Overview

• inFranken.de on August 29 published a reader-voted top 10 of Franconian castles, with Veste Coburg finishing first by more than double the votes of the runner-up.
• Festung Rosenberg in Kronach placed second, described as one of Europe’s largest fortifications that was never conquered.
• Plassenburg in Kulmbach ranked third and houses the Landschaftsmuseum Obermain, the Deutsches Zinnfigurenmuseum, the Museum Hohenzollern in Franken and the Armeemuseum Friedrich der Große.
• A same-day Merkur.de feature spotlights Eichstätt’s Willibaldsburg, a 14th-century fortress whose Jura-Museum displays regional fossils including the Archaeopteryx.
• The complex also includes the Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte and a reconstructed Bastionsgarten inspired by the 1613 Hortus Eystettensis.