Rieden, Swabia

Germaringen is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.

Pforzen is a municipality in Ostallgäu, Bavaria.

Riederloh was the name of two camps providing forced laborers to the gunpowder and ammunition facility of Dynamit AG (DAG) in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria. Located approximately 80 km to the southwest of Munich in Nazi Germany, the camps were named "Riederloh" and "Riederloh II" respectively.

The Hammerschmiede clay pit (German: Tongrube Hammerschmiede) is a fossil bearing locality in Pforzen, Bavaria, Germany most well known for the discovery of Danuvius guggenmosi, the potentially earliest known bipedal ape. With an age of 11.66-11.42 Ma the site dates to the transition between the Middle and Late Miocene epoch, providing an important window into the faunal changes taking place during this time. This correlates to the time just after the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary, and the MN zones 7/8. It is one of the most well-known Miocene sites, with over 15,000 individual fossils and 117 species having been discovered as of 2020. It has been called "the most important German paleontological discovery of the last decades".

Westendorf is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. The municipality of Westendorf, which consists of the villages of Dösingen and Westendorf, is located in the Allgäu region, about eleven kilometres east of Kaufbeuren, in the northern part of the Ostallgäu district.

Mauerstetten is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in the southwest of Bavaria in Germany. Its foundations dates back to the early 9th century, and its name actually means "place of walls", due to ruins of supposedly Roman origin found there. Currently, Mauerstetten has about 2,800 inhabitants living in the four parts of the community: Mauerstetten itself, Steinholz, Hausen and Frankenried. Agriculture still plays a large role in the village, but some modest industry is to be found there as well. The village has a primary school, a kindergarten, two banks (Sparkasse and RaiBa), a small grocery store, a bakery, and a small post office. In the center of Mauerstetten stands the church St. Vitus.

Kaufbeuren (German pronunciation: [kaʊfˈbɔʏʁən]; Bavarian: Kaufbeiren) is an independent town in the Regierungsbezirk of Swabia, Bavaria. The town is an enclave within the district of Ostallgäu.

Bad Wörishofen (German pronunciation: [ˈvøːʁɪsˌhoːfə̆n]) is a spa town in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany, known for the water-cure (hydrotherapy) developed by Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), a Catholic priest who lived there for 42 years. Many of the resort hotels and boarding-houses in Bad Wörishofen offer their guests treatment using Kneipp's methods. The new spa complex out of town is called Therme Bad Wörishofen. Time magazine called the town "the secret capital of health".

Kaufbeuren station (German: Bahnhof Kaufbeuren) is a railway station in the municipality of Kaufbeuren, located in Bavaria, Germany.

Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren is a brewery in the town of Kaufbeuren, Germany. It is the oldest brewery in Swabia, mentioned in official records from the year 1308. It is a joint stock company with shares traded on the Munich stock exchange.

Irsee Abbey, also the Imperial Abbey of Irsee (German: Reichsabtei Irsee), was a Benedictine abbey located at Irsee near Kaufbeuren in Bavaria. The self-ruling imperial abbey was secularized in the course of the German mediatization of 1802–1803 and its territory annexed to Bavaria. The buildings of the former abbey now house a conference and training centre for Bavarian Swabia.

Therme Bad Wörishofen is a spa complex in Bad Wörishofen, Germany (near Munich). It is called Therme despite not having a Roman Bath. The complex is divided into two parts: the Thermenparadies (in English the "Thermae Paradise") and the SaunaOase (in English the "Sauna Oasis"). The Thermenparadies houses the main swimming pools, including jacuzzis and showers. In the SaunaOase there are saunas, showers, swimming pools and a solarium. It is affiliated with the more famous Therme Erding in the nearby town of Erding, east of Munich Airport.