Hopfen am See
Lakeside spa village with a Romanesque hilltop church and the ruins of an early stone castle.
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This guide to Hopfen am See, the lakeside village just outside Füssen, starts at the belfry of its Romanesque parish church of St. Peter and Paul on the hill above the Hopfensee. It follows an old local legend of a town beneath the lake and the sexton of Hopfen who rang the village bells, and asks what folklorists make of drowned towers. Best heard standing where you can see both the stone tower and the water.
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