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The St. Anthony’s Monastery was very important for Grünberg’s history. It was sponsored by the Thurgian Landgrave in 1200. He also sponsored a monastery in Mecklenburg in 1222. Until the monastery was closed in 1526, it was a very influential monastery in middle Germany. The the buildings that make up the remains of the monastery consist of a trapazoid formed courtyard, which lies between the B 49 highway, the market place and the Rosengasse (rose ally).
Directly from the parking place, you can see that the walls of the monastery were higher than the town’s walls were. Only the windows and the wonderful bay window are all that remain from the Refectorium, which are visible from here. On the smaller side of the monastery you will see the former church. With it’s front toward the Rosengasse you can see the castle, which was re-modeled by Eberth Baldwein to become the widow’s residence for the Hessian Landgraves. Characteristic is the beautiful Renaissance bay window. Leave a Comment
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An especially beautiful Baroque House from 1668 is the former Postal Station. The high hall walls still remind us of the purpose for which it was built. On the rear side of the building you can see the living and business quarters, and the stalls and barns, which have long since been remodeled into apartments.
You can't help but will notice the gap on the corner of the marketplace and the marketplace alley (Markt/ Marktgasse). This is the place where the so-called Luther House once stood until 1891. It was a supposedly impressive Gothic building, that Martin Luther stayed in until 1521. Leave a Comment
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Directly next to the Thieves' Tower you can still see the Gothic stone building of the Franciscan Monastery (also known as the bare-foot monastery). It was founded in the middle of the 13th century; the oldest document which attests it's existence dates back to 1272. In 1528 it was secularized (turned into a public building), and the last of the monks moved to Limburg or Cologne. Not long afterwards the building began to decay - there where the garden area now is. At the end of the 16th century, it was torn down except for the one still standing there, which has been completely restored. This probably was the living quarters for the monks. It's outer wall butts right up to the town’s walls. Today you can still see the stairway tower in the north and the interior, especially the arched cellar and the old fountain. Leave a Comment
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In front of the Rathaus (city hall) you can see a round stone well. The well is 36 m deep. Up until 1500 drinking water was extracted from this well. The well was finally filled in 1820. After that it was almost completely forgotten, until in 1980 when it was re-discovered and restored in time for the annual Hesse State Fair. The state fair takes place in a different city each year, so every year the city selected to host the fair goes to a lot of work fixing their city up. Leave a Comment
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In the Judengasse (Jewish ally) you can see the old iron smith’s shop; an old and completely refurbished iron smith shop, which now belongs to the City of Grünberg.
The town church was built in neo-gothic style from 1846-1852. Where it now stands was once the gothic church of St. Mary’s, which was the model for the Marburg St. Elizabeth Church in the second half of the 13th century. It collapsed in 1816. For decades it was a picturesque ruin; services were held in the nearby cemetery chapel. On the south side of the church is a replica of the “Mourners of Christ”, a graveyard sculpture by Samuel Nahl from 1770. Leave a Comment
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The Rathaus (city hall) is a beautiful old Renaissance building dating back to 1586/87. The city acquired this house in 1593 from it’s builder, City Elder Hermann Rüdiger from Hersfeld and it’s been used as a city hall ever since then. The hall on the ground floor used to be a market and tradesmen room; the iron scale next to the doorway reminds us of this period. The stone doorway with it’s lovely sculptures was probably designed by the Landgrave’s Royal Master Mason Eberth Baldwein from Marburg. Especially noticeable are the carefully restored Renaissance Paintings and the stone sculpture of a man wearing Spanish Court clothes on the corner of the building. Leave a Comment
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The marketplace was always the center of community life in the town. It's located directly on the old trade routes through "short Hesse" from Frankfurt through the middle of Germany. Today the marketplace and the streets ajoining it are almost an open-air museum for Hessian Half-Timbered Architecture for the past 500 years. The oldest standing buildings were built around 1500, and you can recognize them by their bay windows and the rounded "x"s between the half-timber supports, like for example the house located at Markt 6 (the ice cream parlor), or Alsfelder Str. 1/3, Marktgasse 6, Rabegasse 2, 8, 12. Just walk down the street and you can see different kinds of half-timbered houses from various centuries. Leave a Comment
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The old Lion Fountain delivered the people of Grünberg their drinking water until the end of the 19th century, directly from the Brunnental. Today the lion along with other parts of the fountain can be found in the former storage house on Winterplatz. Leave a Comment
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When you enter the courtyard of the monastery, you can see the monks’ house on the north side of the building. The most notable thing you will see in the grave stone set into the wall and the old working stones for the monastery. In the east you can see an old half-timbered building, from around 1500. This is the old university house. This is were the University of Marburg moved into during 1542 when the plague broke out. Leave a Comment
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The symbol of the town in the Thieves' Tower (Diebsturm) with it unusual teardrop cross-cut form. Built in 1300, it stands on the most vulnerable place in Grünberg. For centuries it served as a prison, and that's how it got it's name. In 1895/96 it was re-modeled into a watershed. Because it was used as an ammunition depot in the Second World War, the allies partially blew it up. Since then, it's been restored and is now used as a visitor viewing tower. When the weather conditions are good, you can see the Taunus the Vogelsberg Mountains. Inside the tower are a few plaques explaining the history of the town's walls. Leave a Comment
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on September 25, 2002
