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
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes
Cathedral treasury of St. Johannes documents over 500 years of liturgical chalices and monstrances, Copyright Holger Schmitt
Weikersheim town wall
Town walls, many parts of which are still in good condition (14th century), with ‘Blaue Kappe’ and ‘Gänsturm’ towers, Copyright…
Neo-Gothic Town Hall
Neo-Gothic Town Hall (1865) and St. Martin’s Parish Church (1910), Copyright Stadt Tauberbischofsheim
Celtic wall in Burgstall
Finsterlohr fortifications and keep (about 100 BC), one of the biggest Celtic ring walls in Southern Germany, Copyright Tourist Information…
Schillingsfürster hedgehog
What a bear is to a Berliner, a hedgehog (“Stupfl”) is to a Schillingsfürst resident. It is the unofficial heraldic…
‘Münsterseen’ leisure and relaxation park
‘Münsterseen’ leisure and relaxation park, Copyright Tourist Information Creglingen/Klaus Hein