page_title: Augsburg Western Woods Nature Park
section_title: Further attractions and sights in the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder Nature Park
hierarchical_section_title: Augsburg Western Woods Nature Park / Sights and attractions / Further attractions and sights in the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder Nature Park
caption_attribution_description: Fugger-Schloss Kichheim
context_page_description: The Augsburg-Western Woods Nature Park is one of the two nature parks in Bavarian Swabia. The 1988 founded park has a size of 1,175 km².
  The nature park is bordered by the rivers Danube, Wertach, Schmutter, Flossach and Mindel. The biggest part of it is located in Augsburg and extends to the edge of the districts Unterallgäu, Günzburg and Dillingen.
context_section_description: people's observatory in Streitheim
  Nemetons and former castles, built in the Middle Ages (for example the Haldenburg near Schwabegg)
  Fuggercastle Kirchheim, from the 18th century, with the „Cedarhall“, one of the most beautiful renaissancehalls of Europe. The hall has a coffered ceiling with timber of Cedar from the Lebanon and 14 native kinds of wood, all in natura.
  pilgrimage church of St. Michael in Violau and observatory from the 18th century
  pilgrimage church of Maria Vesperbild near Ziemetshausen
  pilgrimage church in Biberbach
  pilgrimage church of Allerheiligen near Scheppach (municipality Jettingen-Scheppach)
  church of St. Thekla in Welden
  many little baroque- and rococo-churches in the "Swabian Pfaffenwinkel"
caption: Fuggercastle Kirchheim
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