Attractions and Places To See around An der Poststraße - Top 20

Museum & Exhibitions High above the wine-growing town of Freyburg lies Neuenburg, the sister castle of Wartburg, founded around 1090 by the Thuringian Count Ludwig the Springer. The first mighty complex was built by 1150. The rise of the Landgraves of Thuringia was accompanied by further magnificent expansion. By 1230, Neuenburg was already around three times as large as Wartburg! The Romanesque double chapel built around 1170/75 is still an architectural gem today. On behalf of Hermann I, Heinrich von Veldeke completed the Eneasroman around 1185, the first Middle High German knightly-courtly verse epic ever. Neuenburg experienced the end of its high medieval heyday under Landgrave Ludwig IV and his wife, Saint Elisabeth.

UNSTRUT Source near Kefferhausen in Eichsfeld (400m); Length 192 km; Estuary Großjena near Naumburg into the Saale The Unstrut rises west of Kefferhausen near Dingelstädt in northern Thuringia in southern Eichsfeld. In the Sachsenburg or Thuringian Gate it breaks through the Hainleite. In its lower reaches it flows in numerous loops through the Burgenland district in southern Saxony-Anhalt; below Memleben it is initially flanked by the Ziegelroda Plateau, near Laucha by the Dorndorf Plateau, near Freyburg by the limestone-rich Silent Mountains and flows into the Großjenaer Blumengrund near Naumburg Saale. SAALE Source near Zell in the Fichtelgebirge (728m); Length 413 km; Estuary near Barby into the Elbe The Saale rises in the Fichtelgebirge in Upper Franconia between Zell and Weißenstadt. The upper reaches of the Saale between Zell and Hof are quite leisurely. The river then runs straight through the Thuringian Slate Mountains. The Saale is dammed several times here. The area of the middle Saale begins with the river exiting the Thuringian Slate Mountains and entering the Triassic plate and hill country. After leaving the Saale-Unstrut-Triasland Nature Park near Naumburg, the lower reaches of the river begin. This runs in a flat landscape to the mouth of the Elbe near Barby. Source: http://www.reportagereisen.de/unstrut_01.html

At the bus stop you will find information such as signposts

On the other side of the Wasserschlösschen also very interesting and a place with plenty of fish

The 192 km long Unstrt flows into the 412 km long Saale near Naumburg.

The unique ambience and the special characteristics of the Rudelsburg are primarily characterized by its almost thousand-year history. A past that, on the one hand, can tell of many armed conflicts and decay, but on the other hand of an incredible amount of life in the castle courtyard. So it is not surprising that Franz Kugler wrote the song "An der Saale hellem Strande" on the Rudelsburg in 1826 when he took a break during a hike on the Saale. In a similarly romantic mood, Hermann Allmers wrote "There Saaleck, here the Rudelsburg" in 1863 - a song that can still be heard time and again today from the castle keep down into the Saale valley. The Rudelsburg is, as it is today, “a place to rave and drink”. For the history of the Rudelsburg see https://www.rudelsburg.info/geschichte/ There you will also find information about the recommended castle restaurant - in the inner courtyard when the weather is nice.

This is where the good drop grows. The Saale-Unstrut wine-growing region is the fifth smallest and northernmost German wine-growing region with just 798 hectares of vineyards - the meager, albeit slightly increasing remnant of a thousand-year-old, once important viticulture since the beginning of the 1990s.

Wonderful to sit here at the bar and look at the castle and the vineyard. The wine is delicious.