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Town in Bavaria, Germany
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Bad Staffelstein is a spa town in the Upper Main Valley in Upper Franconia. in the middle of the picturesque region of Gottesgarten. The main attraction is the Obermain Therme with Bavaria's warmest and strongest thermal bath.
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town hall
built from 1684 to 1687 using the late medieval ground floor. It is a three-story Franconian half-timbered house.
Bamberg Tower or City Tower
Its core dates back to 1422. It is the only surviving tower from the former city fortifications and is used for art exhibitions.
Museum of the town of Bad Staffelstein
Documents on urban development under the Bamberg cathedral chapter, fossil section with exhibits on the development of life since the Cambrian and treasures from the interior of the earth, special section on Adam Riese, the master of arithmetic in the Middle Ages.
Chapel
With beautiful interior painting of saints, is next to a cáfe selling beer.
Fourteen Saints church
A pilgrimage church.
Banz Monastery
A former Benedictine monastery north of Bamberg, now an educational centre.
Bavaria's warmest and strongest thermal brine, the salt content in the original thermal brine is approx. 80 g per liter. Based on the salt content of seawater, the concentration in the bathing pools is reduced to 3 percent and in the active pool to 1.5 percent. The original thermal brine is administered in individual baths and the swimming pool.
Ebensfeld Swimming & SUP Lake
With toilets, changing rooms and showers.
The self-brewed dark land beer is available all year, from 30 April to mid-October there is a bright yeast white beer and from Friday after All Saints there is the bright Reblitz-Bock, as long as the stock reaches. All beers are only served in the inn.
Lunch 11:30-13:30, afternoon coffee, cake and brotzeit, dinner from 16:30. Self-brewed beer, guest rooms and apartments
Self-brewed, dark lager and wheat beer. Guest room / apartment
Inn with Franconian cuisine, own fish and poultry breeding, own sausage production, brewery with amber full beer.
Every 14 days, on Tuesday, there is boiled pork and blood and liver sausage from own production. During the year, eight different beers are brewed.
Upscale restaurant with a nice ambience. The beer is brewed by the brewery Hetzel in Frauenendorf in license brewing.
Brewery, butcher shop, village shop.
A few meters above the basilica there is the brewery, the special beer at the place of pilgrimage is the Nothelfertrunk, a dark monastery beer.
Brewery restaurant in the centre, it is still brewed, beer garden in front of the house.
Franconian cuisine, beer from our own brewery, overnight accommodation.
On Tuesdays there boiled meat of the pig, liver, beef with horseradish and Thursday homemade sausages, bratwurst filling, grilled pork ribs. There are also rooms available for overnight stays.
Regional cuisine, baked peasant bread, breads from own slaughter and wild game from own hunting, self-brewed dark country beer. There are also rooms available for overnight stays.
Guest house with view over Bad Staffelstein and good breakfast.
Beer sales directly from brewery ramp.
By train
By bus
Public transport in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg is operated by the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg VGN.
By car
Access from the Autobahn A73, exits AS15 Bad Staffelstein and AS14 Bad Staffelstein-Kurzentrum.
By bike
Bad Staffelstein is on the Main Cycle Path. The Werra-Obermain cycle path coming from the Werra also ends here.
The city centre, train station and Obermain thermal baths are close together; everything in the main town is within easy walking distance.
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