The city of Pottenstein, altitude 350–614 m AMSL, with its nearly 1,500 inhabitants, is a health-resort in Franconian Switzerland. It nestles at the convergence of the Püttlach, Weihersbach and Haselbrunn surrounded by high and at the foot of the 1000-year-old castle, which has played an important role throughout the city’s history.
Ancient town Pottenstein – thousand years old town, situated deep in the Fränkische Schweiz (Franconian Switzerland), between the cliffs, isolated from the outside world. Coming here make me feel like time was stopped, with old houses, and a fort, located on a cliff overarching the region. Autumn passed by and winter came. This town is beautiful all seasons.
Ancient fortress on a crag.
Looks old but the inside was still very nice
Ancient town in a winter afternoon, looked pretty dim.
But autunm afternoon shows us something distant and calm
The market square, with its statue of Saint Elisabeth, the Catholic Church, shops, restaurants and hotels form the central area of the city. The guestrooms are mostly in the residential areas, in the valleys leading out of the centre of town and in and above the cliffs overlooking the town. Easily reached from all the residential areas is the health centre with its massage department/medical swim therapy department, station for respiratory illnesses in Devil’s Cave, the Kneipp facility, the tourist information centre, the park, putting green, tennis courts, Schöngrund Lake with its rowing boats and pedalos, the “summer bobsleigh route”. the “Felsenbad” (between the rocks), and golfcourse. There are 450 kilometres of marked paths for walking.
Ancient town Pottenstein – thousand years old town, situated deep in the Fränkische Schweiz (Franconian Switzerland), between the cliffs, isolated from the outside world. Coming here make me feel like time was stopped, with old houses, and a fort, located on a cliff overarching the region. Autumn passed by and winter came. This town is beautiful all seasons.
Looks old but the inside was still very nice
Ancient town in a winter afternoon, looked pretty dim.
But autunm afternoon shows us something distant and calm
