Blaubeuren Travel Guide

 Kathrin_E Says:  The hospital was founded in 1420. Its buildings have been enlarged several times. The little chapel used to be the funeral chapel of the adjacent town cemetery. The half-timbered upper floor is connected to the main building of the hospital and contained the offices of its... 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The catholic church outside the old town by the road to the train station is much younger than it looks. The neo-Romanesque church was only built in 1894-95. Württemberg had turned entirely protestant in the 16th century reformation and only in the run of the 19th century... 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The parish church of the town, first mentioned in 1343, became protestant in the Württemberg reformation of 1536. The interior has been restored resp. redesigned in gothic historism in 1902. 

 Kathrin_E Says:  Trouts feel happy in the strong current of fresh, cool water. You can easily spot the big fat fish from the banks of the Blau. I have no idea if fishing is permitted here at all – from the point of view of the trouts hopefully not (“Watch us but don’t eat us…”) 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The whole complex of the former abbey is well preserved. The half-timbered gatehouse underwent several changes throughout the centuries. The adjacent building on the right, dated 1478, was the wine cellar and cooperage. The so-called bath house east of the church contained... 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The gothic hall off the cloister was used for the meetings of the convent. A row of columns divides it into two aisles. Along the walls old tombstones of local noble families have been put up, which don’t originally belong here but probably into the church. 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The cloister also shows 15th century late gothic architecture. The opening in the middle has been turned into a herb garden according to monastic traditions.The small chapel in the cloister covers a well. Fresh water from a side stream of the Blau is flowing through it right... 

 Kathrin_E Says:  Benedictine monks from Hirsau founded the monastery next to the Blautopf in 1085. Most of the present buildings have been erected in the 15th century. After the reformation the abbey has been turned into a high school that prepared students for the studies of theology. The... 

 Kathrin_E Says:  The “Blue Pot” is known for the extraordinary colour of the water. The effect is caused by the enormous depth of the pond. Only in recent years divers have managed to reach its bottom. Former centuries believed it was groundless. Usually the colour is a clear strong blue.... 

 AnnaLupilla Says:  Greatest depth 20.6 m, volume approx 5,500 m³. Constant temp in the depths of 9.4 °C.During the most recent ice age the Danube flowed from Ehingen over Blaubeuren to Ulm. The Blautopf lies at the edge of this old Danube valley. During the ice ages more than 20 m of rubble... 

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