Food Markets Across Cities: What to Buy and Where

Augsburg's Markthalle is really the Augsburger Stadtmarkt, a market complex with a delicatessen hall, a butcher hall, a bakery lane and produce streets. Here is which part to head for, what it sells and where to sit down for lunch.

The Baden-Baden Markthalle is a covered market inside the Wagener Galerie at Lange Straße 44, built around fresh counters for produce, fish, meat, cheese and baked goods. Three open-air weekly markets around town round out the picture, each with its own market mornings.

Bamberg runs two distinct markets: a weekday fruit-and-vegetable market at Grüner Markt and a Saturday farmers' market on the promenade. Here is what each one sells and how to shop it for a snack or picnic.

Dortmund has no single central food market hall; its food markets are 13 weekly markets spread across the city districts. The Hansa-Markt on Hansaplatz is the main one and the easiest to plan a morning around, with produce, flowers and fine-food stalls next to the Westenhellweg shopping street.

There is no market hall to plan around in Freiburg: the city's food shopping happens outdoors, above all at the Münstermarkt wrapped around the Minster. Go for regional fruit and vegetables, order a Lange Rote, the city's long red bratwurst, and use the smaller neighborhood Wochenmärkte and Bauernmärkte when you want a quieter errand.

Heidelberg's weekly markets are small neighborhood operations scattered across the city districts, not one grand central market. Here is what each one is like, how to shop it with cash and your own bag, and how a market morning fits around breakfast or lunch.

Mainz's weekly market takes over the squares around the cathedral every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., with roughly 85 permanent stalls and extra seasonal stands in spring and fall. Saturdays also bring the Mainz wine breakfast, now set along Tritonplatz, Leichhof and the Rhine bank.

Münster's farmers markets are weekly Wochenmärkte, not one-off event stalls. The central round runs at the Domplatz, and the Hiltrup district market sets up every Friday, selling produce, cheese, bread, sausage and honey.

Nuremberg's Hauptmarkt hosts a weekday market selling regional produce, bread, herbs and flowers, with seasonal markets taking over the square at other times of year. Here is what each one sells and how to build a market stop into a day of eating in the Altstadt.

Potsdam has no single central market hall for local produce; instead, open-air stands set up around the city, including a weekly Saturday series of art and culinary stands on Hegelallee 55 near Nauener Tor. This guide covers where that market sits, what to buy and snack on, how to shop by weight with cash, and how to pair a market morning with a bakery and a sit-down meal.

Wiesbaden's weekly market takes over Dern'sches Gelände every Wednesday and Saturday, with bratwurst, Dutch fish, coffee and regional produce. Here is what to buy, what to eat on the spot and how the two halves of the market work.