7. Old Town Wall

By standing at the Kurt-Schumacher-Allee or the New Town Hall, and looking across the town’s brook, you can discern the south-western portion of the old town fortifications including the main wall, the ward wall, the corner bastion, and the shell tower. Unfortunately, the exact date of Weiden’s first fortification has not been determined yet. According to a document from 1347, Charles IV ordered the burgraves of Nuremberg to restore, build, and fortify the citadels Floß and Parkstein and the market-town Weiden. It was no later than this year that Weiden built its first wall, but it is also deemed possible that a town wall already in place was just heightened and strengthened by towers.