Franconia Facts for Kids

Nuremberg Castle

Franconia (German: Franken) is the northern part of the German federal state of Bavaria. This region is divided in three smaller regions: Oberfranken, Mittelfranken, and Unterfranken. The biggest city in Franconia is Nuremberg.

Other large cities in Franconia are Coburg, Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Schweinfurt and Hof.

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Nuremberg
Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg
Schweinfurt
The present-day Upper, Lower and Middle Franconian administrative districts (in blue), with adjacent East Franconian language areas in Thuringia (tan) and in Baden-Württemberg (yellow)
The Franconian Rake may be used as an indicator of whether a place is part of Franconia. Here: the vestry of Meiningen's municipal church in South Thuringia. The Franconian Rake may be seen on the left
The lake of Großer Brombachsee. View over Ramsberg looking east towards the dam
The Steinerne Rinne near Rohrbach, Ettenstatt, county of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
Opened-up, copper-ore-bearing, Spessart crystalline rock in Sommerkahl near Aschaffenburg
Fine sandstone, siltstone and argillites of the bunter sandstone layer (Lower Triassic) in the Seltenbach Gorge in the Spessart
Tower-like rocks of Upper Jurassic-Corallian Limestone in Tüchersfeld, northern Franconian Jura (Franconian Switzerland)
Skull and forward cervical spine of Plateosaurus engelhardti, probably the replica of a skeleton from Ellingen
The so-called London Exemplar of Archaeopteryx (here a replica) comes from the Langenaltheim Quarry, west of Solnhofen.
The Celts built the mighty fortress of Menosgada on the Staffelberg
A 1990 replica of the Porta decumana of the Biriciana. View over the camp ring road
Franconian warrior's grave goods from the early mediaeval burial site of Westheim
Duchy of Franconia around 800
Franconia around 1200
Extent of the uprisings in the Peasants' War
Part of Wallenstein's camp around Zirndorf and the Alte Veste
The Franconian Imperial Circle in 1789
Destruction in Heilbronn in 1945
The Pellerhaus in Nuremberg was one of the most important buildings of the Renaissance period from 1605 until the destruction of its façade in 1945.
The administrative reform in Bavaria in the Franconian county of Ansbach
Distribution of the East Franconian dialects with transition zones
One of the best known tourist attractions in Franconia is the town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Schloss Langenburg (Baden-Württemberg) lies on the Castle Road
Rothenburg is one of the best known towns in Franconia
Walberla in Franconia
Water wheel at the Regnitz
Nuremberg is the largest city of Franconia
Aerial view of the Veste Coburg
Schäuferla
Three Nuremberger Bratwürste in a roll (Drei im Weckla)
Schlenkerla Rauchbier straight from the cask
Franconian wine is traditionally filled up in Bocksbeutels
Fried Carp with beer and salad

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