How to do a day trip from Munich to Landsberg am Lech: a fairytale town in Bavaria

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Here’s how to do a fantastic day trip from Munich to the fairytale Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech, which lies between Munich and Augsburg in Germany. Landsberg am Lech is on another level of quaintness and 100% worth spending a day in if you want to escape the big city. It’s on the famous Romantic Road, which takes you around all the prettiest towns in Bavaria. Cobbled streets and rows of pastel-coloured buildings are par for the course.

Landsberg am Lech is most famous for being the place where Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, while imprisoned there. The prison still exists, but fortunately Landsberg has more to it than this horrible history.

So here are some of the things to do, see and eat on a day trip to Landsberg am Lech…

Admire Landsberg am Lech’s pastel-coloured buildings and cobbled streets

The main square in the town delivers highly on the good old pastel-coloured buildings front.

You’ll find it bustling with locals – very few other tourists, which is always a good thing when you’re after a bit of escapism.

The tower dominating the square is apparently known as the Schöner Turm (beautiful tower), which is a bit nicer than its official name, Schmalzturm (lard tower). Yum.

Find some fairytale cottages you wish you could live in

Wherever I go, I tend to find somewhere I’d like to live. In Landsberg, I found at least 10 houses I’d be happy to have… if I win the lottery.

The one below is should be in the dictionary under ‘autumnal’. I was squealing at this point.

Wander through rows of independent shops

The main road of shops in Landsberg winds along to the town walls. Although it has the usual H&M and generic chains, there are plenty of cute little independents shops to browse through.

It’s also a good area to stand in the middle of the road and almost get run over because you’re trying to take a photo of all the colourful buildings. Ahem.

Admire the gorgeous Rathaus (town hall)

You knew this was coming didn’t you? Bavarian towns love a good Rathaus and Landsberg is no exception.

Its town hall is a solid 10/10 for effort, with all kinds of intricate gold detail on the facade. It’s in the aforementioned main square, looming over the city very impressively.

As in Munich, the tourist information office is located inside the Rathaus.

Go for a walk above the town

If the sun is out and you have any energy left from running round the cobbled streets squealing at pastel houses, there’s a hill you can walk up behind the town that will lead you to the Neues Stadtmuseum. This was er, resoundingly closed when we went, so make sure you check opening times if it’s important to you. 

There are some gorgeous views from up there.

I was glad I had flat and grippy trainers on though because it is fairly steep. 

Eat something traditional and oh so Bavarian: where to eat in Landsberg am Lech

Lunch at Fischerwirt: a very Bavarian inn

Everything always comes back to food on this blog. Sorrynotsorry.

My chosen lunch destination while in Landsberg for the day was Fischerwirt, a cosy old Bavarian inn.

I had the very affordable lunch menu, including kässpätzle (a better version of macaroni cheese). And a pint of Helles – naturlich.

Amusingly, I turned up at half one and they stopped serving lunch at 2, so the food was almost literally thrown at me to hurry me out. I’m so fond of Bavarian efficiency and kind of enjoy the horror you’re greeted with if you don’t do things at designated times. Lunch is between 12 and 2 in most places and you have to fit in with that. Or starve to death.

Obviously there’s always time for a quick post-lunch shot when your top accidentally matches a golden tree in the background.

Afternoon tea, Bavarian-style: tea and cake at the very cute Lechcafe

About 4pm, I needed some sugary sustenance in the form of kaffee und kuchen. Only tea instead of coffee. I apologise to all German people but it will always be tea and cake to me. I just can’t get my head around coffee at the best of times.

Little Lechcafé has chalkboard menus (always a good sign) and is pastel blue (v cute). It is a ‘kleines literaturcafé’ (little book café). It also does real English tea with milk! The lady serving was lovely. She didn’t even recoil in horror giving me a little pot of milk instead of making me drink the tea black or with lemon, German style. Perhaps she’d had UK visitors before. She very helpfully reminded me of the German word for gloves (handschuhe, if you’re interested, which is quite literally, ‘hand shoes’ – it doesn’t get any more German than that does it?!).

The cake i had was some incredible homemade layered creation called a ‘kalterhund‘ (cold dog). I have no idea how it got the name but it was beyond delicious.

Overall… the perfect fairytale day trip from Munich

At the end of the day trip, head back across the bridge to the station.

The whole of Landsberg am Lech feels so bloody cute and Disney that I wouldn’t have been surprised if a fairytale squirrel wearing clothes was driving the train back to Munich. This blog post was one of the hardest ever to narrow down photos for, because the town was just so photogenic.

As you can probably tell, I was really taken with Landsberg am Lech (and not just for the plethora of Instagram-worthy houses with pretty flowers). After the hustle and bustle of Munich, it was nice to go somewhere smaller and quieter for the day. I’d highly recommend it if you’re in Munich or anywhere in Bavaria.

How do do a trip from Munich to Landsberg am Lech: useful information

How to get there (and away)

Get the train from Munich Pasing to Kaufering and change to get the local connecting train to Landsberg. It only takes about 50 minutes, with some really nice Bavarian scenery to look at out of the window. Easy and efficient (like most German transport, of course).

How to get around

The only way to see it is on foot, which is easy because it’s only little.

When to go

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Bavaria is at its best in autumn. But Landsberg is probably pretty in all seasons.

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