A delightful piece of our homeland is to be found where the old Giechburg defiantly looks down from the Jura Heights.
Woods crown the hills and wide meadows and fields spread over the charming valley.
The road to Bayreuth threads its way down the middle alongside the gleaming railway track and the elder trees lining the banks of the stream. Of course, the Schesslitz countryside is more frequented in spring and summer. At these times of the year, one of the many beautiful villages at the foot of the old castle is then generally chosen as final destination. Most certainly, many of us have sat somewhere here under the lime or old beech trees on hot afternoons or in the mild summer evenings without being aware of the fact that the four oldest alehouses in the entire Bamberg country are sitting on the doorstep in the villages around the Giech rocks. When the estates of the Meranic nobility slowly collapsed and were turned to ruins around the year 1308 to finally come under the Bamberg Charity by deed in 1390, the greater part of the Schesslitz country became part of Bamberg.