# Memminger Mau

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Content updated: 2026-06-22

Memminger Mau is a humorous folk tale from Memmingen, in Bavaria, built around a surprising encounter with the moon. One version begins in Lindau, where a woman from Memmingen saw the full moon. She mistook its light for the Memminger Mau and exclaimed in surprise. That joke turned local provincial charm into a story passed through generations, with the moon at its centre.

A later telling places two city councillors beside a water tub during preparations for Fischertag in 1900. They mistook the moon’s reflection for the moon itself. After calling the police, they asked a fisherman to catch it with a net. An operetta by Hugo Maser and Sigmund Rheineck gave the tale music and stage form. In 1969, Mayor Johannes Bauer even asked NASA for moon rock after Apollo 11 reached the lunar surface. Signed astronaut photographs arrived instead, leaving Memmingen with a final lunar keepsake.

- City: [Memmingen](https://mytuur.com/en/city/memmingen/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_MemmingerMau_67978d8032e204579be5ced5_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memminger_Rathaus_-_geo.hlipp.de_-_1394.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Memmingen. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.