Wolpertswende: Chapel and Hiking Trails

Wolpertswende combines sacred architectural history with trails in the shared local recreation area of Wolpertswende and Fronreute. This provides a clear focus for your search for a hotel in Wolpertswende: you can plan your stay around Gangolf Chapel and local church history, or focus on hiking and cycling trails. Which aspect matters more depends on whether you want to prioritize cultural history or time spent on the trails.

Architectural and Church History

Gangolf Chapel was built in 1695 over a spring as a hexagonal chapel and features a Baroque altar. The Catholic church in Wolpertswende also includes Romanesque elements. The local sacred architecture thus brings together different features: the chapel’s hexagonal shape and Baroque altar, alongside Romanesque elements in the church.

The history also includes the Wolpertswende–Mochenwangen hospital lordship. Its population consisted of farmers and small-scale craftspeople; they suffered greatly through the many wars up to the Napoleonic era. This historical perspective complements the architectural history with an account of the living conditions of people under the lordship at the time. Wolpertswende’s history therefore encompasses not only architectural features but also the hardships faced by its population.

Hiking Trails and Landscape

The shared local recreation area of Wolpertswende and Fronreute has an extensive, well-signposted network of hiking routes and themed trails. There is an information point with hiking maps in the center of Wolpertswende. When planning a hike, you can consider individual themed trails and hiking routes within the larger network; the maps at the information point provide a practical guide.

The Mountain and Valley Tour starts at the Mochenwangen sports ground, passes through Mochenwangen Forest to Segelbach, goes past Hatzenturm to Wolpertswende, then returns to Mochenwangen via Gangolf Chapel and Moosehren. Unlike the general choice of trails in the network, this tour specifies a particular sequence of a starting point and intermediate locations before returning to Mochenwangen. This can help you narrow down your options: if you are looking for a specific route, you can use this tour as a guide; if you would first like to compare different options, the shared area offers an extensive network of hiking and themed trails.

For visitors who also want to take in distant views while hiking, the view from Hatzenturm extends as far as Blönried Abbey, Reute Abbey, the Vorarlberg Alps, and Lake Constance. Wolpertswende and Fronreute are in the western part of the Ravensburg district. You can explore the Upper Swabian landscape on the edge and heights of the central Schussen Valley by cycling and hiking trails. This adds a broader landscape setting to the local trail network, with cycling routes as well as hiking trails.

Ravensburg as a Broader Travel Destination

The broader travel destination of Ravensburg brings additional cultural themes into view. The Humpis Quarter Museum opened in July 2009; its permanent exhibition spans five buildings in a late medieval residential quarter. The Allgäu-Upper Swabia Farmhouse Museum in Wolfegg illustrates how people in the region used to work, live, and make their homes. Twenty-eight historic buildings have been preserved there, some of them several centuries old. Achberg Castle is the Ravensburg district’s cultural center, stands high above the Argental Valley, and showcases Baroque architecture. These examples offer different points of focus: late medieval domestic life, past everyday and working practices, and Baroque architecture.

Discover more destinations: Vogt, Bad Waldsee, Amtzell, Waldburg, Schlier, Schwarzenbach, Wilhelmsdorf, Wolfegg.

Go to the broader travel overview: Ravensburg.