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
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…
Steam engine monument
Class 50 locomotive, installed in 1978 at the “interface” between the old town and the newer buildings
Gothic pilgrimage church
Gothic pilgrimage church (15th/17th century) above Laudenbach with ornate interior, Copyright Stadt Weikersheim/Christel Nowak
Parish Church of St. Jakob
Parish Church of St. Jakob (St. James) with its onion tower, it sits majestically on the ‘Kirchberg’ and can be…
Town art gallery
Town art gallery in the Deutschordenshaus: Painting gallery divided into religious art, portraits, city views