ローテンブッハーフォーストの洞窟・トップ14

Weiberhof Castle, which is located in the Sailauf district of Weiberhof and today houses the "Kurfürstliche Schlosshotel Weyberhöfe", dates back to the first of four hunting lodges that were built in the Spessart by the electors of Mainz. It is located at the starting and finishing point of several historical Spessart crossings, namely on the Lohrer Straße or Mainzer Straße, which was also called the Kurfürstenweg and reached the Spessart heights via Steiger, on the Römerweg over the Untersailaufer Höhe and the Engländer in the direction of Orb and on the route via Keilberg, the Posthalterkreuz and Rohrbrunn to Esselbach and Lengfurt. Werner von Eppstein built this hunting lodge "castrum vivarum" in 1265, where he died in 1284. It was probably a stone tower with outbuildings and a zoo, as the name vivarum suggests. It was destroyed in the Margraviate War of 1552 and the hunting lodge was rebuilt in 1557 under Elector Daniel Brendel of Homburg. Over the centuries, the “vivarum” became “vivar”, “wiber”, “weiber” and later also “weyber”. In 1681, Michael Sickenberger from Großkrotzenburg settled in the Weyber estate as a tenant and later farmer. He ran a sheep farm there and became “hereditary owner of the Weiberhof”; his sons and their descendants also held this office until the 19th century. On Paul Pfinzing’s Spessart map from 1562/1594, Weiber is shown with a house. Coats of arms carved in stone remind us that the property was the seat of the Centgraf of the “Cent vorm Spessart”. Source: Wikipedia

Weiberhof Castle, which is located in the Sailauf district of Weiberhof and today houses the "Kurfürstliche Schlosshotel Weyberhöfe", dates back to the first of four hunting lodges that were built in the Spessart by the electors of Mainz. It is located at the starting and finishing point of several historical Spessart crossings, namely on the Lohrer Straße or Mainzer Straße, which was also called the Kurfürstenweg and reached the Spessart heights via Steiger, on the Römerweg over the Untersailaufer Höhe and the Engländer in the direction of Orb and on the route via Keilberg, the Posthalterkreuz and Rohrbrunn to Esselbach and Lengfurt. Werner von Eppstein built this hunting lodge "castrum vivarum" in 1265, where he died in 1284. It was probably a stone tower with outbuildings and a zoo, as the name vivarum suggests. It was destroyed in the Margraviate War of 1552 and the hunting lodge was rebuilt in 1557 under Elector Daniel Brendel of Homburg. Over the centuries, the “vivarum” became “vivar”, “wiber”, “weiber” and later also “weyber”. In 1681, Michael Sickenberger from Großkrotzenburg settled in the Weyber estate as a tenant and later farmer. He ran a sheep farm there and became “hereditary owner of the Weiberhof”; his sons and their descendants also held this office until the 19th century. On Paul Pfinzing’s Spessart map from 1562/1594, Weiber is shown with a house. Coats of arms carved in stone remind us that the property was the seat of the Centgraf of the “Cent vorm Spessart”. Source: Wikipedia

It is definitely in the higher price range. Whether it is worth it is something everyone has to decide for themselves.

Great little castle which you can discover on the way through on the A3 near the Rohrbrunn rest area on the edge of the forest

Every kid knows this group

On the left side of the slope in the Birklersgrund are the ruins of a glassworks (Birkberghütte) at the foot of the Birkberg (480 m above sea level). Because of its special shape, the melting furnace, which was built in 1765 and is almost ten meters long, was also called the "butterfly furnace". The glass factory was founded by large French entrepreneurs. During excavations in 1979, the remains of the wall that are still visible today were uncovered. In a map from 1769, the Birkberghütte is marked as "Schmelz Hütten". Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesener_Forst

It's always nice. Unfortunately, don't come that often to get to know it better.

Luitpoldshöhe Castle was built in 1889 by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria as a hunting lodge in the Spessart near Rohrbrunn. The castle is in the district of Aschaffenburg in an area that belongs to the municipality of Weibersbrunn, but forms an exclave in the unincorporated area in the Rohrbrunn Forest. The Spessart motorway service station on the A3 is in the immediate vicinity, and the castle can be seen from the motorway. Not far from the castle in the forest is the Dianalust hunting lodge. The castle was designed by the royal chief building officer Max von Siebert, who conceived it as a Franconian half-timbered house. The master builder was Karl Buchner from Würzburg, who employed only craftsmen and artists from Würzburg. On the one hand, this resulted in a building that was based on the local Franconian style, but on the other hand it can also be recognized as a representative building. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Luitpoldshöhe