Upper Franconia
Upper Franconia is an administrative region of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, which are all part of Bavaria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bamberg and Bayreuth.
Bamberg
Bamberg is in Upper Franconia. The town has slightly over 70,000 residents. For its historical architecture and preserved heritage, the whole town of Bamberg is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
Bayreuth
The festival city of Bayreuth in Upper Franconia is relatively quiet most of the year until the Richard Wagner Festival settles in for 30 days every summer.
Coburg
Coburg is a city in Upper Franconia. Coburg has been a household name since the 19th century as the local, relatively minor noble family "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" managed to marry into plenty of European royal families, leading to "European family reunions" at their place during the Belle Epoque.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Hof and Kulmbach.
Hof
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Hof is a city of 45,000 people in Upper Franconia in Bavaria. Hof, meaning farm estate, is a very common German place name, but this one is specifically Hof an der Saale.
Kulmbach
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Kulmbach is a city in Franconia. Its main claim to fame is a high brewery density, which albeit much diminished with economic consolidation was historically quite remarkable.
Forchheim
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Forchheim is a small town in Franconia with an interesting old town. Forchheim is most famous for its ten-day-long beer and music festival which takes place in late July in an idyllic wooded hillside, home to 24 beer gardens, on the outskirts of the town.
Bad Staffelstein
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Bad Staffelstein is a spa town in the Upper Main Valley in Upper Franconia. in the middle of the picturesque region of Gottesgarten. The main attraction is the Obermain Therme with Bavaria's warmest and strongest thermal bath.
Pegnitz
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Pegnitz is a town of some 14,000 people in Upper Franconia. The entire preserved inner city centre is a listed building, including the medieval town hall from 1347.
Pottenstein
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Pottenstein is a town in Franconian Switzerland, in the district of Upper Franconia. Pottenstein is in the steep rocky gorge carved by the River Püttlach, with many interesting rock formations, overlooked by Pottenstein Castle since the 11th century.
Aufseß
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Aufseß a municipality of 1,300 people in Upper Franconia. It is most well known as the village with the most beer breweries per capita, however it can be thought of as a set of hamlets along the St2188, each with their own brewery.
Gößweinstein
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Gößweinstein is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. It lies within the region known as Franconian Switzerland.
Buttenheim
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Buttenheim is in Upper Franconia. Its main claim to fame is being the birthplace of Levi Strauß the inventor of blue jeans and founder of the namesake company.
Fichtelgebirge
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The Fichtel Mountains is a mountain range in Germany and the Czech Republic. They extend from the valley of the Red Main River in northeastern Bavaria to the Karlovy Vary Region in western Czech Republic.
Franconian Switzerland
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The Franconian Switzerland is an upland in Franconia, northern Bavaria and a popular tourist retreat. It is one of the oldest and most popular holiday areas in Germany.
Mödlareuth
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Mödlareuth is a small, unincorporated German village divided between the towns of Töpen, Upper Franconia, Bavaria and Gefell, Thuringia. Historically, Mödlareuth was split Berlin-style by the East German border wall as part of the front line of Cold War Europe.
Upper Franconia
- Type: Regierungsbezirk with 1,060,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of Franconia in Bavaria, Germany
- Neighbors: Lower Franconia, Middle Franconia, and Upper Palatinate
- Category: regional district in Bavaria
- Location: Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Upper Franconia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Oberfranken”
- Arabic: “أُوبِرَ فرَانكن”
- Arabic: “فرانكونيا العليا”
- Arabic: “فرنكونيا العليا”
- Arabic: “محافظة فرنكونيا العليا”
- Aragonese: “Alta Franconia”
- Armenian: “Վերին Ֆրանկոնիա”
- Asturian: “Alta Franconia”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Frankoniya”
- Basque: “Frankonia Garaia”
- Bavarian: “Obafrankn”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Франконія”
- Bulgarian: “Горна Франкония”
- Catalan: “Oberfranken”
- Cebuano: “Upper Franconia”
- Chinese: “上弗兰肯行政区”
- Chuvash: “Тури Франкони”
- Czech: “Horní Franky”
- Danish: “Oberfranken”
- Dutch: “Bezirk Oberfranken”
- Dutch: “Oberfranken”
- Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Oberfranken”
- Esperanto: “Supra Frankonio”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Frangimaa ringkond”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Frangimaa”
- Finnish: “Oberfranken”
- French: “district de Haute-Franconie”
- French: “District de Haute-Franconie”
- French: “Haute-Franconie”
- Galician: “Alta Franconia”
- German: “Mainkreis”
- German: “Oberfranken (Bezirk)”
- German: “Oberfranken”
- German: “Obermainkreis”
- German: “OFr”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Oberfranken”
- Greek: “Άνω Φρανκονία”
- Hebrew: “פרנקוניה עילית”
- Hungarian: “Felső-Frankföld”
- Indonesian: “Oberfranken”
- Interlingue: “Supra Franconia”
- Italian: “Alta Franconia”
- Italian: “Distretto dell’Alta Franconia”
- Italian: “Distretto governativo dell’Alta Franconia”
- Japanese: “オーバーフランケン”
- Japanese: “オーバーフランケン県”
- Japanese: “オーバーフランケン行政管区”
- Korean: “오버프랑켄 현”
- Korean: “오버프랑켄현”
- Kurdish: “Frankonyaya Jorîn”
- Latvian: “Augšfrankonija”
- Lombard: “Alta Francònia”
- Low German: “Böverfranken”
- Low German: “Opperfranken”
- Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Uewerfranken”
- Luxembourgish: “Uewerfranken”
- Macedonian: “Горна Франконија”
- Maltese: “Oberfranken”
- Northern Frisian: “Oberfranken”
- Northern Sami: “Oberfranken (ráđđehusdistrikta)”
- Northern Sami: “Oberfranken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberfranken”
- Norwegian: “Oberfranken”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Франкони”
- Persian: “فرانکن علیا”
- Polish: “Górna Frankonia”
- Portuguese: “Alta Francónia”
- Romanian: “Franconia Superioară”
- Russian: “Верхняя Франкония”
- Serbian: “Горња Франконија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gornja Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Gornja Frankovska”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Frankovska”
- Slovenian: “Zgornje Frankovsko”
- Spanish: “Alta Franconia”
- Swedish: “Oberfranken”
- Tajik: “Франконияи Болоӣ”
- Tatar: “Югары Франкония”
- Thai: “โอเบอร์ฟรังเคิน”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Frankonya”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Франконія”
- Urdu: “فرینکونیا بالا”
- Vietnamese: “Oberfranken”
- “Oberfranken”
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