Top 20 Caves ヴァイセノーエでの

The Frauenhöhle natural monument is located north of Egloffstein Castle.

It's quite a climb, but the effort is worth it! The Hollow Church, an impressive dolomite rock formation with a passage and viewpoint, is definitely a highlight of the area!

Very beautiful little cave system that has not been converted to be suitable for tourists. So remember to wear good shoes and bring a lamp.

A typical Franconian cave, but the route is poor for mountain bikes. At the moment it is difficult to go down with a mountain bike because of the many tree trunks lying across it. Komoot also leads you to a fenced-in property that you have to go around behind a thick hedge.

Interesting with the upper cave, into which you could penetrate up to 35 m deep if the slippery ground allows it. The lower cave was once planned as a show cave (lorry tracks), but collapsed. The third cave is only about 4 meters deep and a little more difficult to reach.

Think about the flashlight. A kind of rock cellar that can be visited

Stierberg castle ruins The castle and the town at its feet owed their importance to the junction here from the high road, the section of the “via imperii” between Nuremberg and Bayreuth. This north-south axis crossed in Stierberg with the Altstrasse, which ran from west to east. The name Stierberg first appeared in 1187 with the mention of Otnand de Stierberc and in 1188 by a Poppo von Stierberch, both of which were ministerial offices of the Bishopric of Bamberg. Before 1308, the castle, which was later owned by the diocese, passed to the noble lords of Schlüsselberg. In 1306, Landgrave Ulrich von Leuchtenberg entrusted the castle to the Bishopric of Trier. In 1356 the property passed as a fief to Emperor Charles IV and thus to Bohemia. In 1417 Stierberg was sold to John of Bavaria by Landgrave Leopold. After the Landshut War of Succession, Stierberg fell into the hands of the Nurembergs without a fight in 1504 and thus to the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Then regained in the same year by the Palatinate under Ludwig von Eyb, but apparently significantly damaged during these fighting. Retaken by the Nuremberg troops in 1505, Stierberg and Betzenstein became part of the imperial city of Nuremberg. In the second federal war in 1553, the village and Stierberg Castle were shelled and captured by margrave troops, and the castle burned down completely. The castle ruins lie on a dolomite rock reef that slopes down on three sides. The upper main castle (southwest of the natural cut) only has a few remains of walls. You can see a piece of wall about 8 meters high and 1.3 meters thick and, at the highest elevation, wall rubble and remains of the foundation wall. To the north of the cutting there is a well-preserved, extended round tower on an isolated rock, 6 meters high and with quarry stone walls up to 1.8 meters thick. To the southeast at a height of around 2 meters there is an arched entrance opening. The top of the wall is covered with cement and bears a restoration inscription from 1914. The former bailiwick house, built in 1778/79, stands on the sloping slope. Behind the house is access to a partly artificial cave that runs through the entire castle rock in a southwesterly direction. Source: information board

You can only find something like this in Franconian Switzerland, super narrow trails paired with a cave passage! A 400 km journey is worth it for a Saarlander, of course with a week's vacation 🚵‍♂️👍