Beer and Castle Road
The Bier- und Burgenstraße is a German themed street that runs around 500 km along federal highway 85 from Passau in Bavaria to Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia .
history
In 1977 the Bier- und Burgenstraße eV association was founded by the Kulmbach innkeeper Günter Limmer and with it the Bier- und Burgenstraße. The first section at that time was the 79 km long Kulmbach– Ludwigsstadt route .
In the following years, new sections of the route were added and the themed road was extended to 478 km. With short detours along federal highway 85, it is 547 km long.
In 2007, the 30th anniversary of the Beer and Castle Road was celebrated .
Attractions
Castles (and other structures) :
- Kyffhäuser Monument ( Bad Frankenhausen )
- Goethe's garden house ( Weimar )
- Apolda Castle ( Apolda )
- Goethe Fountain ( Bad Berka )
- Upper Castle ( Kranichfeld )
- Blankenhain Castle ( Blankenhain )
- Heidecksburg Castle ( Rudolstadt )
- Greifenstein Castle ( Bad Blankenburg )
- Kaulsdorf Castle (Saale) ( Kaulsdorf )
- Wespenstein Castle ( Graefenthal )
- Friedensburg Castle ( Leutenberg )
- Lauenstein Castle ( Ludwigsstadt )
- Trogenbach Bridge (Ludwigsstadt)
- Heunischenburg ( Kronach )
- Rosenberg Fortress (Kronach)
- Mitwitz moated castle ( Mitwitz )
- Plassenburg ( Kulmbach )
- Theuern Castle ( Amberg )
- Biertor Cham ( Cham )
- Runding Castle ( Runding )
- Weissenstein Castle ( Regen )
Museums :
- Bavarian Brewery and Bakery Museum (Kulmbach)
- Beer adventure world (Bayreuth)
Breweries
- Club brewery Apolda
- Watzdorfer Brewery ( Bad Blankenburg )
- Bourgeois brewery in Saalfeld
- Antla-Bräu, Kronach
- Kaiserhof brewery , Kronach
- Gampertbräu , Weißenbrunn
- Kulmbacher brewery
- Sperber-Bräu, Sulzbach-Rosenberg
- Hofmark Brewery , Loifling
See also
literature
- Andrea Himmelstoss: Beer and Castle Road: Visiting brewers and knights. Grebennikov Verlag, explorise Ferienstraßen, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941784-30-7 .