Memmingen: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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EUR 52 - 110 Hotel Hiemer
 Just a 5-minute drive from Memmingen Train Station and town centre, this country-style hotel in the Alpine Foothills features a restaurant and beer ga… MoreEUR 79 - 155 Hotel Weisses Ross
 Set within a listed, 15th-century building, this 4-star hotel offers award-winning accommodation and cuisine in the heart of Memmingen´s old tow… MoreEUR 82 - 118 Restaurant & Hotel Engelkeller
 The Hotel Engelkeller provides modern rooms, free parking spaces, and a restaurant serving local cuisine. It is located in Memmingen town centre, just… MoreEUR 36 - 124 Hotel am Südring
 Situated in Memmingen town centre in the heart of Swabia, this welcoming hotel offers comfortably furnished rooms, a charming bar and excellent links … MoreEUR 125 - 150 Haus Marlene
 These holiday apartments in the village of Trunkelsberg offer a big garden, a swimming pool and free Wi-Fi. Memmingen town centre is just 3.5 km away.… MoreEUR 64 - 118 Drexel´s Parkhotel
 The Parkhotel with its adjacent buildings, the guesthouse ”Kastanienhof” and the ”Küchlinhaus”, is located by the town hall i… MoreEUR 56 - 79 Gästehaus Schmid - Hotel Garni
 This guest house offers free Wi-Fi internet in public areas, free parking and a games room. It is about 6 km from central Memmingen and 2 km from Memm… MoreEUR 60 - 86 Allgäuhotel Memmingen Nord
 Situated just 500 metres from the motorway, this 3-star hotel is conveniently located in Memmingen´s business district, just 2.5 km north of the… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memmingen: Guide
Memmingen is a town in the Bavaria|Bavarian Regierungsbezirk|administrative region Swabia (administrative region)|Swabia in Germany. The district-free town is located at the border to Baden-Württemberg, at the river Iller.
History
It is believed that on the site of present day Memmingen in the time of the Alemanic settlement was established and in the 7th century a palace of the king of the Franks' .
Memmingen was connected to Welfian Duke Welf VI founded the town of Memmingen. In 1286 it became an Imperial Free Town, responsible only to the Kaiser.
Christoph Schappeler, the preacher at St. Martin's in Memmingen during the early 1500's, was an important figure during the Protestant Reformation and the Peasants' War. His support for peasant rights helped to draw peasants to Memmingen.
The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed was written (probably by Schappeler and Sebastian Lotzer) in early 1525. This was a religious petition borrowing from Martin Luther|Luther's ideas to appeal for peasant rights. Within two months of its publication in Memmingen, 25,000 copies of the tract were in circulation around Europe.
In the 1630's Memmingen was at centre stage during the Thirty Years' War, and the Imperial generalissimo Wallenstein was quartered in the town when he was dramatically dismissed from service. From 1632 Memmingen was briefly garrisoned by the Swedish army, and became a base of operations for Swedish troops in Swabia.
Following the reorganization of Germany in 1802, Memmingen became part of Bavaria. The 19th century saw the slow economic deterioration of the town, which was halted only with the building of a railroad following the course of the River Iller.
Since World War II Memmingen has been a developing town, with a rate of economic growth above the average for Bavaria.
Sightseeing
Memmingen has considerable tourist interest, mainly because large areas of the medieval old town survived both World War II and the tasteless post-war reconstruction which has ruined many other German cities. The old town contains many interesting houses of patricians, some in the gothic style.
Every year Memmingen celebrates the Fischertag (Fisherman's day), recreating medieval traditions. Every four years Memmingen re-enacts the events around the visit of Wallenstein in 1630.
Politics
Mayor: Dr. Ivo Holzinger (Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD) (as of 2006)
Geography
Memmingen is located at the western border of Bavaria at the river Iller, 50 km south of Ulm, and 30 km north of Kempten im Allgäu. The landscape or region beginning with Memmingen is called Unterallgäu and forms a part of the Allgäu. It is reached by the A7 and the A96 motorways and connected to the railroads Munich-Lindau and Ulm-Kempten-Oberstdorf.
Trade and Economy
Most of its enterprises are Small and Medium-sized Enterprise|SMEs. Of importance are
Rohde & Schwarz
Twin towns
Memmingen is Town twinning|twinned with the following towns:
Auch (France)
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