Kornmarkt
Old-town market square with a Baroque Madonna fountain, built over a medieval hospital cemetery.
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This guide to the Kornmarkt in Heidelberg follows the square's working life, from the Holy Spirit Hospital that stood here from the thirteenth century to the city council's decision in fifteen fifty-seven to clear it for a milk and cabbage market. Along the way you meet the Milk Fountain, the Madonna raised in seventeen eighteen, and the construction crew of nineteen eighty-six. Best heard standing by the fountain in the middle of the square.
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