Castles & Palaces
The crags and hillside edges were ideal locations to build castles and palaces as for example in Waldenburg, Buchenbach, Krautheim and palace Stetten.
After the Thirty-Year War several castles were converted to representative palaces. Separate royal household, an atmospheric courtyard garden, a summer residence as in Pfedelbach and Kupferzell or a hunting lodge as in Hermersberg and Friedrichsruhe. But also in Forchtenberg and Ingelfingen exceptional parts of town wall with guard's walkways, towers and gates were preserved.
If you make time, you will also discover idyllic corners and treasures, created by nature and humans away from the cultural highlights. For centuries several mills and bridges have been belonging to the river landscape of Kocher and Jagst. Some stone arched bridges have been crowned with the figure of Saint Nepomuk since time immemorial, whether in Schöntal, Altkrautheim or Zaisenhausen.
Artistically carved and painted corner beams, displayed on stately half-timbered houses, point to the builder. Colourful gardens are still the pride of the Hohenlohe countrywomen and artistically forged or in stone chiselled pub signboards tell you that an inn or brewery existed in nearly every village in the past.
