The fortress rose mountain is a castle plant over the city Kronach. For the first time the place was mentioned 1003. The fortress was never conquered in their over history. It extends over more than 23 hectares and is considered thereby than one of the largest attachment plants of Europe.

In the fortress is the Frankish gallery of the Bavarian national museum with works of Lukas Cranach D. which originated from Kronach to visit as well as from Tilman belt cutter. In addition there an information and a Dokumentationszentrum are to fortress history and stone-cutter-museum-worth seeing are also the underground courses, the five bastions and the high donjon.

In the 1. World war was in the fortress a prisoner-of-war camp for officers, in which 1917 among other things the French captain Charles de Gaulle, who was arrested later general and president.

Since 1995 annually the fist festivals take place on the area of the fortress. On the free light stage however not only the two parts fist are dargeboten, but also various other

Inside the fortress a youth hostel, a Cafeteria, a register office (wedding room) is today among other things beside the museums as well as meeting halls, which serve all kind for weddings and meetings.

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  From the top, we gazed down at mountain peaks with haloes of clouds ... At almost 10000ft, the magnificent walls of the fortress rose from their summit. ...


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