Baroque church built in 1673 in honor of Saint Coloman. The Irish pilgrim is said to have stopped here on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem around the turn of the millennium. The young Johann Schmuzer from Wessobrunn was the master builder of the church. The pilgrimage church stands in an open field at the foot of the mountains and is one of the most famous sights in Bavaria due to its proximity to Neuschwanstein Castle and is very popular as a photo motif and wedding church.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
St. John’s Minster
St. John’s Minster with an important sepulchre, Copyright Stadt Bad Mergentheim
Protestant Collegiate Church
The Romanesque church, predecessor of today’s three-naved Gothic basilica, was built and extended in 1383/4. A late Gothic canopy in…
Marketplace
Market Place with magnificent half-timbered and Baroque buildings: ‘Alte Post’, (Old Post House – 1602), ‘Stern-Apotheke’ (Star Pharmacy – 1670),…
Plönlein
‘Plönlein’: picturesque medieval townscape where the road forks down to the ‘Kobolzeller Tor’ gate (about 1360, with outer courtyard, ‘Kohlturm’…
Church of the Virgin Mary
Church of the Virgin Mary, three-aisle basilica (14th century) with wall paintings, Copyright Stadt Bad Mergentheim