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| Kempten | ||
| federal state | Bavaria | |
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| Residents | 68.907 (2019,2019) | |
| height | 674 m, 699 m | |
| Tourist information Tel | 49 831 2525 237 | |
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Kempten (Allgäu) is considered the capital of Allgäu. The city has a long history and is one of the oldest cities in Germany.
background
Urban area
The city of Kempten is located in the Allgäu in the valley of the Iller. It is surrounded by pre-alpine moorland and hill country with numerous small villages and hamlets. The urban area of Kempten has included the towns since the reintegration Santa Mang and St. Lorenz in 1972 around 63 km² with exactly 155 districts, so the area surrounding the built-up city has a rural character.
Neighboring places are Altusried, Arbors, Haldenwang, Betzigau, Durach, Waltenhofen, Buchenberg and Wiggensbach, they are all in the Oberallgäu district.
history
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Around 15 BC. the Romans conquered the foothills of the Alps and came across a Celtic settlement called Cambodounon. On the Lindenberg they built a settlement that latinized Cambodunum was called. Around 450 AD. If the Romans left the region, the city was taken over by the Alemanni: Cambodunum became "Swabian".
Around 750 AD. A monastery was built in Kempten: It was not located on the site of the St. Mang Church, as is often mentioned, but where the St. Lorenz Church and the residence are today. It developed into a powerful prince monastery with extensive lands, the prince abbot of Kempten ruled over the city and some market villages in the area. In 1289, Rudolf von Habsburg gave Kempten some privileges. This developed a Free imperial city of Kempten within the sovereign territory of the prince monastery. Naturally, this did not always go smoothly: There were two places called Kempten, each with its own town charter. One of the consequences was that the residents of the imperial city became prostheticists during the Reformation in the 16th century, and the area of the prince monastery remained Catholic.
In 1633 the suffering of the Thirty Years' War also came to Kempten: The monastery with all its partly Romanesque church complexes was destroyed, the imperial city was destroyed, only a minimum of the inhabitants survived, Kempten had to make a difficult new beginning here: the imperial city was rebuilt, in front of it whose city gates were a large, early baroque monastery complex with a large church and a two-courtyard monastery complex with representative purposes. It was the largest new monastery complex after the Thirty Years War
In 1775, the last witch trial on German soil took place in the prince monastery of Kempten, when the maid Anna Schwegelin out Waltenhofen was accused of witchcraft. However, the death sentence was not carried out. With the end of the Napoleon era, the privileges were over: shortly after 1800, the Free Imperial City became mediatizedwho became the prince abbey secularized, both cities were thus united and added to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1818 the settlements around Kempten, which had previously belonged to the city, were knocked down and the rural communities of Sankt Mang and St. Lorenz were formed on each bank of the Iller. This situation remained unchanged until the 1930s, but from then on, more and more districts of the two communities were incorporated into Kempten.
In 1852 the first train arrived in Kempten, city gates were demolished and industrialization was initiated: along the Iller, an industry that was dependent on hydropower emerged, which ceased completely from the end of the 1980s due to Asian competition. The first industrially used diesel engine ran in Kempten in 1898.
The period between the First and Second World War was characterized by inefficient, petty agriculture and an organized dairy farming center, and Kempten also became a commercial, administrative and school center.
During the Second World War, the city was hardly destroyed: only the railway facilities and the southwest of the city were slightly destroyed. The post-war period was characterized by high levels of immigration: resettlers from the German-occupied countries to the east of Germany settled in Kempten. The city grew and flourished, and there was a real construction boom. 1977 can be seen as the ultimate success of this development: The founding of the university, which was originally planned as an Alpine university, was decided. Since the 1990s, Kempten has been revitalized by further growth.
getting there
By plane
The nearest regional airport with a limited number of connections is the Memmingen Airport
(IATA: FMM) north of Kempten; the distance by road is about 40 km. The Friedrichshafen Airport(IATA: FDH) is about 90 km by road to the west.
The next major international airport is the Munich Airport(IATA: MUC) with numerous international connections (approx. 150 km northeast).
The nearest airfield for small aircraft is Durach Airfield (EDMK) (approx. 5 km from Kempten).
By train
Kempten is up to the Railway lines Ulm - Oberstdorf or. Lindau at the Bodensee - Munich. There are also direct connections to Memmingen, among others, Reutte in Tyrol, Nuremberg, Zurich (Eurocity) and augsburg. Intercity trains go to Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Magdeburg once a day. These remaining long-distance traffic connections will be stopped in the near future, as the routes via Kempten are not electrified, i.e. they are still served by diesel locomotives and traction vehicles.
The 1 Central station in Kempten is an intercity stop with connections to Cologne and Hamburg; Long-distance travel times from Kempten:
- Ulm: approx. 50 minutes;
- Munich: approx. 1:25 hours;
- Stuttgart: approx. 2 hours
The 2 Kempten (Allgäu) Ost train station is on the route to Memmingen / Ulm and can be reached in about three minutes from the main train station. The journey from the main train station with the city bus takes over 20 minutes. The Ostbahnhof is a remnant of the largely withdrawn industry and is only served irregularly. It is located near the Roman city of Cambodunum and makes the journey to the main train station unnecessary.
The 3 St. Mang railway station is more of a stop with a necessary stop. It is on the route to Reutte in Austria and can be reached by train from the main train station in two minutes, which is significantly faster and cheaper than a city bus with a journey time of 25 minutes and a change in the city center.
In the street
Kempten is on the motorway 
Ulm - Feet. Coming from Munich you choose the first 
; if you are at Buchloe leaves, you can reach Kempten via the 
. Lindau can also be reached via the B12. The 
connects Kempten in the south with cities like Oberstdorf or Sonthofen.
By bicycle
- Iller cycle path · Oberstdorf - New Ulm / Ulm
mobility
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In Kempten there is the city bus that connects all the main districts with a dense network of stops at regular intervals. The last buses run on weekdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., after that there are only collective call taxes (AST). On Sundays, a few buses only run until the afternoon. Public transport also connects Kempten with the surrounding districts.
The ZUM (central transfer option) at Albert-Wehr-Platz in the middle of the city park forms a junction for this, another is located at the main train station. Smaller hubs are located at the Forum Allgäu shopping center (Bahnhofstrasse) and at the Residenz / Galeria Kaufhof on the Pfeilergraben.
Tourist Attractions
Old town
- 1 town hall, Rathausplatz 29.
Built in 1368 as a half-timbered house; Expanded to a stone house in 1474. Over the centuries it was rebuilt several times and the originally Gothic town hall was redesigned in the Renaissance style. The town hall fountain from the 17th century stands in front of the town hall. In the 1930s, the facade was again significantly changed and Gothicized again. The town hall fountain from the 17th century stands in front of the town hall.
- Impressive ones can be found on and around Rathausplatz Town houses as the 2 Ponikauhaus (Rathausplatz 12), a stately patrician palace from the 16th century with a baroque gable. Next to it, separated by the narrow Hallgässele, stands the 3 Fürstenhof (Rathausplatz 8), the largest Renaissance building in Kempten, which has had a rococo facade since the 18th century. Crowned heads, such as Emperor Friedrich III, also stayed here during their stays in Kempten. and Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria.
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- 4 City parish church of St. Mang, St.-Mang-Platz 4. Built in 1426 in the Gothic style, it has a 66 m high tower. From 1527 it was the center of the Reformation in the Kempten area and has served as the Protestant parish church since then. Most of the original furnishings were destroyed in the iconoclasm in 1533. Today's neo-Gothic high altar was made in 1893 and was awarded a gold medal at the world exhibition in Chicago that same year.
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- Underground showroom 5 Erasmus Chapel, St. Mang Square. The 13th century cemetery chapel was demolished in 1857. During archaeological investigations in the 2000s, however, around 500 grave sites were uncovered. The archaeologists were able to draw important insights into the early days of urban settlement. The underground showroom provides information about this with a multimedia presentation.
- 6 Burghalde. This elevation in the south of today's old town was already settled in late antiquity. The prince's castle stood here from the High Middle Ages. It was conquered by the town's citizens in 1363 and sold to them after an arbitration decision by the abbot. After that it was first used as a quarry, but at the end of the 15th century it was included as part of the city fortifications and surrounded by a wall with battlements and towers. The fortress, which was expanded by the French in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1703, was razed by imperial troops after the reconquest in 1705 and then fell into disrepair. The ruins were turned into a romantic public park in the 19th century. The Burghalde also offers an excellent view of the city and the Alps.
Abbey city
- 7 Princely residence. Tel.: (0)8373-465. The monumental monastery complex was built between 1651 and 1674. At that time Kempten was the center of a prince monastery, i. H. the abbots of the Benedictine monastery were also rulers of the principality. The medieval monastery on the same site had previously been destroyed in the Thirty Years War. The double courtyard was a completely new architectural concept at the time and subsequently served as a model for many other monasteries in southern Germany, e.g. B. Ottobeuren. After secularization in 1803, the Bavarian military moved here. Today the facility serves as a district and regional court. The splendid residence rooms with rich rococo furnishings are accessible with a guided tour (advance notice by telephone).
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- 8 St. Lorenz Basilica. Early baroque double tower church based on the Italian model, built from 1652 to 1666.
- Courtyard garden (see below #Parks)
- 9 Orangery. Built in 1780 as the northern end of the court garden, late baroque-classicistic, today houses the city library.
- 10 Stables. Built in 1730 as an annex to the residence. Served as the seat of the Alpine Museum until 2017, after a renovation it will house the Allgäu Museum.[outdated]
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- 11 Kornhaus. Striking baroque building, built around 1700. Grain was traded and quoted here. After secularization in 1803 it fell into disrepair until the city of Kempten acquired it in 1875 and set up a ballroom here. Until 1998 the weekly market was held in the vaulted cellar of the Kornhaus in winter. The north wing housed the Allgäu Museum from 1925 to 2018.
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- 12 Zumsteinhaus. Classicist building from 1802, built for the de la Pierre merchant family from Savoy, who Germanized their name to Zumstein. After the restoration in 1959, the Roman Museum and, from 1975, the Natural History Museum were housed here. It has been under construction since 2015 and is due to open as a newly designed city museum in 2019.[outdated]
Cambodunum Archaeological Park
- 13 APC Archaeological Park Cambodunum, Cambodunumweg 3 (main entrance), 87437 Kempten (Allgäu). Tel.: 49(0)831 79731. Open: March to November Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed on Mondays.Price: Adults € 4, children from 10 to 16 € 2. Free entry every 1st Sunday.
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- 14 Gallo-Roman Temple District. The partially reconstructed Roman buildings testify to the more than 2000-year history of Kempten.
- 15 Small thermal baths. Thermal baths and baths of the Roman governor.
- 16 Forum Basilica
Museums
The city of Kempten has been restructuring the museum landscape since 2015. First, the Roman Museum and Natural History Museum in the Zumsteinhaus were dissolved. The Alpine Gallery in the Marstall (branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum) was also closed in 2015. The Allgäu Museum in the Kornhaus will follow at the end of November 2018. Instead, the Kempten Museum is to open in the Zumsteinhaus in autumn 2019, and the Allgäu Museum is to be redesigned in the Marstall.
- 17 Alpine Museum, Landwehrstrasse 4, 87439 Kempten (Allgäu) (in the stables). Tel.: (08 31) 2525-740. historical exhibition on the subject of "Man and Mountains".Open: March to November 18, Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed on Mondays.Price: Admission adults € 4. every 1st so free.
- Showroom Erasmus Chapel. Open: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. March 16 - December 23: daily except Wed; from December 27th to March 15th: open Saturday, Sunday and Monday.Price: Admission adults € 2.50.
- 18 Allgäu Castle Museum, Burghalde 1. Tel.: (0)831 5 12 14 68 (only during opening hours). Private museum, carried by Allgäu Castle Association.Open: Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Price: Entry 2, - €.
Parks
The central one 19 city Park was built in the English style, but reduced in size by numerous building measures. In addition, it lost its attractiveness due to renovation work, which is not supported by the settlement of hundreds of rooks. Only one pavilion reminds of the origins of the park.
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Not far from the city park is the 20 Courtyard garden between the residence and the orangery, which is designed in the baroque style. The original baroque courtyard garden from the 17th and 18th centuries disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century with the secularization of the prince monastery in favor of a gravel area on which the military stationed in the residence carried out exercises. In the late 1950s, the courtyard garden was set up in its current form, although attempts were made to build on the baroque model.
The 21 Engelhaldepark is located in a former gravel pit near the Roman city of Cambodunum. With its artificial lake and numerous green areas, playgrounds and sports fields, it is reminiscent of the Olympic Park in Munich.
The 22 Hood lock system and the neighboring Hoefelmayrpark on the southern outskirts were originally two separate parks. However, with the construction of the Haubenschloßschule, the Allgäu-Gymnasium and residential buildings, the two green spaces were significantly reduced in size and thus effectively united into a single one.
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The 23 Calgeer Park between Adenauerring and Parkstraße on the north-western outskirts was designed as an English landscape garden by the city gardener Dominikus Senn at the beginning of the 20th century - like the city park and the hooded lock complex. It, too, was once larger than it is today, but had to give up space to a military hospital and the Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium.
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The paths along the Iller have been preserved. These run in the south of the city 24 Iller breakthrough, a gorge-like structure protected as a geotope, and further north in floodplains.
Other bodies of water with largely untouched green areas are the 25 Schwabelsberger Weiher at the district of Thingers as well as the 26 City pond in the southwest of the city.
various
activities
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- From the Kempten / Durach airfield there is the possibility of making a sightseeing flight over the foothills of the Alps and viewing the Allgäu mountains from above.
- 1 Cambomare (Bathing and sauna world), Aybühlweg 58. Tel.: (0)831 58 121 -0. Family and adventure pool right in Kempten. In summer it is possible to use the directly adjacent outdoor pool.Price: Entrance to the bathing and sauna world all day 18 €.
- 2 Golf park Schloßgut Lenzfried, Friedensweg 4. Tel.: (0)831-5129550. 9 hole par 68.
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shop
The pedestrian zone in the heart of Kempten extends from the residence to the Forum Allgäu. Kempten is one of the cities with a high level of central shopping.
- 1 Forum Allgäu (Shopping center), August-Fischer-Platz 1.
kitchen
Cafes
- 1 Residence cafe, Residenzplatz 29. Tel.: 49 831 23857.
- 2 Artist house, Beethovenstrasse 2. Tel.: (0)831 - 20593786, Email: [email protected]. The Künstlerhaus sees itself as an association for the preservation and promotion of art, social and corporate culture.
- 3 Times cafe-bar, Bahnhofstrasse 44. Tel.: (0)831-24868.
- Cafe and pastry shop carpenter, Kaufbeurer Strasse 21, 87437 Kempten (Allgäu) (below the Cambodunum park). Tel.: 49 831 73650. Nice café including pastry shop with an adjoining room.Open: Mo: 11:30 a.m. - 00:00 a.m., Tue: Closed, Wed: 11:30 a.m. - 00:00 a.m., Thu: 11:30 a.m. - 00:00 a.m., Fri: 11:30 a.m. - 00:00 a.m., Sa: 11:30 am - 8:00 pm, Sun: 10:00 am - 12:00 am.
Restaurants
Cheap
- 4 L'Osteria, Bahnhofstrasse 1. Tel.: (0)831 69 71 05 70.
- 5 Miss Saigon (Restaurant and delivery service), Strigelstrasse 1. Tel.: (0)831 52770137.
- 6 The Bachtelweiher garden, Am Bachtelweiher 8, 87437 Kempten. Tel.: 49 831 93061180. Home cooking, vegetarian dishes.Open: Wed to Sat 11 a.m. - 10 p.m., Sun public holidays 10 a.m. - 10 p.m., warm meals from 12 p.m., Mon, Tue closed, except on public holidays.Price: main courses from € 7.
medium
- 7 A Thousand Miles to Dublin (Irish pub), At the Sutt 13.
- 8 Meckatzer Bräu-Engel (Brewery tavern), Prälat-Götz-Strasse 17.
- 9 To the pen (Brewery restaurant), Stiftsplatz 1. Tel.: 49 831 22 3 88.
- 10 Shalander, Fischersteige 9. Tel.: 49 831 16866.
Upscale
- 11 Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Füssener Str. 96. Tel.: 49 (0) 831 5718 150. Hotel ****, restaurant with several dining rooms and a large garden.
nightlife
Cheap
- 1 Drop-in, Memminger Strasse 8. Tel.: (0)831 23297.
medium
- 2 Park Theater Kempten, Linggstrasse 2. Tel.: (0)831 200 62 33. Discotheque with changing DJs and some well-known artists.
- 3 Club Mia, Bahnhofstrasse 35. Tel.: (0)831 5237585.
accommodation
Cheap
- 1 Green Living Inn, Konrad-Zuse-Weg 1-2.
- 2 Guest house by the birches, Goethestrasse 25. Tel.: (0)831 28008.
- 3 Smart motel, Edisonstrasse 4.
medium
- 4 Hotel Peterhof, Salzstrasse 1.
- 5 Hotel Furstenhof, Rathausplatz 8.
- 6 Hotel Gasthof Waldhorn, Step 80 (in the Steufzgen district).
- 7 Landhotel Hirsch, Lenzfrieder Strasse 55 (in the district of Lenzfried).
Upscale
- 8 Park Hotel, Beethovenstrasse 3-5.
- Bavarian court - Füssener Strasse 96
Learn
There is the Kempten University of Applied Sciences in Kempten and there is also an adult education center. In order to do justice to Kempten's character as a school town, there is also a vocational school center for commercial and manual professions.
Work
security
Kempten is a safe city during the day. The crime rate is comparatively low. Pickpockets are largely unknown. In the darker times, poorly lit areas such as alleys and backyards should be avoided. Kempten is considered a hub for the international drug trade with mafia structures. This has also been reported several times in the national media in the past.
health
1 Kempten Clinic, Robert-Weixler-Strasse 50. Tel.: (0)831-530-0. The Kempten Clinic has been expanded continuously over the past few years, with more distant departments being brought together in one place. Medical care is therefore available centrally.
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Other larger facilities are numerous medical centers with pharmacies and doctors.
Practical advice
- 2 Tourist Information Kempten, Rathausplatz 24. Tel.: 49(0)831 2525 237. Open: all year round. Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., May-Oct Sat 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Allgäuer Zeitung, daily newspaper
- Kreisbote, free weekly newspaper
- The new RSA radio, regional radio station
- Radio Galaxy, radio station with a regional studio
- Allgäu TV, regional TV station
- Deutsche Post branch - Albert-Ott-Straße - Brodkorbweg - Salzstraße
trips
Swimming lakes:
- Herrenwieser Weiher - Still waters on the edge of the urban area
- Niedersonthofer See - The lake is about 7 km south of Kempten: swimming and water sports; Tents by the lake
Web links
http://www.kempten.de - Official website of Kempten
