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The Christmas market does not attract any attention from outside the region, which is to its advantage. The lack of tourist hustle and bustle and the exclusive Christmas, arts and crafts offerings, without kitsch and the usual market goods, give the Christmas market a special, authentic atmosphere and make it an insider tip.
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Altes Rathaus
The town hall is considered a masterpiece of secular German buildings of the early Renaissance and is impressive due to its proportions. It was built between 1569 and 1572 by the Halle architect Nikolaus Hofmann in a transitional style from the late Gothic to the early Renaissance. The coats of arms of Emperor Maximilian II and the seven electors are on the oriel tower. The vaults on the ground floor house the former market hall, which now hosts temporary exhibitions, and the tourist information office. The left oriel tower is the old town pharmacy. Also worth seeing is the town hall hall, which is only accessible during concerts and events. The town hall remained intact during the Second World War until a major fire, probably caused by welding work, almost destroyed the town hall on the evening of April 20, 1959. The roof structure was ablaze and the eastern gable wall bent inwards and threatened to collapse into the town hall. However, the fire brigade got the fire under control and ultimately it remained only a roof fire.
It is the landmark of the Southern Old Town district, the middle of the three Main districts, between Zurich, which lies upstream of the Main, and Fischerrain; built in 1611 as the stair tower of a Renaissance house (in the picture, back right), whose cellar vaults house small art. The tower was raised by four floors in the 19th century to produce shotgun pellets, with a beautiful view, but is not open to the public.
An extraordinary museum building by the Berlin architect Volker Staab, which opened in 2000. 19th-century paintings by artists from German-speaking countries.The museum is home to the most important private collection of 19th century German-speaking art and the world's largest Carl Spitzweg collection, with 160 paintings and 110 drawings.
Stadtmauer
It is still preserved with three towers on the eastern ramparts on the Lower and Upper Wall. At the location shown in the right picture, in the corner between Mariental and Maintal, the former city wall was also the surrounding wall of the Henneberg imperial castle, which is still easy to imagine today. The city wall is also preserved on the western ramparts near the city theater and art gallery, among other places.
Collection on the city's history. Renaissance building from 1582 and former Latin school.