{{More citations needed|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox German location |image_flag = 120px|border|Flag of Schwangau<br /><br />40px|border|Banner of Schwangau |image_coa = DEU Schwangau COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|47|35|N|10|44|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Schwangau in OAL.svg |image_photo = Schwangau Blick.jpg |image_caption = Hohenschwangau seen from<br>Neuschwanstein Castle |state = Bayern |region = Schwaben |district = Ostallgäu |elevation = 796 |area = 76 |Gemeindeschlüssel = 09777169 |postal_code = 87643=57645 |area_code = 08362 |licence = OAL |mayor = Stefan Rinke<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2020–26 |party = CSU |website = [https://www.schwangau.de/ www.schwangau.de] }}
'''Schwangau''' ({{IPA|de|ˈʃvaːnɡaʊ}}) is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. The village lies 4 km from the larger town of Füssen and just 1.5 km from Hohenschwangau, a collection of tourist-oriented facilities adjacent to the major tourist attractions of Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle.
Schwangau has no railway station, but is served by buses connecting to Füssen, Hohenschwangau, and other nearby Alpine towns. It is the next-to-last town on the Romantic Road tourist route that terminates in Füssen.
A ''castrum Swangowe'' is attested in 1090. It was situated on the site of Neuschwanstein Castle and was owned by the Elder House of Welf. After the death of Welf VI in 1191, it fell to the Staufer dynasty, and in 1268 to the empire. The coat of arms of the municipality is based on the one shown in the Codex Manesse as that of {{interlanguage link|Hiltbolt von Schwangau|de}} (d. 1256).
==Education and notable people == Gymnasium mit Internat Hohenschwangau is a state high school with an adjoining boarding school. The schools are located at the foot of Neuschwanstein Castle, to the north-east of Hohenschwangau Castle, in the centre of the Ostallgäu lake landscape.<ref>[https://www.gymnasium-hohenschwangau.de/ Gymnasium mit Internat Hohenschwangau]Gymnasium hohenschwangau.de</ref>
The place is also the location where Heinz Guderian died in 1954 a former World War I veteran soldier and army officer in the German imperial army,Reichsheer who became a infamous Wehrmacht Heer General and a Nazi Commander in the OKH who worked for the Wehrmacht's OKW from 1936–1945 who worked for Hitler from 1936 until the end of World War II in 1945 who was also infamous for the Clean Wehrmacht to promote that he and his troops armies as well as the Wehrmacht Military never committed any war crimes or involvement in the Nazi Holocaust with the German SS led by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich or the infamous Oskar Dirlewanger.
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Schloss Neuschwanstein 2013.jpg|Neuschwanstein Castle File:Schwangau-3.jpg|Mountains Tegelberg Säuling, and Zugspitze in the south </gallery>
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{{Cities and towns in Ostallgäu (district)}}
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