The municipality schwangau is the meeting place of the bunting mountains and the Allgäuer sea-plate and 1090 as schwangau (of Castrum Swangowe) was documentary for the first time mentioned. It praises itself with the castles neuschwanstein and hohenschwangau, which in the local part hohenschwangau are. Schwangau became 1926 “air health resort” and received to 1986 the descriptor “welfare-climatic health resort”. By accumulating of the Forggen lake in the years the municipality lost 1953/54 1071 h reason, which a quarter of the surface at that time constituted and changed thus its structure. The municipality schwangau consists of the following local parts: Schwangau, Hohenschwangau, Mühlberg, Brunnen, Waltenhofen, Horn und Altenschrofen.

The Tegelberg (1720m) already welcomes its guests at the valley station, where a 760m long summer Bob course is. On the Tegelberg the Tegelberg aerial ropeway ends, which once per hour approx. 470 persons on the mountain to carry knows, where itself the Tegelberg house (Hütte), as well as a tourist cafe finds. The Tegelberg is a popular goal to the mountain moves, but there is also the possibility of the kite flying, Paragliding and tandem flights. Directly beside the valley station 1934 a Roman mansion plant were discovered, which partial was excavated and the public was made accessible.

Before the gates of schwangau, in the middle the baroque pilgrimage church pc. lies in the green field. Colomans, which since that 15.Century of those a goal is. Coloman, on a Pilger journey from its Irish homeland to Jerusalem after the legend in Schwanengau rested, to have preached and also the cattle guard is, and also today still by catholics with diseases of humans and animal one calls, as well as with flood and cloud break.
One assumes, between 1350 and 1400 the first chapel was established. The Pilger journey to the Colomans church constantly gained significance, a lay document occupies, in the emperor Karl V. in the year 1552 for the Colomans issued an own market right letter.

Plans for the enlargement of the Colomans church, set domestic master craftsmen, by whom Plasterer Johann Schmutzner was doomed over, whereby the Colomans church was the first large work of the artist and building master, these in the year 1685.
At each 2.October Sunday, this year at the 8.October stands its work, together with Saint Coloman in the center of the festivities, where then over 200 riders on magnificently decorated horses among the admiration of thousand Inhabitant from Schwangau and its guests against 9:00 o'clock of the Schwangauer the measuring victim tightens city hall to the pilgrimage church outside to celebrate over there against 10:00.
Following the service the riders orbit the place of worship after old custom three times, before one lets the celebration end as in old times then approximately around the Colomans church merrily.

The Marien's bridge is over a bridge about the Pöllat canyon, immediately behind and directly obviously from the castle Neuschwanstein.
King Maximillian II. by Bavaria 1845 had a rider bar from wood over the Pöllat canyon put on. This became 1886 by king Ludwig II., by iron construction replaces. 1984 were restored the bridge, whereby the steel girders were renewed, because the railings are received until today in the original.