Fussen Hotels

Fussen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgu located 5 kilometres from the Austrian border. It is situated on the banks of the Lech river. The River Lech flows into the Forggensee. Fussen's coat of arm shows a triskelion. It is a sister city to Helen, Georgia.It had been a settlement in Roman times on the Via Claudia Augusta, a road that leads southwards to northern Italy and northwards to the former regional capital of the Roman province called Raetia, the capital of which was Augusta Vindelicum today's Augsburg. The original name of Füssen was or, which derives from Latin, meaning probably referring to the Lech gorge. In Late Antiquity Fussen was the home of a part of the Legio III Italica, which was stationed there to guard the important trade route over the Alps.The the former summer residence of the prince bishops of Augsburg and one of Bavaria's largest and best preserved late Gothic castle complexes, is Fussen's landmark. Today the castle houses a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Collections of Paintings, which focuses on late Gothic and Renaissance works of art. Below the Hohes Schloss is the Baroque complex of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, whose history goes back to the 9th century