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What began 200 years ago and was successively achieved over half a century since 1961 will nevertheless never end – the maintenance of the Gelnhausen Imperial Palace. The original construction period, despite the difficult foundation work with around 12,000 oak piles, did not take as long as the recent

„Through this hollow lane he must come.“ What Friedrich Schiller attributed to his „Wilhelm Tell“ when he ambushed the tyrant Gessler has a firm place in the world of myths and traditions – a constricting place where one feels helplessly at the mercy of fate. It doesn't have to be such dramatic stories

Three Golgotha crosses, visible from afar, overlook the 256-meter-high Sternberg mountain south of the Aschaffenburg district of Schweinheim. They are aligned with the mighty Renaissance castle of the Mainz archbishops in the center, although the proximity does not necessarily imply cause and effect

They have become rare, those stagings that emerged with the Counter-Reformation for streets or churches, to give biblical events plastic form. Only a few historically grown Corpus Christi processions have survived, such as in Oberhessen in Mardorf, or Jesuit Good Friday processions, such as still exist

The large abundance of Easter markets almost overshadowed the fact that the idea of publicly displaying artistically decorated eggs is still quite young. It is certainly not by chance that traditional painting, writing, or gluing techniques experienced a renaissance in the 1970s with the rediscovery

In times when no municipality can resist carefully restoring every beam after the widespread use of pickaxes and wrecking balls in the post-war decades, a place like Babenhausen must feel a sense of quiet satisfaction. Despite some challenges, it has resisted all construction trends and preserved the

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They all passed through here. The High Road ran right through the Rhine-Main region, a route traversed for millennia by entire peoples and armies, pilgrims, merchants, and crowned heads, earning this long-distance route, which later connected Western and Eastern Europe, the nickname Via Regia. Even Napoleon

A white church nave rises up, clearly visible, on the southern edge of Crumstadt. With its rounded ends, it actually resembles a boat more than the usual conception of a house of worship. It has no tower and no transepts, but it is provided all around with pointed-arched windows over two stories, so

The Spessart region boasts many things that delight a hiker's heart: dense forests, tranquil valleys, and pristine waterways. Only one thing is missing – striking peaks offering unobstructed views. The situation is better only on the northwestern periphery, where the panorama opens up to the Rhine-Main