State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Wuerttemberg

The Cistercians had six monasteries in upper Swabia. Heiligkreuztal Monastery is the best preserved of all.

Monument to eternal love

Next to the priest’s house is the psalmists’ house, where singers and staff were housed.

Where the old ancestral castle of Württemberg once stood, the Rotenberg Sepulchral Chapel can now be found.

Much like the Gießübel-Talhau cluster of burial mounds shown here, the surrounding area is home to numerous burial mounds in which valuable objects have been found

Europe's most important Celtic Citadel

The 400-square-meter dwellings, or Herrenhäuser, i. e. the dwellings of the local ruler, were built atop the citadel in the 6th century BCE

The gate to the outer ward was a chamber gate with a stone base; it is by far the most spectacular gate of its kind anywhere north of the Alps