Sitting above the Lech just west of the old town is a four-storey ivy-covered tower of stone and timber that looks lifted out of the English Cotswolds — because that is more or less where it came from. The painter Hubert von Herkomer, born in Bavaria but raised in England, built it in 1884 as a present for his mother, modeled on the English manorial towers he had been painting. He used it as a studio and home until his death in 1914.
Today the tower houses the small Herkomer Museum, with paintings, drawings, and personal effects of the artist himself. The setting — a wooded slope above the rushing river — is the real draw. A footpath connects the tower to the old town via the cool, mossy Lech meadow.
Open afternoons in summer, closed in winter.