Minster ‘Zu Unserer Lieben Frau’: Gothic brick hall church with three naves (1444-67); late Gothic frescos; tabernacle (1503), ‘Regelsches Epitaph’ (1515), bell-tower with ‘Pummerin’ (1512), the biggest tower bell in Swabia weighing approx. 6.5 tonnes.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Town Hall and Golden Hall
Town Hall (1615-20): one of the most attractive secular Renaissance buildings north of the Alps, built by Elias Holl; magnificent…
St. Kilian
Romanesque Protestant church of St. Kilian with Gothic windows in Faulenberg
Echelsbach Bridge
Echelsbach Bridge (1929) crossing the 76 m deep Ammer Gorge. Wonderful countryside against the backdrop of the Bavarian Alps with…
Weikersheim town wall
Town walls, many parts of which are still in good condition (14th century), with ‘Blaue Kappe’ and ‘Gänsturm’ towers, Copyright…
Kalkbrenner chapel
After the birth of her 17th child at Christmas 1891, Franziska Schmid was dying. In this hopeless situation, Johann and…