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Don’t miss Mannheim’s great farmers’ market
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I lived in Mannheim for a while (and still miss these days). Those days I didn’t need to do my grocery shopping in the supermarkets, as the farmers’ market has all I needed and FRESH ! Just recently I needed some real food fix again, so I drove all the way (60 km) from Darmstadt just to get this wonderful atmosphere again and do some shopping.
Mannheimers are so lucky ! They can go shopping here 3 times a week even ! (in other towns, it is mostly twice). The market is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from early morning until around 2 p.m.
I can highly (= highly) recommend to visit this market for anyone who travels here for business or is close by during sightseeing !
What To Buy: You can get all and everything here from fresh flowers to any kind of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also bread, cheese, sausages – whatever you can imagine. During autumn, of course fresh mushrooms are available.
Prices are very much fair, mostly even cheaper than in supermarkets. And remember, you will get fresh food and no “plastic food” here.
What To Pay: I bought some spices, marjoram for example, 25 g for 0,80 €, bags with 50 g of lavender for 0,50 €. Look at my last picture – all in all, I paid 4,50 € for the spices.
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Address: Mannheim, town centre
Directions: Located in the “town squares” (= town centre), in the main street Kurpfalzstrasse, which runs NE-SW through town. I have added a map (ähm, forgive me the crooked lines please…)
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Chocolate heaven !
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Without Tess having recommended it just some days ago, I would never have realized that there is a shop where chocolate lovers are in heaven – and would most probably need to be forcibly taken out of there.
Called Chocolaterie Stoffel, this family run business offers almost everything you can imagine, made in chocolate. They produce it in their manufacture in a small town called Bobenheim, but most of the sales is done in the Mannheim city one. The truffles are hand rolled, they have 200 hollow forms to make all kinds of chocolate things big and small childs cannot live without.
Well, what can I tell you – you need to check it out for your own.
Thanks Tess for allowing me to place this here as well :-) But – we should all remember, Tess gets all the credit for having found it ! (haha, we should negotiate commission for her in the shop).
What To Buy: I bought:
“Broken chocolate”: 100 g for 2,70 €; Marzipan-orange roll: 1,99 €, Little chocolate mobile phone: 1,60 € (hahaha, who knows me, knows for whom I got that!) Wine grape: 3,95 €
. Coordinates on GoogleEarth: 49°29’05,04’’ N; 08°28’19,61’’ E
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Phone: +49 - 621 – 21202
Address: Mannheim, Planken, O7, 9
Directions: Located in the “town squares” (= town centre), in the main street Planken, which runs NW-SE through town, close to Wasserturm. I have added a map (ähm, forgive me the crooked lines please…).
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tp/17e4e8/
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Südlandhaus – gourmet heaven !
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For all of us that need to break the supermarket shopping habits from time to time, Südlandhaus in Mannheim has all kinds of culinary treats for gourmets. I like their writings in the website, where they say that we can fill our car with the most expensive motoroil, but fill in cheap olive oil into our stomachs….. How true ! But whatever you buy here, it is all fresh or from sources, which Südlandhaus’ people constantly control for being of good quality. Whoever looks for plastic food – you won’t find it here.
They have all different kinds of wine from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and other well known countries. Good brands ! You can also get here all kind of Schnaps (several European countries), olive oil, balsamico vinegar, coffee, honey - you name it. Also fresh seasonal products such as truffles, asparagus, new wine (Federweisser).
Yes, it has its price. But remember, it is fresh and no plastic !
Unfortunately, the website below is only in German. It is also no online shopping; it would be against Suedlandhaus’ philosopy (and I like that). But you could check the site, and maybe you find what you were looking for
What To Buy: . Coordinates on GoogleEarth: 49°29’14,38’’ N; 08°28’09,32’’ E
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Phone: +49 - 621 - 24302
Address: Fressgass’ P3, 8+9
Directions: Located in the “town squares” (= town centre), the next parallel street to in the main street Planken, which runs NW-SE through town. I have added a map (ähm, forgive me the crooked lines please…)
Website: http://www.suedlandhaus.de/
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Buch Kober – booklovers’ heaven !
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Haha, those who have read some of my pages will know that I place tips on bookstores for some cities. I simply cannot do other than enter and browse around.
Mannheim has a good one, too – Buch Kober. There are even 2 of them in town. The usual selection of what I like: extremely well organized and filled travel section, nice things-you-don’t-need-but-cannot-live-without, like agendas, calendars, candles, etc. And they serve coffee, so you can sit there, browse through books before you decide to buy them. A place to easily spend some hours.
The 2 stores have a similar stock. Well, the travel section in the one in Kurpfalzstrasse is a bit bigger. The one in Planken has more selection in these specially produced books (on all kinds of subjects – achitecture, cooking, plants, etc).
What To Buy: No, I will not write down what I bought. VT would kill me, as I would need to write pages and pages and pages….
The usual prices for books; the special issues have quite reasonable prices.
Coordinates on GoogleEarth: Kurpfalzstraße: 49°29’12,54’’ N; 08°27’54,95’’ E Planken: 49°29’07,31’’ N; 08°28’21,65’’ E
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Phone: +49 - 621 - 810000
Address: Planken, P7
Directions: Located in the “town squares” (= town centre), in the main street Planken, which runs NW-SE through town. I have added a map (ähm, forgive me the crooked lines please…)
Website: http://www.buch-kober.de/
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Mikebond Sun Jun 14, 2009 15:15 UTC Was für eine interessante Stadt! Ich hätte es nie gedacht. Und ich mag deinen Schreibstil sehr... Vielen Dank für den Tip über Buch Kober! | deecat Tue May 12, 2009 22:57 UTC Another 5-star page. Yum [the grilled Feta and the chocolate] Farmer's market and gourmet market both sound wonderful. Loved the Luisenpark and the butterfly garden..super photos. | toonsarah Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:00 UTC I love such enthusiastic VT pages, which excite me to go to a place I would never have thought of! I would so like to shop in Südlandhaus & Buch Kober, eat Flammkuchen, and see the stars at the Plantarium :-) | Bwana_Brown Sun Oct 5, 2008 12:57 UTC I was really impressed by the number of interesting activities available in Mannheim - Luisenpark, the Industrial Museum and the Planetarium! It certainly looks like one would not go hungry either! |
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