Friedberg: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

A special cultural focal point in Friedberg is the City Museum, which has been housed in Wittelsbach Castle since 1886. This particularly appeals to travelers interested in Friedberg's cultural history.

You can rent a holiday apartment in Friedberg.

Culture and History

Since October 2018, Wittelsbach Castle has been used as a modern cultural and event center.

The castle originated as a medieval fortress, founded around 1257, and was converted into a Renaissance hunting and pleasure palace by 1559.

In the area around Friedberg are the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg and Augsburg Zoo. The Jakoberwall Bastion, Jakober Tor, Rotes Tor, and Augsburg Botanical Garden are also located in this area.

Landscape and Leisure

Geisberg and Mühlberg are located in the immediate vicinity of Friedberg.

Friedberg lies in the varied hilly landscape of the Wittelsbacher Land.

Places of Interest and Everyday Life

Friedberg's historic old town contains numerous sights as well as listed historic buildings and reflects more than 750 years of local history.

Friedberg offers a year-round cultural program with concerts, readings, theater performances, and exhibitions.

The area around Friedberger See offers a range of leisure activities.

Well-signposted paths lead around Friedberg through a hiking and cycling landscape on historic cultural ground.

Friedberg's cultural history includes clockmaking and faience production, which were associated with its heyday in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Friedberg's historic old town is connected to Wittelsbach Castle and the town hall.

Friedberg's old town has shops, restaurants, and cafés, as well as public drinking fountains and charging stations for electric vehicles.

For further orientation, there are also the local pages Pöttmes, Aindling, Mering, Kissing, Affing, Steindorf, Dasing, and Baar.

For the higher-level travel overview: Aichach-Friedberg.