title: Ottobeuren
text: # Ottobeuren
  
  Ottobeuren (Swabian: Ottobeire, Medieval Latin: Ottobura) is a market town and municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located 11 km southeast of Memmingen near the A7. It is famous for Ottobeuren Abbey, situated next to the Basilica. The town is seat of a municipal association with Hawangen and Böhen.
  
  The musicologist Manfred Hermann Schmid was born in Ottobeuren.
  
  ## Twin towns — sister cities
  
  Ottobeuren is twinned with:
  
  * Norcia, Italy
  * Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse, France
  * Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia
  