Ruin aura
The ruin Aura is a church ruin in the valley of the Franconian Saale on the southern foothills of the Rhön .
Geographical location
The ruin Aura rises in the Bad Kissingen district between the municipalities of Bad Kissingen and Aura an der Saale on a small hill next to the town of the same name.
history
From 1618 the church was commissioned as a pilgrimage church by the Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen . Because of the beginning of the Thirty Years War and the death of the client, however, the church was never completed.
The complex is to be distinguished from the Aura monastery .
The ruin Aura as a destination
In 1900 a restaurant was built right next to the ruin, which was connected to another building inside the ruin via a breakthrough. In 1959 the restaurant with a terrace, which still exists today, was built further away from the ruins. Some well-known personalities visited the ruin, such as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , the painter Adolph von Menzel and Federal President Theodor Heuss .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 59 ″ E