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The entire route along the Querkelsteig trail is very easy and interesting for everyone to walk.

This castle also deserves attention.

This is where the "Totenlache" station on the Siemau Legend Trail is located. The legend on the panel is worth reading and interesting.

The legend can be found here: https://www.untersiemau.de/freizeit-kultur/siemauer-sagenwelten/querkelsteig/der-spuk-an-der-eselsbruecke-bei-meschenbach/

Here at the Eselsbrücke (donkey bridge) is a station on the Simauer Legend Trail. The information panel provides a detailed description of the legend.

A very well-preserved historic arched bridge, which, newly renovated, is a real eye-catcher. You rarely see something like it.

During the Third Reich, the castle was initially used by the Reichspost (Reich Postal Service) as a postal convalescent home from 1941 onward. After the Second World War, the German Federal Postal Service leased it to Caritas, which operated a retirement home. In 1976, the Postal Service sold the property to Munich entrepreneur Oskar Hacker, who had the castle restored between 1987 and 1993 to use it as a hotel and restaurant. Following Oskar Hacker's death in 2016, the castle has been owned by the non-profit Oskar Hacker Foundation, which has its headquarters in the castle. The foundation operates the Oskar Hacker Art Forum, which, among other things, has erected the permanent exhibition "Glaskunst im Schlosspark" by Borowski and a White Cube by photographer Mike Meyer in the park since 2024. The hotel and upscale restaurants are leased. Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hohenstein_(Oberfranken)

Today's Hohenstein Castle was first documented in 1306 as "Castum Hohenstein in dem Grabfelde," or "castle." Countess Jutta von Henneberg was listed as its owner. Over the next 150 years, the hilltop castle changed hands several times until Duke William of Saxony, who granted the castle "zu dem Hohen Steyn" as a fief to the brothers Hans and Thomas von Lichtenstein. In 1466, the Bamberg vassals Kunz von Aufseß and Kunz von Streitberg, whose ancestral castles were located in Franconian Switzerland, devastated the castle. Both knights, along with their brother Kunz Ochs, who was also involved, were soon sentenced by the Coburg City Court to compensate for the damage caused and to pay 4,000 guilders to the Coburg rulers for breach of the peace. Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hohenstein_(Oberfranken)