DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Bayern	Bavaria
Regierungsbezirk: Schwaben
Landkreis: Donau-Ries

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Wemding is situated at an elevation of 479 m at the eastern edge of the Ries plane, which had been formed some 15 million years ago by the impact of a meteorite. The town is the leading tourist place of northern Swabia. The place was first mentioned in a document of AD 793 as Uuemodinga. In 1348 Wemding was chartered as a town. Around 1500/1503 the old, Alemannic, name Wemodingen changed to the Bavaric form, Wembding.

The parish church Sankt Emmeram [left] is the oldest church of Wemding. The oldest church on this place, a Romanesque three-naved construction, was built in 1030–1060. The choir (presbytery) was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1307/1308. The naves were heightened in the Baroque period (17th century). The two mighty towers (65 m high, nicknamed the 'unequal brothers') are the landmark of Wemding. A treasure of the church is the main altar of the Renaissance period, completed in 1633. A fresco in the presbytery dates from 1430.

The bottom right picture shows a building labeled 'Bad Wemding' (Wemding spa). The oldest documented mention of a bathhouse dates from 1449. The spa was rebuilt in 1559. The building shown on the glass dates from the 19th century.