웅거하우저 발트‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪9‬개의 천연기념물

VERY healthy for young and old.

The "Geological Organs" are conglomerate rocks where carbonic acid seepage water has gradually eroded the limestone over millennia. The resulting stone tubes are up to 15 meters high.

With cloister up the adjacent mountain

Located at the entrance to Niederrieden.

The region around Ottobeuren is now called Kneippland® Unterallgäu – after Pastor Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897), the famous hydrotherapist, known worldwide as the “water doctor”.

Update: The path was reopened today, Monday, October 7th, 2024 by the municipality of Wolfertschwenden. The municipality of Wolfertschwenden has temporarily closed the path at the Geological Organs, as of May 8th, 2024: https://wolfertschwenden.orts.app/wegereparatur-dringend-notwendig-voruebergehende-wegsperrung_Y0FU

Kneipp facility available to cool your feet.

The Virgin Mary depicted and venerated here is that of Lourdes. This well-known Marian pilgrimage site is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by a large number of people every year, including many sick people hoping for healing. The devotional image of the Mother of God has spread widely, not only in France, and believers have built Lourdes chapels and grottos everywhere. The ecclesiastical memorial day "Our Lady of Lourdes" is on February 11th, this is the anniversary of the apparition of Mary (1858), when the Mother of God appeared to the 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto not far from Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of only 35. On December 8 (the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary) 1933, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI. The commemoration of the Lourdes Madonna is also World Day of the Sick.