The Hatred Mountains are a low mountain range in the middle Germany, located mainly in the northern Lower Franconia. The hills crowned by mixed forests are characteristic of the region; As an ancient cultural area, it has numerous castle ruins and medieval half-timbered towns.
Regions
The Haßberge are predominantly in the east Lower Franconia, a small part of the foothills of the Baunach valley are in Upper Franconia.
Under the term German castle corner Above all, places in the region of the northern Haßberge in Lower Franconia, which is rich in castles and palaces, and also some places in the adjoining neighboring region in Upper Franconia market themselves.
places
- 1 Breitbrunn -
- 2 Burgpreppach -
- 3 Ebelsbach - Wine village on the Main with two interesting castles.
- 4 Boars - with a well-preserved old town
Breitbrunn
Burgpreppach Castle
Ebelsbach Castle Gleisenau
The theft storm in Ebern
- 5 Hassfurt - the capital of the region
- 6 Hofheim in Lower Franconia - with Eichelsdorf and St. Alfons monastery.
- 7 Kirchlauter -
- 8 Koenigsberg in Bavaria - Listed medieval-romantic half-timbered town.
Hassfurt
Hofheim in Lower Franconia
Kirchlauter-Neubrunn
Koenigsberg in Bavaria
- 9 Maroldsweisach -
- 10 Rentweinsdorf - with the rococo castle from the 18th century
- 11 Zeil am Main - with the pilgrimage church "Zeiler Käppele" on the Kapellenberg
In Upper Franconia, in the northwestern county Bamberg:
- 12 Baunach - the Franconian city of three rivers
Maroldsweisach Altenstein castle ruins
Rentweinsdorf
Zeil am Main
Baunach
- 13 Rumor -
- 14 volume up -
- 15 Oberhaid -
- 16 Reckendorf - with a former synagogue and Jewish cemetery.
Rumor
Loud pavilion
Oberhaid historic cellar lane
Reckendorf
Other goals
- The Green ribbon is the first all-German nature conservation project and was created along the former inner-German border strip that covered the Haßberge in the north of Thuringia impenetrable severed.
background
Geologically the Hate Mountains belong to the Keuper; the ridge is the extension of the Steigerwalds and is separated from it by the Main.
The region is eponymous for the Haßberge formation, a geological term for the Keuper soil layer, for which the low mountain range is typical (wikipedia: Hassberge Formation).
Haßberge Nature Park
The Haßberge Nature Park has existed since 1974 and covers the core region of the low mountain range with an area of 860 km²; the nature park stretches from the Main Valley with Haßfurt in the south to Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld in the northwest.
language
getting there
By plane
The closest international airport is the Nuremberg Airport (IATA: NUE)
In the street
The Maintalautobahn runs along the Main in the south of Kulmbach to Schweinfurt, the hate mountains themselves are removed from the federal highways and streaked.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
mountains
- 1 Bramberg - an extinct volcanic cone (495 m) with the castle ruins of the same name;
- Location: approx. 2 km northwest of Boars, District of Dorf Bramberg;
- 2 Schwedenschanze - also Great Hassberg (487), with a 28 m high observation tower and a wide panoramic view of the Haßberge and the nearby Grave field up to the adjoining low mountain ranges Steigerwald, Spessart, Rhön and Thuringian Forest. Attention: The observation tower is only accessible during the opening times of the Dr.-Krahmer-Hütte at the tower (see below).
- The Ring wall system the Celts from Hallstadt times (around 500 BC) were still used by the locals as a refuge during the Thirty Years' War during the Swedish occupation, hence the name;
- Dr.-Krahmer-Hütte, open on weekends and on public holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Zeilberg (464 m) immediately east of Maroldsweisach and the local mountain of the municipality: a former volcanic mountain with a quarry, nature trail and Zeiler volcano beer garden;
- Judenhügel (415 m) (formerly also Wartberg) with a Jewish cemetery within a large ring wall.
Castles and Palaces
More than a third of all former knight and aristocratic residences in the castles-rich Lower Franconia are concentrated in the region.
- The Bettenburg is considered the landmark of the Haßberge. It was built in 1535 by Baron Truchseß von Wetzhausen and is still owned by the von Truchseß family today.
- The Landscaped garden in the English style, near the Bettenburg: In with one Poets garden the monuments of well-known figures from the Middle Ages (e.g. Götz von Berlichingen, Franz von Sickingen, Ulrich von Hutten) can be visited.
- Altenberg castle ruins, near Altenberg, legendary ancestral seat of the Lords of Stein zu Altenstein;
- Bramberg castle ruins
- Koenigsberg castle ruins (in Koenigsberg in Bavaria);
- Lichtenstein castle ruins a double castle in Pfarrweisach;
- Raueneck castle ruins, built around 1180 as an official castle of the Würzburg diocese;
- at Boars, above the Vorbach district;
- Rotenhan castle ruins, one of the few real rock castles in Bavaria;
- at Boars, above the district of Eyrichshof;
- Schmachtenberg castle ruins
- Schwedenschanze castle ruins
- Wildberg castle ruins
- Dippach castle ruins
- Serrfeld fortified church
- Ebelsbach Castle, former moated castle;
- Gleisenau Castle, Renaissance castle and "most beautiful elementary school in Bavaria";
miscellaneous
- The 3 Querkel on the Veitenstein is a legendary formation of sandstone rocks.
Veitenstein
activities
- Run away, Hiking trail along the ridge of the Haßberge;
- Castle history trail in the Haßberge Mountains;
kitchen
Wine is grown on the slopes of the Main Valley. There are still a few small breweries in the east.
- Gereuth Castle, Schloss Gereuth 1, 96190 Untermerzbach. Tel.: 49 (0)9533 9824-0. Open: Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m., Sundays and public holidays from 11.30 a.m., Restaurant in historical rooms in the castle, 4 historical rooms for overnight stays, in summer with beer garden in the castle park, opening times: 1 May to October Monday to Saturday from 2 p.m., Sundays and public holidays from 11 a.m.
nightlife
security
Practical advice
- Tourist information Haßberge
- Obere Sennigstr. 4, 97467 Hofheim i. UFr .; Tel .: 09523 / 9229-25; mailto: [email protected] ;
climate
trips
- It is immediately adjacent to the northwest Grave field With Bad Koenigshofen, the Veste Irmelshausen and other interesting castles in Trappstadt, Sulzfeld an der Lederhecke and Sternberg.
literature
- The pleasure guide - Haßberge district. 200 tips: Franconian - International - Cafés. Bamberg: GuideMedia Publishing House, May 2011, ISBN 978-3981269352 ; 264 pages. :
- House of Bavarian History (Ed.): Hatred Mountains. 2009, EDITION BAVARIA 02, ISBN 9783791722399 ; 88 pages. Price: 8 € ;
- The Haßberge and their foreland: walks in the history of the earth; Vol.20. Dr. Friedrich Arrow, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89937-067-6 ; 128 pages. about 18.- € :
Web links
- official page Haßberge Nature Park
- official page Haßberge district
- official page Hassberge Tourism
- official page Haßberge Nature Park
- official page German castle corner