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The Archdiocese of Bamberg is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria and is one of 27 Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany. About a third of the population is Catholic. With 15.6% this diocese has one of higher (relative) numbers of worshippers on Sunday in Germany. It comprises the majority of the administrative regions of Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia, as well as a small part of Lower Franconia and the Upper Palatinate. Its seat is Bamberg. The dioceses of Speyer, Eichstätt, and Würzburg are subordinate to it. The Diocese was founded in 1007 out of parts of the dioceses of Eichstätt and Würzburg. In 1817, the diocese was raised to an archdiocese.
Eckersdorf is a municipality in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria in Germany.
Wiesent is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany.
The Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz e. V. or DFS is a German museum railway based in Ebermannstadt in Franconian Switzerland, part of northern Bavaria, Germany.
Muggendorf is a village in municipality Wiesenttal in Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany.
The Aufseß is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It passes through the village Aufseß, and flows into the Wiesent near Waischenfeld.
Wiesent is a river located in Bavaria, Germany. It is a right tributary of the river Regnitz. It is the main river of the Franconian Switzerland region, rising near the village Steinfeld. It flows through the towns Hollfeld, Muggendorf and Ebermannstadt, and joins the Regnitz in Forchheim.
Kainach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Wiesent in Hollfeld.
Wiesent is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a tributary of the Danube, that it enters through the oxbow Alte Donau between Wörth an der Donau and Niederachdorf.
Zeubach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Wiesent in Waischenfeld.
Leinleiter is a stream in the Franconian Switzerland, part of the Franconian Alb, Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Wiesent near Ebermannstadt.
Trubach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Wiesent near Pretzfeld.
Gößweinstein Castle, also called Schloss Gößweinstein, is a mediaeval hilltop castle in Gößweinstein in the county of Forchheim in the German state of Bavaria. It towers high above the market town and the River Wiesent and may have been the inspiration for Richard Wagner's grail castle in his opera, Parsifal. The castle is a Bavarian listed building, no. D-4-74-129-10.
The ruins of Streitburg Castle (German: Burgruine Streitburg or Streitberg Castle are the remains of a high mediaeval aristocratic castle above the village of Streitberg, in the market borough of Wiesenttal in the Upper Franconian county of Forchheim in the German state of Bavaria. They lie directly opposite the ruins of Neideck Castle, the symbol of Franconian Switzerland, on the other side of the valley.
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