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1. Railway Station
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Railway station and Tourist-Information.
The only Neo-Gothic railway station building in South Germany. Was constructed in 1868 following the extension of the Heidelberg-Sinsheim-Heilbronn line. Now refurbished, it contains the tourist information...
2. Hohenstaufentor "Schwibbogen"
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This archway provides access to the Imperial Palace from the south.
3. Half-timbered house
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Half-timbered house.
Schwibbogengasse 5: 16th century half-timbered hous with Hebrew inscription (1580). The former Jewish oratory was located here.
4. The Red Tower
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Red Tower.
The keep on the east side of the Staufen Imperial Palace (c.1200). As this would have been the last refuge of the lord of the castle it was elaborately equipped (Romanesque firepalace, sanitary fittings). Nearby is the Nürnberger Türmchen, a small tower serving as a reminder of the help renderd by the free...
5. Romanesque dwelling-house
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Romanesque House.
Schwibbogengasse 16: small 13th century Romanesque dwelling-house.
6. Arcades in the Great Hall of the Staufen Imperial Palace
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This is where the largest imperial hall was situated. The pilars, of varied design, are among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture.
7. Staufen Imperial Palace Chapel
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Palace Chapel.
The Staufen Imperial Palace Chapel (ca. 1200): dedicated to St. Nicholas with imperial gallery at the entrance from the palace hall. Converted in 1837 into a farmhouse with a barn and stables, the building was restored to its original state after 1908. Today it houses the Bad Wimpfen...
8. The "Stown House"
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"Stown House".
Probably originally the women´s apartments in the Staufen palace, it is the largest Romanesque dwelling-house in Germany. Late Gothic stepped gable and seven-sectional window. On the first floor there are valuable medieval and Late Gothic mural paintings. The building now houses the Bad Wimpfen...
9. Bürgermeister-Elsässer-Haus
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Bürgermeister-Elsässer-Haus.
Obere Turmgasse 1:
Bürgermeister-Elsässer-Haus. An imposing 16th century half-timbered building with a Baroque bay window (1717). In 1983 the foundations of a huge third keep formng part of the Imperial Palace were uncovered in the garden.
10. The Blue Tower
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"Blue Tower".
The symbolic landmark of Bad Wimpfen. Built around 1200 as the keep on the west side of the Staufen Imperial Palace it was used until well into the nineteenth century as a watchtower, complenting what was probably the oldest continuous tradition of tower wardens in Germany. From the top there is a magnificent view of the Old Town and the Neckar...
11. The Town Hall
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Town Hall.
A neoclassical building dating from 1839 and replacing a late medieval half-timbered structure with an external flight of steps. Former premises of the imperial town council and law-courts.
12. The Wormser Hof
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Wormser Hof.
Residence of the representative of the Bishop of Worms. Romanesque north side dates form 13th century and the side facing the courtyard from the 16th. To the west is the Tithe Barn in which contributions of corn and fruit were collected.
13. The Town-church
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Evangelical municipal church.
Evangelical municipal church:built between tht 13th and 16th centuries as a parish church on the site of a previous church predating Staufer times. Highly decorative interior including late medieval side-winged altars, mural paintings, Lutheran confessional and a 14th century pieta. Opening...
14. Crucifixion group by the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen
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Crucifixion group.
Crucifixion group by the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen (c. 1515):
grave of a former mayor, Koberer.
15. Smoothing Iron House
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Smoothing Iron House.
Smoothing Iron House, in the Badgasse 10. The narrowest house in town.
16. Frankonian Half-timbered House
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Frankonian Half-timbered House. Badgasse 8.
17. Alemanic Half-timbered House
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Alemanic Half-timbered House. Hauptstrasse 83, dating from 1500.
18. Eagle Fountain
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Eagle Fountain.
Eagle Fountain, (part of the town’s coat of arms)
19. Former freeman´s hospital
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former freeman´shospital.
Former civic hospital:a stone building dating from the first half of the 13th century with 15th century Alemannic half-timbered annexes. Founded prior to 1230 by the Orderof the Holy Ghost. Separation at the end of the 15th century into civic and a church hospital. The building now hoses the Bad Wimpfen...
20. former Gasthaus "Zur Krone"
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former Gasthaus "Zur Krone".
Hauptstraße 69: previously Gasthaus "Zur Krone" (16th century Franconian half-timbered building). One of the town´s oldest inns. Nearby, in the Kronengässchen, is the Collector and Lucky Pig Museum.
21. The former clerical hospital
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former clerical hospital.
consistign of the hospital church in the Hauptstraße (converted into a dwelling-house in the 19th century) and the chapter-house in the Langgasse. Rebuilt in Baroque style during the first half of the 18th century.
22. Giant House
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Giant House.
In Langgasse 15 one can see the so-called Giant House, which shows the transition from Allemanic to Frankonian half-timbered structure.
23. Group of half-timbered houses
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Schafgasse 2 and Klostergasse 4,6,9 offer a group of half-timbered houses from the 16th century as well as a medieval bathhouse.
24. Catholic parish church of the Holy Cross
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inside the Dominican Church.
former Dominican church:Am Dominican monastery was founded in 1269 and a Gothic chruch, added after 1300, was subsequently rebuilt in 1713 in Baroque style. The monastery was dissolved following secularization in 1818. the church is an important place of pilgrimage (fragment of the Cross). In the interior: a frieze with...
25. House of the Masters of Ehrenberg
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House of the Masters of Ehrenberg.
House of the Masters of Ehrenberg Having left the Church of the Dominicans we reach Klostergasse and arrive at one of the striking half-timbered houses, which has the year 1451 on one of its corners. It is the house of the Masters of Ehrenberg. The storeys are prominent, the heads of the crossbeams partly...
26. The Lion´s Fountain
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The Lion´s Fountain.
The Lion’s Fountain
Dating from the 16th century, it shows the town coat of arms, and the imperial eagle.
27. The Bulwark
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Bulwark.
Bulwark
16th century circular artillery emplacement. Wimpfen im Tal is the oldest part of the town. It was here, in the first and second centuries, that out of a Roman fort a town eventually developed which was larger than the presentday Wimpfen Tal (valley town).
28. Town moat
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Town moat, outer bailey and lake (former Biersee, now the Birkensee lake).
29. Manorial Collegiate Church
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The Knight’s Cathedral.
in Wimpfen im Tal:
The romaneque west wing of the present-day building dates from the 10th century and the Gothic nave and chancel form the 13th. High Gothic cloisters. Former Bendedictine monastery.
30. The oldest House
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Marktplatz 6: One of the oldest dwelling houses in Baden-Württemberg. It is basically a Roman structure from the second half of the 13th century.
31. The town in the valley
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The town in the valley On the way to Wimpfen im Tal we pass the former salt works Ludwigshall, which line the foot of the Old Hill. The town in the valley, which we are now entering, rests partly on the foundation of a Roman fort, whose size was 170 x 200 metres. The town wall in the south is on the original...
32. The Cornelia Church
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The Cornelia Church.
The Cornelia Church (Cornelienkirche) The Cornelia Church (Cornelienkirche) is situated at the eastern exit of the town in the valley in the middle of the cemetery bordering on the railway embankment. General Tilly is said to have planned his strategy here before the battle of Wimpfen in 1622; that is why...
