Since prehistoric times, trade routes like the Lindenweg or Linienweg connected the Rhine-Main plain with the Usingen basin, which had been a centre of population since the Neolithic.
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The Saalburg, located just off the main road roughly halfway between Bad Homburg and Wehrheim is the most completely reconstructed Roman fort in Germany.
The festival lasts three days and takes place on the second weekend of August in Thüringen at the Bleilochtalsperre near Saalburg-Ebersdorf.
The following Roman forts have yielded inscriptions attesting the regiment: Arnsburg, Butzbach, Friedburg, Kleestadt, Saalburg and Stockstadt am Main.
Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born: 29 November 1662 in Bad Lobenstein; died: 10 June 1711 in Ebersdorf, was a member of the House of Reuss (younger line).
Heinrich XLV was born at Ebersdorf, Reuss Younger Line, only surviving son of Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858–1928), (son of Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg) and his wife, Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1864–1929), (daughter of Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodora of Leiningen).
His property passed to the Ruess family who contested control of the Lordship of Schleiz with Saalburg and Burgk with his widow for the next twenty years.