The best gravel rides in Geißleraue Und Aurachwiesen Bei Ostheim

Very beautiful and worth seeing small town with a lot of half-timbered houses;

Magnificent viewpoint with an accurate panorama map. The view extends from the Kulch to the Ummersberg. Kloster Banz and the Staffelberg can be seen as the most famous points.

The Weisachtal-Radweg (often called Weisach-Radweg) is a family-friendly route in the Haßbergen region that connects Maroldsweisach with Ebern. A special highlight is the use of former railway lines, which makes the route very flat and relaxed. You cycle through the idyllic Weisachtal in the Haßberge Nature Park, characterized by meadows and gentle hills.

Friesenhausen Castle was built as a moated castle in the 13th/14th century.

Architectural History of Friesenhausen Castle Around the year 1300, several local lords held sway in Friesenhausen simultaneously. A Gothic moated castle in a small lake existed from approximately 1300 to 1741 and was at times owned by the Truchseß von Wetzhausen family. Traces of this family can still be found in the Protestant Church of St. George. The Gothic lake castle, however, was demolished in 1741, and the lake was filled in with the rubble. The present Renaissance-Baroque castle in Friesenhausen also originates from a Gothic castle, which, however, did not stand in the adjacent lake but was surrounded by a moat. Around 1563, the married couple Schenk von Ostheim-Steinau von Steinrück built a Renaissance castle over the Gothic moated castle, incorporating the castle courtyard. The conversion to a Baroque castle and further construction work were carried out under the Würzburg Cathedral canon Johann Philipp Fuchs von Dornheim and the Lords von... Dalberg, who embellished the entire complex with numerous additions such as the gate and the equestrian statues. In 1940, Franz Karl Prince zu Salm-Salm acquired the castle, but resided there only temporarily. As early as 1938, it had served as quarters for women of the Reich Labor Service, later as accommodation for prisoners of war, a military hospital for wounded German soldiers, and finally as a transit camp for expellees from Silesia and the Sudetenland. Subsequently, Caritas Würzburg established a retirement home there, which remained in operation until March 1957. After this intensive use, the building stood empty for 16 years, which is why Prince Salm sold the urgently needed renovation of the castle to the von Eichborn family in March 1973. You can read the detailed, richly illustrated architectural history in our newly published 2016 art guide. http://www.schloss-friesenhausen.de/baugeschichte.html

Parking lot with seven intersections

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A bit narrow in places, but the surface is good. There are often beautiful views over the river.