Vöhringen: Nature, Churches and Weekly Market

Vöhringen brings together recreational areas, protected landscapes and churches from different eras. There is also a regular weekly market. If you are looking for a hotel in Vöhringen, these themes can help guide your stay planning: nature, sacred architecture or a Saturday morning at the market.

Nature and Leisure in Vöhringen

The city’s recreational areas include Lake Vöhringen and the Grüne Lunge (Green Lung). The Untere Illerauen nature reserve covers around 100 hectares. Northwest of Vöhringen, near Illerzell, you will also find the Wochenau and Illerzeller Auwald nature reserve, one of the last riverside forest areas along the Iller. The protected areas have different focal points: the Untere Illerauen is notable for its approximate area, while the Wochenau and Illerzeller Auwald are significant as one of the last riverside forest areas along the Iller.

The “Rue de Vizille” play park offers a different kind of attraction. Its features include a climbing course, a jungle rope bridge and climbing nets; the yellow rubber mounds are particularly eye-catching. Alongside its climbing features, they give the park a distinctive appearance. As play equipment may change, it is advisable to check what is currently available before your visit.

Churches and Weekly Market

The late Gothic Marienkirche, dating from the mid-15th century, is Vöhringen’s landmark. In Illerberg, St. Martin’s Parish Church is considered a gem of Swabian-Bavarian Baroque art. Together, the churches offer contrasting art-historical highlights: late Gothic architecture and Baroque. If sacred architecture is important to your trip, both churches form a distinct focus within Vöhringen’s cultural profile.

Vöhringen’s weekly market takes place on Saturdays from 7 to 11 a.m. If you would like to include it in your stay plans, check the date in advance.

More to Explore in the Wider Neu-Ulm Destination

In the wider Neu-Ulm destination, the Edwin Scharff Museum on Petrusplatz, in the heart of Neu-Ulm, brings an art museum and a children’s museum together under one roof. At the children’s museum, hands-on and interactive stations invite visitors of all ages to take part. The Donaubad in Neu-Ulm also adds to the regional offering: guests can use the sauna, and in winter enjoy ice skating at an ice sports facility. From Easter to October, the Bavarian Bee Museum lets visitors observe a queen bee and her colony in a glass display case and learn about bee life.

The wider Neu-Ulm destination also offers a range of historical attractions. Caponniere 4 in Neu-Ulm is part of the Ulm/Neu-Ulm Federal Fortress and is one of the city’s few well-preserved historic buildings. The Roggenburg Monastery Museum presents the history of the Imperial Abbey and its territory from its foundation in 1126 to secularization in 1803. It also features sacred art from the 17th and 18th centuries, focusing on the Baroque, popular piety and the history of religious orders.

Gardens and birdwatching are further nature-related attractions in the wider Neu-Ulm destination. The grounds of the Museum of Garden Culture are home to more than twenty themed gardens, including the insect garden, expanded in 2025, and the “Medicinal Plants of the World” garden. Two hundred different bird species have already been spotted at Plessenteich in Gerlenhofen, a district of Neu-Ulm. An observation tower offers views of resting and nesting birds there in every season.

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