Parish Church of St. Mary of the Ascension (1458-88): colonnaded basilica with high middle nave, long choir and onion tower; the inside was redecorated in Baroque style about 1700; the choir windows (15th / 16th centuries) rank among the best glass paintings in Germany; Rosary Altar by Zimmermann with a Gothic Madonna by Hans Multscher (1437).
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Perlachturm
Perlachturm (11th / 12th centuries): 70 m high tower with lantern belfry and ‘Welscher Haube’ roof by Elias Holl (1614-16).
Parish Church of St. Jacob
Parish Church of St. Jacob, ‘Maria Alber’, Plague Church of St. Stephan and Church of St. Afra in the Field…
Roman ‘Villa Rustica’
Roman “Villa Rustica” (100 A.D. – Roman country house of antiquity), uncovered remains of the bath building under an all-round…
Gotic Church of Our Lord
Gotic Church of Our Lord with altar to the Virgin Mary (1505-10) by Tilman Riemenschneider, late Gothic High Altar (14th…
St. Peter’s Chapel Tauberbischofsheim
St. Peter’s Chapel (1180), oldest building in the town, copyright town of Tauberbischofsheim
Plönlein
‘Plönlein’: picturesque medieval townscape where the road forks down to the ‘Kobolzeller Tor’ gate (about 1360, with outer courtyard, ‘Kohlturm’…