Harburg Castle (12th – 19th centuries): large castle complex; walls with battlements and six towers, bailey and gates; main castle with keep (12th – 13th centuries), ‘Kastenhaus’ (1594) with stables and armoury, ‘Saalbau’ with banqueting hall (stuccowork in 1719), ‘Fürstenbau’ and St. Michael’s Chapel (stuccowork in 1719).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Toppler Castle
Toppler Castle (1388) and Kobolzell Church (1472-1501) in the Tauber Valley.
Marketplace
Market Place with magnificent half-timbered and Baroque buildings: ‘Alte Post’, (Old Post House – 1602), ‘Stern-Apotheke’ (Star Pharmacy – 1670),…
Kittsteintor
Kittstein Gate The view from the Kittstein Gate towards the Collegiate Church and the castle is one of the best-known…
Market Place with Baroque fountain
Market Place (‘Franconia’s Festival Hall’) with Baroque fountain (1726), spacious patrician houses and historical half-timbered houses.
Minster of St George
One of the finest late-gothic hall churches of South Germany, with a Romanesque tower gate (1220-30), built 1448 to 1499…
Reichsstrasse
Reichsstrasse: Principal item of the town with city hall (in 1236, since 1853 in the today’s form), town duty (1418),…