Historic marketplace In the historic marketplace, with its beautifully preserved half-timbered houses, some of which date back to the 16th century, is one of the oldest and, indeed, narrowest houses in Franconia,.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Residential Palace
Teutonic Order Museum in the castle with royal living quarters in Baroque, Rococo and classicist styles. Collection of weapons and…
St. Kilian
Romanesque Protestant church of St. Kilian with Gothic windows in Faulenberg
Gothic pilgrimage church
Gothic pilgrimage church (15th/17th century) above Laudenbach with ornate interior, Copyright Stadt Weikersheim/Christel Nowak
Bock mountain
Bock (570 m): highest hill in this part of the Swabian Jura with a good view over the Ries crater.
Town fortifications
Town fortifications with towers and gates, including the ‘Bayertor’ gate (1425), the most interesting and biggest late Gothic gate in…
Schillingsfürster hedgehog
What a bear is to a Berliner, a hedgehog (“Stupfl”) is to a Schillingsfürst resident. It is the unofficial heraldic…