Frankenberg

Frankenberg and deer Eder is a metropolis in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany. The mountain at a ford over the Eder north of the Burgwald range changed into for a long term a fortified vicinity, playing an particularly essential position beneath the Franks inside the Saxon Wars. The metropolis turned into built in 1233 Thuringia Landgrave on the junction of trade routes. The renovated Old and New Town have many half of-timbered houses. At the foot of the mountain on which the city of.

Frankenberg was constructed crossed vintage navy and commercial roads. From the vicinity of the lower Main, from the Burgwald variety, came the Weinstrasse "Wine Road", crossing the Eder via a ford after which going on through the heights on the river's left bank to Westphalia. From the west came the Signer Stressed "Siegen Road" over the Lahn-Eder watershed, leading spherical the mountain to the north and in addition on into Lower Hesse.