Kösching combines seasonal swimming with insights into local history and a large, continuous forest. This offers a range of options for planning your trip: time at the outdoor pool, exploring topics related to the fort and parish church, or discovering the Kösching Forest. What you focus on depends on whether you are more interested in culture, water or landscape.
Bad am Berg: outdoor pool and sauna
During the summer season, Bad am Berg offers an outdoor pool with a sunbathing lawn, swimming pool, slide and separate children’s area. This means you can enjoy swimming and time on the sunbathing lawn, as well as the slide and dedicated area for children. The sauna area also includes a sauna and steam bath. If you plan to make use of these facilities during your stay, check the operator’s latest information before visiting, as details may change.
Museum and traces of the fort
The upper floor of the Kösching Market Museum displays exhibits on the history of the market town, agriculture and crafts. These three topics offer different ways to explore local history: you can focus on the development of the town or choose agriculture and crafts as topics in their own right. The museum brings these aspects together, so you do not have to limit yourself to just one.
Another link to the past lies beneath the town centre: the Germanicum fort is located there, about 100 metres from the parish church. The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary has a Baroque interior. The museum, fort and church thus represent different topics that can each be explored independently when learning about Kösching.
The Kösching Forest
The large Kösching Forest, preserved as a continuous woodland, is part of the municipality of Kösching. It stretches north from Kösching to Denkendorf, and from Stammhamm to Mendorf from west to east. For choosing a destination, the forest offers a focus on the landscape alongside the cultural attractions in town.
A distinct regional perspective: the wider destination of Eichstätt
The wider destination of Eichstätt also offers its own attractions, which are not part of Kösching’s facilities or sights. The exhibition at the Jura Museum Eichstätt focuses on fossils from the Solnhofen limestone, and also displays the original Eichstätt Archaeopteryx. The Eichstätt Fossil Trail is a moderately challenging, nine-kilometre circular route for families. The museum and trail offer different experiences: an exhibition featuring fossils and an original specimen, and a route with a specified length, difficulty and circular layout.
Eichstätt’s history is also linked to Willibaldsburg Castle: Bishop Berthold Burggraf von Zollern had it built in 1355, and it served as the bishop’s residence until 1725. The 420-metre-long castle retains its walls and bastions, the arsenal, the 63-metre-long gate hall and the Gemmingen building with its two towers. The castle is also home to the 1,500-square-metre Bastion Garden. There, the Hortus Eystettensis, destroyed during the Thirty Years’ War, was brought back to life after 400 years; visitors can discover many of the original plant species.
Other points of interest in Eichstätt include Cathedral Square, located on the oldest settled ground in the city, and the Eichstätt gourmet restaurants. Several times a year, they offer special dishes under the motto “Eichstätt cooks...”, including spicy Altmühltal lamb dishes. This adds historic sites, garden culture and recurring seasonal food offerings to the regional perspective, without attributing these attractions to Kösching.
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View the wider travel overview: Eichstätt.
