Attractions and Places To See around Grub am Forst - 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.

Nicely integrated into the cycle path.

A beautiful market square, not far from the train station

A beautiful building. Well suited to the new era.

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

At the Lower Gate you will find two cafés, a butcher's shop, a small restaurant, a farm shop and a pub with Franconian specialties. So if you're a little hungry, you've come to the right place 😉

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

The secularization began on November 28, 1802. In 1803, the Electorate of Bavaria took over the administration of the monastery. Buildings were partially sold and demolished, and the abbey church became a parish church. The secularization was officially completed on October 24, 1803.[1] The Banz office, the property of the monastery, was converted into the Banz district court. In 1814, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria acquired the former monastery complex, which was subsequently known as "Banz Castle" and was a summer residence. Duke Wilhelm hosted the King of Bavaria and the Tsarina of Russia, among others. The living quarters were given new furnishings. The monastery crypt under the abbey church served as the burial place of the ducal family until 1883. After the end of the First World War, the Wittelsbachs leased the property to the Trappists, who had been expelled from the Alsatian Abbey of Oelenberg and moved to Engelszell in 1925. In 1933, the Community of the Holy Angels, which was dedicated to pastoral care for Catholic Germans living abroad, purchased the former monastery complex from Ludwig Wilhelm Herzog in Bavaria for a symbolic Reichsmark, while the lands remained in Wittelsbach ownership. From 1941, art and cultural assets were stored in the vaulted cellars. Between 1942 and 1945, the Wehrmacht used parts of the castle as a reserve hospital. From the summer of 1944, Banz served as the residence of Kurt von Behr, who worked in the Reichsleiter Rosenberg operational staff. He had numerous art treasures deposited in the lowest cellar of the south wing of the castle. After the end of the Second World War, a large part of the monastery was set up as a retirement home run by Caritas for refugees and displaced persons. The School Sisters of Our Lady (Bohemia) were the sponsors of this retirement home. In 1950, Banz had 324 residents.[3] Caritas closed the retirement home in 1964. In 1978, the Community of the Holy Angels donated the former monastery to the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which is close to the CSU. Since then, it has served as a conference venue for the foundation. The local parish took over the abbey church. From 1987 to 2016, the two-day music festival Songs took place annually on a summer evening on the monastery meadows. Since 2017, the Lieder auf Banz festival has taken place instead. When Sophie in Bavaria married the Crown Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, the lands became the property of the House of Liechtenstein. Source: Wikipedia