History

• 9th century AD -Court of a Franconian king at the cross roads of important trade routes
• 1219 - Passed on as a gift from the princes of Hohenlohe to the Teutonic Order
• 1250 – 1274 - Building of St. John's Minster
• 1526-1806 - Residence of the Teutonic Order; construction of the castle
• 1564 - Construction of the Renaissance Town Hall
• 1730-1736 -Castle church built with the involvement of Balthasar Neumann
• 1826 - Shepherd Franz Gehrig discovers the mineral springs