Large, historical Market Place with magnificent Town Hall, consisting of Gothic western part (1250-1400), with ‘Kaisersaal’ hall and tower (60 m), and Renaissance part (1572-78), arcade extension (1681); ‘Ratstrinkstube’ (Councillors’ Tavern, 1446) with the Meistertrunk clock (1910); ‘Fleisch- und Tanzhaus’ (13th/15th centuries) with half-timbered upper storey and ‘Jagstheimerhaus’ (1488, today the ‘Marien’ pharmacy); St. George’s or Herterich fountain (1608).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
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…
St. Ulrich and St. Afra
St. Ulrich and St. Afra: originally an Abbey church (1474); late Gothic basilica (15th / 16th centuries) with onion tower…
Spitzer Turm
The ‘Spitzer Turm’ (36.5 metres high) was built in the 13th century as a watchtower and keep. It also served…
Hohenschwangau Castle
From 1832 to 1836, Crown Prince Maximilian had the medieval Schwanstein Castle converted into Hohenschwangau Palace in the neo-Gothic style.…
Schillingsfürster hedgehog
What a bear is to a Berliner, a hedgehog (“Stupfl”) is to a Schillingsfürst resident. It is the unofficial heraldic…