Historical market place with imposing half-timbered and patrician houses: Town Hall (13th century) with bay and tower extensions (about 1500) and Renaissance outside staircase (1618); ‘Brot-und Tanzhaus’ and ‘Hohes Haus’ (both 1442); ‘Leihhaus’ (pawnbroker’s shop).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Old town with half-timbered houses
Old town with a fine ensemble of half-timbered houses, e.g., ‘Kirchenstaffel’, ‘Schlosserbuck’, ‘Romschlössle’, Copyright Tourist Information Creglingen/Klaus Hein
Craftsman’s house
Craftsman’s house (1270) with rooms showing how a craftsman’s family lived in the past.
St. Ulrich and St. Afra
St. Ulrich and St. Afra: originally an Abbey church (1474); late Gothic basilica (15th / 16th centuries) with onion tower…
Marienberg Fortress
Marienberg Fortress (early 13th century): 1253 – 1719 residence of the Prince Bishops; large-scale reinforcement and extension of the Fortress…
St. John’s Minster
St. John’s Minster with an important sepulchre, Copyright Stadt Bad Mergentheim
Polizeidienerturm
The medieval narrow entrance to the town was originally a larger entrance for carts. Since the 19th century, the passageway…