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The ruins have a very special character due to their construction – you can still really feel the connection between nature and medieval architecture.

In any case, it's a huge building. More defiant than beautiful.

The Baroque palace was built in several phases at the end of the 17th and 18th centuries (1694-1786) as a summer residence for the abbots of Langheim. During the first phase, the Langheim abbot Gallus Knauer had the eastern wing built between 1694 and 1698, based on plans attributed to Johann Leonard Dietzenhofer. The later sections of the west wing and western central wing were originally constructed as four-story outbuildings. The four floors reached a total height equal to the three living floors of the first building section. However, by the end of the 18th century, there was already a desire to make the palace-like three-wing complex more prestigious. Source: https://www.wildpark-tambach.de/wildpark-schloss-tambach/schloss-tambach

The town is located in the oldest prehistoric settlement area in the Main Valley. In a very small area, there is continuous evidence of settlement, which stretches from the Paleolithic period through the Hallstatt period to the Carolingian period. The name of the town was already borne by the fortress built around the year 1000 on a hill, a "light rock", and destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. Duke Otto I of Andechs-Merania had his market town of Lichtenfels fortified in 1231, which can probably be interpreted as an indication that town rights had already been granted. A place on the Main and centrally located on old streets was deliberately chosen for the founding of Lichtenfels. The spacious market square, the center of the town, where all the alleys and paths converged, was and is well suited for weekly and annual markets. Source: https://www.lichtenfels.de/leben-und-wohnen/unser-lichtenfels/stadtportrait/die-geschichte-der-stadt-lichtenfels

The southern castle is still inhabited and privately owned. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Lichtenstein_(Unterfranken)

Directly in front of the Rotenhan ruins there are two nice rest areas.

The Rotenhan castle ruins are one of the few genuine rock castles in Germany and the ancestral home of the important Rotenhan noble family. The ruins are one of Bavaria's most beautiful and impressive geotopes and are freely accessible.

The ruins of the high medieval rock castle Rotenhan are located at 380 m above sea level about two kilometers north of Ebern above the district of Eyrichshof in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia. The castle complex is the ancestral seat of the Barons of Rotenhan, who still own it today. Wikipedia