Polling: Collegiate Church and Art in the Fischerbau

Polling brings together religious art, exhibitions and group tours. If you’re looking for hotels in Polling, you can plan your stay around these interests. Visiting arrangements vary: Dan Flavin’s installation in the Fischerbau can be seen from October to April by prior arrangement, while the Minis-Raritäten-Stadl offers group tours.

Town Centre, Church Art and Getting Your Bearings

The Polling Museum is in the town centre, as is Heilig Kreuz Monastery. In Polling’s St. Salvator Collegiate Church, a statue of the Virgin Mary dating from 1526 sits on the triumphal arch opposite the pulpit, which dates from 1705. These two dates offer a concrete comparison of two furnishings from different centuries in the same place. On Jörg-Ganghofer-Straße in Polling, part of the former dairy building is presented as a dairy museum. The STOA169 Hall is nearby, around 2 km from Polling town centre. This makes it easy to distinguish stops in the town centre from an art venue a little further away.

Exhibitions and Art in the Fischerbau

The Fischerbau has been used for exhibitions since 2003. Dan Flavin’s blue-and-red installation “untitled 1970” is located there; the address is Fischerbau, Weilheimer Str. 12–14, 82398 Polling. From October to April, the installation can be seen by prior arrangement by phone or email. Arrange your visit in advance during this period and check the current visiting options. The seasonal opening period and the need to book in advance are important to keep in mind when planning a visit specifically to see the installation.

Group Tours and Concerts

The Minis-Raritäten-Stadl offers group tours, with coffee and homemade cake available on request. St. Salvator Collegiate Church regularly hosts concerts featuring renowned organists from Germany and abroad. These offer different reasons to visit: a tour aimed at groups and recurring concert events. If you’re planning a tour, arrange it directly with the Stadl; before attending a concert, it’s a good idea to check the latest dates.

The Wider Travel Destination of Weilheim-Schongau

Weilheim-Schongau is in the Pfaffenwinkel travel region. The district is bordered by the Lech to the west, the Ammer flows through its central area, and the Loisach runs along its eastern boundary. This regional context broadens the interests you can explore in Polling to include other cultural and landscape themes across the wider travel destination.

One notable church in Weilheim-Schongau is the Wieskirche near Steingaden. It was built by Dominikus Zimmermann between 1745 and 1754 and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983. The Wieskirche welcomes visitors to attend services, listen to summer concerts and enjoy quiet reflection; dates may vary. For a regional perspective, it offers a different focus from Polling’s art and exhibition venues.

Other interests lead to different themes in the Weilheim-Schongau travel destination: the Penzberg Mining Museum preserves the memory of the local pitch coal mining industry, which operated from 1796 to 1966. The museum offers multilingual tours for international visitors, families and school classes. In Raisting, the approximately 5-kilometre Earth Station hiking trail starts at the railway station. The circular route passes through the Earth Station, by large satellite dishes and by the Radom industrial monument with its historic Antenna 1. At the regional level, industrial history, church architecture and a walk through a technical site offer different themes to choose from.

Discover more destinations: Penzberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Bernbeuren, Raisting, Weilheim in Oberbayern, Altenstadt, Wessobrunn, Habach

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