Marketplace Heidelberg

The marketplace is one of the oldest squares in Heidelberg and has been used as such ever since. As it was usual for marketplaces in former times, this one is the old center of the city, and so the "centers of power" usually settled here, too.
Thus the secular centre of power formed in the east with the town hall and in the west the clergy with the Heiliggeistkirche. In the north and south there are old rows of houses.
A beautiful eye-catcher is also the Hercules Fountain in the middle, which was built between 1706 and 1709 and is intended to remind us of the efforts of reconstruction after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War.
Formerly still passable and partly used as a car park, the market place and the adjacent main street have been reserved for pedestrians since 1970.
So nothing stands in the way of a leisurely stroll through the weekly market.
Perhaps you will let your thoughts wander back to a time long past, when the square was also used for all kinds of show trials in the middle of the 19th century. For example, the one about the band of robbers of Hölzerlips and Mannefriedrich in 1812.
The square is also particularly recommendable during the Christmas season, when the huts of the Heidelberg Christmas market are grouped together on the market square.