The castle ruins Lichtenberg has been wonderfully restored and is always on the first weekend in September venue of the medieval castle festival. This is organized by the castle friends …
Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch introduced mechanical papermaking in Blankenberg in 1843. Until 1993, parchment paper and printing paper were produced in the Thuringian city on the river Saale. Today you can learn more about the times in a museum.
Great view and great chance to overcome altitude difference, if you combine the tour to the castle mountain with a part of Grenzersteig to make the tour a little more challenging
The Reitzenstein family descended from the ancient Franconian nobility. They first appeared in documents in 1318 under the name "Konrad von der Grün," to whom the family line also traces …