Heldburger Land

Soon after, have Henneberger influence in Heldburger Land, in the area of the castle Strufe, obtained, in the territory of the Diocese of Würzburg.

After several conquests and plundering in the Thirty Years' War the castle was held in 1776 and re- attached residence of the Ernestine dukes of Saxe- Hildburghausen and finally in 1871 the property of the Meininger royal house.

The actress Ellen Franz Courtyard of the castle Veste Heldburg, 1872, left the French building(Französischer Bau).

Thus, the existing condition until today had occurred, that the Heldburger tip is surrounded on three sides by Bavarian region.

Coming out of the Holzhäuser Tal (valley of Holzhausen) brook Saarbach nearby Heldburg in the Kreck.

In Hellinger Tal running the river Helling and flow south of the Heldburger Land at Autenhausen in the Kreck.

In the East, crosses the river Rodach (Itz), whose source is near Hildburghausen, multiply the border between Thuringia and Bavaria.

All mentioned rivers carry their waters ultimately in the Upper Franconian Itz, which finally empties into the Main.

Today's meadows at the confluence of the Saarbach in the Kreck were flooded and made the Heldburger or Hundshauker See (lake) of approximately 25.5 ha with a thriving fish.

(reigned 1782-1803) made a new agricultural policy and left many waters in the Duchy of Meiningen dry place, including this lake.

Bad Colberg has since 2002 the state recognition as an Ort mit Heilquellen und Kurbetrieb (place of healing springs and cure).

The Heldburger Castle Hill is also made of basaltic rock that phonolite (Sparkling Stone) is called.

The most famous of which is called the devil or hell wall and runs from Gleichamberg to Trappstadt and on to the Main river.

Geologists call the many dot-like running from northeast to southwest basalt veins Heldburger Gangschar.

Keuper (or Kipper) is a term for coburgische colored marl and sandstone is composed of sand, clay and carbonate sediments.

The choir of St. Moriz Church was endowed by John Casimir in 1598 in the honor of his parents with one of the most beautiful Renaissance epitaphs in Germany – a 12-metre-high (39-foot-high) alabaster monument with a richly sculptured series of pictures.

By gypsum layers seeping groundwater sources is with a bitter taste, a common phenomenon in Heldburger Land, which led to problems in the drinking water supply.

In the shade of oak-hornbeam forests thrive there contiguous areas of arum, lily of the valley, primroses, liverworts, forget-me-not and ramsons.

A particular reservoir, the in the past few decades between the boundary fences growing vegetation represents, for botanists interested in immediately after the opening of the border.

Chance sees tree hawks, great grey shrike in southern Thuringia, and the locally occurring buntings.

The artificial reservoirs of Heldburger Land offer many marsh and water birds while passing train suitable rest facilities.