانگاؤ”
- “Schwangau”
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