It was renovated and expanded in the late 1990s and now prides itself on having a stationary telescope.
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Froben Christoph of Zimmern (19 February 1519 at Mespelbrunn Castle in the Spessart – 27 November 1566, probably in Meßkirch) was the author of "Zimmern Chronicle" and a member of the Swabian noble family Zimmern.
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Froben Christopher of Zimmer was born on 19 February 1519 at Mespelbrunn Castle in the Spessart as the son of John Werner and his wife, Catherine of Erbach.
The northern route through the Gap passes south of the Knüllgebirge and then continues around the northern flank of the Vogelsberg Mountains; the narrower southern route passes through the Fliede and Kinzig Valleys, with the Vogelsberg to the north and the Rhön mountains and Spessart mountains to the south.
The community lies eastsoutheast of Aschaffenburg on the western edge of the Spessart (range) between Aschaffenburg and the “fairytale castle” of Mespelbrunn.
In Kleinwallstadt, then also known as Bischofswallstadt, which was converted to Christianity as early as the early 8th century, the Archbishop of Mainz established in 1023 a Vogtei and a tithe court over a great expanse of the Spessart (range).
The Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage power power station near Gemünden am Main at the Main in the under-Frankish district Main Spessart (Bavaria), which went in service in 1976.
The community is rich in woodland (roughly 1 000 ha) at the seam between the Spessart’s mostly bunter-based geology and that found on the Fränkische Platte (a flat, mostly agricultural region), which is mostly Muschelkalk-based.
In 1914 the legendary 0-8-8-0 Mallet locomotives, the Bavarian Gt 2x4/4s (later DRG Class 96) arrived as banking engines for the Spessart Ramp.
Schloss Mespelbrunn, actually located within the Spessart hills, was used as the castle of Graf Sandau.
Waldhufendörfer and Hagenhufendörfer are especially common in the Ore Mountains and their foreland as well as in East Saxony, the Sudeten and the Beskids, as well as the Thuringian Forest, Fichtelgebirge, Bavarian Forest, Bohemian Forest, Spessart, Odenwald, Westrich, North Black Forest and Nordvorpommern.
The once autonomous community of Rohrbrunn achieved a greater measure of fame from the so-called former Spessart Inn (Wirtshaus im Spessart), whose name was used as the title of a narrative by Wilhelm Hauff, and also of the 1958 film based on the book.