What a bear is to a Berliner, a hedgehog (“Stupfl”) is to a Schillingsfürst resident. It is the unofficial heraldic animal of the Middle Franconian town, a mascot, a figurehead.
Highlights along the Romantic Road
Bock mountain
Bock (570 m): highest hill in this part of the Swabian Jura with a good view over the Ries crater.
Old town hall
Old Town Hall (after 1567, 19th century), Copyright Stadt Weikersheim/Christel Nowak
Celtic wall in Burgstall
Finsterlohr fortifications and keep (about 100 BC), one of the biggest Celtic ring walls in Southern Germany, Copyright Tourist Information…
Brattenstein Castle
Brattenstein Castle (13th century) – the modern setting for the ‘Röttingen Festival’, Copyright Frankenfestspiele Röttingen
Castle of the Teutonic Order
Baroque Castle of the Teutonic Order with attractive Rococo chapel.
Käppele Würzburg
Käppele: Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of Mercy; 1653) on the Nikolausberg hill with domed central building and double tower façade by Balthasar…