Bock (570 m): highest hill in this part of the Swabian Jura with a good view over the Ries crater.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes documents over 500 years of liturgical chalices and monstrances, Copyright Holger Schmitt
Spital
‘Spital’ (hospital – founded about 1280) with Parish Church of the Holy Ghost (14th century); reconstruction of the present three-storey…
Schaezler Palace
Schaezler Palace (1765-70); impressive secular Baroque building with wonderful staircase and Rococo banqueting hall.
Town art gallery
Town art gallery in the Deutschordenshaus: Painting gallery divided into religious art, portraits, city views
St. Ulrich and St. Afra
St. Ulrich and St. Afra: originally an Abbey church (1474); late Gothic basilica (15th / 16th centuries) with onion tower…
Market Place and Town Hall
Large, historical Market Place with magnificent Town Hall, consisting of Gothic western part (1250-1400), with ‘Kaisersaal’ hall and tower (60…