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above all, it is the churches... Half-timbered BuildingsThe hills of the Rhön and the Hassberg asood make up the fertile countryside ofGrabfeld including the town of BadKönigshofen on the upper end of theFranconian Saale River. Königshofen, aformer Würzburg fortification that lost itsBaroque bastions in the early 19th cen-tury, is laid out like a checkerboard. Thesive fountains and on the west side stilldealers from the year 1525. The sodiumthrough the Thuringian Wood and atop thePrevious pages: The Old Castle in Gereuth withits Renaissance arcades is typical of the manorastronomer, Johannes Müller, who was born inof his birthplace, Regiomontanus.The reflection of the moatedcastle of Brennhausen in a weir.forced up and solidified to basalt. Thefortress ruins and storybook castlesA stone statue of Roland stands as thesymbol of peace in front of the town hall inKönigsberg. The astronomer, JohannesMüller, was born here in 1436 and enteredthe annals of science under the Latin versionthe first observatory in Germany in Nurem-sailed to the New World using Müllerscalculations on the orbit of the stars.their hammers. The parish church in Bau-nach has a late Gothic relief of Christ onthe Tree of Life.the Gothic choir of the knights chapel in Hassfurt on the Main.The tympanum of the portal is rich indetail and depicts the arrival of the WiseThe Bettenburg castle is near the town ofHofheim. The lord of the castle, Christianruchsess von Wetzhausen, wrote acherries that is still useful over a centurylater. Truchsess also opened his castleFriedrich Rückert, Gustav Schwab,Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque, Heinrichoss the Younger and Jean Paul were the German playwright, Friedrich Schiller,lived in Waltershausen.Castles surrounded by water, their reflec-sance edifices built after the Peasants Warhas Bavarias largest Jewish cemetery withfound in Trappstadt or Brennhausen. Theorangery in Rentweinsdorf.o of the regions best known fortressruins include Altenstein soaring out of awooded setting and hewn out of rock andCastle near Ebern.have resided in the spacious Renaissancethe von Rotenhan familys ancestral castlewhose lower floor was carved out of solidIn Gereuth, the old castle built in 1600which the Jewish banker, Jacob Hirsch,bought from the Greiffenclau family inHirsch auf Gereuth hereditary nobility.A smaller, simpler version of the Old Mainthe Baunach River near Frickendorf. Thisbridge has three arches and four Rococosaints whose robes flutter half-way roundthe columns. Logically, St. Nepomuk, thepatron saint of bridges, is one of the four.