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The Main – and the Edelfrau
The Main is where vineyards have funny names such as “Edelfrau” (Noble Lady) or “Eschendorfer Lump” (Eschendorf Rascal), and where fish such as the “round goby” swim in the water. It connects the Rhine with the Danube, the North Sea with the Black Sea, and is the longest tributary of the Rhine. It winds its way through loops, has Bamberg on its left and eventually you’ll see the Staffelberg.
Along the Main
If you walk up the Main, you can feel a little of what the poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel must have felt when he wrote the Lied der Franken, “The Franconians’ song”. “From Bamberg to the Grabfeld Gau mountains and hills frame the broad pasture divided by a shining stream.” The landscape on the Main is a succession of vineyards, asparagus fields and orchards. And the cities on its banks are also worth a run ashore. Schweinfurt with the Leopoldina, the oldest scientific academy in Europe, Frankfurt (hello Goethe) or Bayreuth (hello Wagner). Travelling on the Main is very different from the Rhine and Mosel, but very special.
Nuremberg
Germany
Fine wooden toys, jumping frogs and tin music boxes, colourful tableware and stationery – all handmade in local manufactories. The Handwerkerhof in Nuremberg is perfect for small and original souvenirs from the trip. Because your loved ones back home will definitely ask of such a special river cruise: Did you bring me something? Those who have been to Nuremberg also bring back stories. For example, from a visit to the Albrecht Dürer House, from a stroll through the Old Town with the Kaiserburg and the churches and the medieval fortress walls, from the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, where the National Socialists held their party congresses and where the Nuremberg Trials were later held. From the “Marriage Carousel”, a fountain with larger-than-life bronze figures thematising the “bittersweet way of conjugal life”. And from the hangman’s house. There is a lot to tell.
Nuremberg
Germany
Fine wooden toys, jumping frogs and tin music boxes, colourful tableware and stationery – all handmade in local manufactories. The Handwerkerhof in Nuremberg is perfect for small and original souvenirs from the trip. Because your loved ones back home will definitely ask of such a special river cruise: Did you bring me something? Those who have been to Nuremberg also bring back stories. For example, from a visit to the Albrecht Dürer House, from a stroll through the Old Town with the Kaiserburg and the churches and the medieval fortress walls, from the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, where the National Socialists held their party congresses and where the Nuremberg Trials were later held. From the “Marriage Carousel”, a fountain with larger-than-life bronze figures thematising the “bittersweet way of conjugal life”. And from the hangman’s house. There is a lot to tell.
