10 Sights in Miltenberg, Germany (with Map and Images)

The fort of Miltenberg-Altstadt was a Roman cohort fort of the Principate, whose garrison took over for security and surveillance tasks at the southern end of the Main Limes and at the northern beginning of the "Vorderer Limes", a section of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Obergermanisch-Raetischer Limes" (ORL). The garrison, located in the Roman province of Germania superior, is now located in the area of the district town of Miltenberg in Bavaria.

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The Mildenburg is a castle (Spornburg) built in the middle of the 12th century, originally from the Hohenstaufen and later from Mainz, above the district town of Miltenberg in the Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg in Bavaria.

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Miltenberg Hbf was the first railway station in the Bavarian town of Miltenberg from 1876. Since it was a continuous obstacle to operations as a terminus, it was replaced in passenger traffic in 1977 by Miltenberg Nord station on the right side of the Main and served as a freight station from then on until 2001.

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The Museum Stadt Miltenberg is located in the "Haus Miltenberg", a building with richly decorated Renaissance oriels on the Schnatterloch in Miltenberg. For its conception and presentation, the museum was awarded the Bavarian Museum Prize in 1999.

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St. James' Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Bavarian town of Miltenberg am Main. It is named after the apostle James the Elder. The parish includes St. Josef in the district of Breitendiel, St. Katharina in Mainbullau and St. Vitus in Wenschdorf as branch churches. The parish of St. James is part of the parish community of St. Martin. The parish belongs to the deanery of Miltenberg in the diocese of Würzburg.

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The Greinberg ring wall, formerly known as the Monbrunn ring wall or Roman redoubt, is the remains of a prehistoric Celtic ring wall at an altitude of about 430 m around the summit of the 452 m high Greinberg above the Main valley, 1200 meters east of the church of Breitendiel, a present-day district of Miltenberg in the district of Miltenberg in Bavaria. The ring wall is designated as a ground monument with the file number D-6-6321-0013 and the description as a ring wall "Greinberg" with finds from the Bronze Age, the Urnfield Period, the Hallstatt Period, the early Latène Period, the Younger Latène Period, the Roman Imperial Period and the Migration Period as well as Mercury Sanctuary of the Roman Imperial Period.

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The Würzburg Gate is a late medieval gate tower first mentioned in 1379 on the eastern edge of the old town of Miltenberg. Originally, it carried a gun platform with a crenellated ring, as this side of the city was most endangered. However, the tower was already roofed at the beginning of the 15th century. In the hook stones outside and inside the portcullis ran up and down.

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The Mainzer Tor (Spitzer Turm) is a late medieval gate tower first mentioned in 1379 on the western edge of the old town of Miltenberg. Above the gateway is the coat of arms of the Archbishop of Mainz, Adolf I of Nassau, during whose reign (1371–1390) the mighty tower was built. The tower crowning with a defensive plate reinforced by four corner turrets and a slimmer top follows the model of the keep of nearby Freudenberg Castle, which was expanded accordingly in 1361. In the year of construction, the town of Miltenberg had an extension of 2.5 kilometres between the western and eastern gate towers.

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Wallhausen is a medieval town on the Main in today's Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg. It was located on the ruins of the former Roman fort of Miltenberg-Altstadt. Wallhausen was partially destroyed in 1237 and abandoned in the following decades. Wallhausen can be described as an example of a failed medieval city foundation.

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The listed Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church is located in Miltenberg, the district seat of the Miltenberg district. The church is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments under the monument number D-6-76-139-20. The parish belongs to the deanery of Aschaffenburg in the Ansbach-Würzburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. The church is named after John the Evangelist.

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