Attractions and Places To See around Bad Rodach - Top 20

The Spenglersbrunnen (Spengler Fountain) stands on the southeast side of Coburg's market square at the corner of Ketschengasse. The fountain was built as a wooden structure in 1550 in front of the property of citizen Spengler. Since 1621, it has been a stone fountain, which was rebuilt in 1673. The Spenglersbrunnen drew its water from the Pilgramsroth stream, and from 1670 onward, it was piped via the Rückertbrunnen (Reckert Fountain). Today, it is fed by the water mains. Renovations were carried out in 1980 and 2005. The octagonal box fountain has a fountain head formed as a baluster with a pearl bar and a leaf wreath. A spout is present on the front. The basin wall is decorated with, among other things, a relief depicting a lion and a Moor's head. On the column stands a stone lion holding two shields depicting the city's coat of arms, a lion and a Moor's head.

A beautiful market square, not far from the train station

A beautiful place in the middle of the city. The concerts in the Coburg summer take place there in a special setting.

Located on the market square

In 1543, Duke Johann Ernst of Saxony decided to move his court from the Veste Coburg down into the city and chose the site of the dissolved Franciscan monastery, along which the city wall ran to the east. The monastery was in the area of the former middle courtyard. Recent research attributes the architectural design to the Saxon architect Nikolaus Gromann.[1] The building shows clear stylistic parallels with the work of Gromann, who may also have been close to the building project in organizational terms as the appointed court architect of Johann Ernst's half-brother, Elector Johann Friedrich. The complex was built until around 1547 under the construction management of Caspar Vischer. A complex was created around two square courtyards, which could be entered from the south via Steingasse.[2] The buildings of the first courtyard with the stair tower, the corner bay window and the dormer windows from this period are still preserved.[3] Between the courtyards was the three-storey princely building, which was accessed via another large stair tower on the north side and had a large hall and a dining room. The palace chapel and other living quarters were located around the second courtyard on the east side, the kitchen on an irregular floor plan to the north and other subordinate rooms to the west. This complex can still be seen with various subordinate extensions on Bieler's floor plan from 1679. It is unclear whether the third courtyard with the stables had already begun in 1543. Only paid craftsmen were employed for the construction and not, as was usual at the time, serf laborers. This special feature is said to have been the reason for the visit of Emperor Charles V in 1547. Charles is said to have given the newly occupied complex the name Ehrenburg on this occasion. The new city palace was inhabited as the residence of a ruling duke until the death of Johann Ernst in 1553 and was then only used extensively.

The Coburg Castle Square is one of the most remarkable square designs in Bavaria. The spacious square is designed as a forecourt to Ehrenburg Castle and is located in the center of the former royal residence of Coburg. The Castle Square was created under Duke Ernst I from 1825 with the demolition of the eastern houses of Grafengasse and the subsequent demolition of the old commercial and auxiliary buildings of the castle, which were located to the north of it, in 1835. It was created in its current design as a representative square by 1849 in the historical and classicist style with the participation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Peter Joseph Lenné. Until the beginning of the First World War, the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95, stationed in Coburg, used the Castle Square for its parades. A military band played on Sunday afternoons.[1] In the 1920s, the Castle Square was often a meeting place for demonstrators, such as on Bloody Saturday in Coburg. Today, cars can be parked on the Schlossplatz in the evenings during performances at the State Theater. It is also used as an event space, for example for open-air concerts. The first plans for an underground car park on the Schlossplatz were made in 1977, but in 1988 the highest building authority in Munich did not approve it for cost and monument protection reasons. Source: Wikipedia

Until 1881, the Coburg state parliament met in the regimental room in the Coburg town hall. The Coburg savings bank, which had been housed in the town hall since 1821, decided in 1936 to build a new building. This was to consist of a new building along Rosengasse, which was completed in August 1939. In addition, in a second construction phase, the savings bank building at Markt 2/3, which stands next to the town hall and has a rococo facade, the so-called Nonnenmacherhaus, was to be demolished and the town hall extended to Rosengasse with new rooms for the savings bank and the town police. The town hall was to receive a new, uniform symmetrical facade design with a second Coburg bay window on the corner of Markt/Rosengasse. At Adolf Hitler's request, the reconstruction plans were presented to him in the Reich Chancellery on March 2, 1938 and met with his approval. According to plans by Reinhard Claaßen, the bay window was to include historical depictions from the period 1922 to 1933 and a sculpture with the "Head of the Führer". The outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the implementation of these plans. Source: Wikipedia

The old Coburg town hall stood in the churchyard next to the Morizkirche. The new town hall was first mentioned in the town register in 1414. It was built in the south of the market as a council and department store. Craftsmen and tradesmen also had their places of work in the late Gothic building. The western cellar dates from this period. In the following centuries, extensive extensions and reconstructions were carried out. From 1577 to 1580, the stonemason and master builder Hans Schlachter built a new eastern wing next to the Gothic Old Town Hall, which reached as far as Ketschengasse. Dendrochronologically, the gable roof structure of the east wing was dated to the years 1577/78. It has a span of about 15.0 meters, a height of about 9.6 meters, a length of about 14.6 meters and a slope of about 52 degrees. The construction consists of 17 rafters with three tenoned collar beam layers.[1] The Renaissance town hall, a four-storey building, was given, among other things, a large hall and a so-called Coburg bay window on Ketschengasse, on which there is also a portrait of Hans Schlachter. In 1579, the Coburg city architect Paul Weißmann added a stair tower to the group of buildings in the inner courtyard, which was equipped with a stone spiral staircase. The next extensive renovation was carried out from 1750 to 1752. The two buildings were given a Rococo facade with coloured plaster and were combined under a three-storey hipped mansard roof. A triangular gable decorated with a figure of Mauritius, which divides the facade into three times four axes, was placed in the middle of the building. The last fundamental renovation was overseen by the Coburg city architect Max Böhme from 1901 to 1904. Among other things, a wide balcony with a lattice parapet was added in the middle of the building above the ground floor. The previously plain ground floor façade was redesigned with neo-baroque elements and the entrance and a staircase leading to the second floor with a square stairwell were rebuilt. In addition, the floor plan of the service rooms underwent major changes.