Berg, Upper Franconia

Bundesautobahn 9 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 9, short form Autobahn 9, abbreviated as BAB 9 or A 9) is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich via Leipzig and Nuremberg. It is the fifth longest autobahn spanning 529 km (328.71 mi).

Zottelbach is a small river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Saale near Issigau.

Issigau is a municipality in Upper Franconia in the district of Hof in Bavaria in Germany. In lies on the Issig River.

Selbitz is a town in the district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 12 km west of Hof.

Blankenberg is a village and a former municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the municipality Rosenthal am Rennsteig.

Naila station is a railway station in the municipality of Naila, located in the Hof district in Bavaria, Germany.

Joditz is a village in Upper Franconia, in the municipality of Köditz and the district of Hof. Joditz lies in the valley of the Saale, ten kilometers north-west of the town of Hof. The village has 345 inhabitants (as of January 2010) and contains a parish church. The area of the parish includes the hamlets Joditz, Lamitz, Saalenstein, Scharten, Stöckaten and Siebenhitz. At the centre of the village is St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. It was first mentioned in 1365 and has been the parish church since 1561. The present structure was built in 1704. The pulpit, altar, organ case and baptismal font (the last no longer extant) were by the Hof sculptor Johann Knoll. The altarpiece depicts the birth of Christ, and is flanked by statues of Moses and John the Baptist. The altar is surmounted by three cherubs with the arms of the former patron families, and the pulpit is decorated with figures of the four evangelists. The church was renovated in 2002/2003.

The Selbitz is a river of Bavaria and Thuringia, Germany. It is a left-bank tributary of the river Saale in the eastern Franconian Forest. It is a watercourse of tertiary importance. Its source lies about 650 metres (2,130 ft) above sea level from a pond northwest of the Helmbrechts quarter of Wüstenselbitz, flows around Helmbrechts at first in an easterly direction and then towards the north. As it continues it runs through the towns of Schauenstein, Selbitz and Naila, before flowing through the Höllental between Hölle and Blechschmidtenhammer cutting a channel into the dolorite rock up to 170 m (560 ft) deep. In the village of Hölle, a district of Naila on the left bank of the Selbitz, a 262-metre-deep (860 ft) mineral spring, the Höllensprudel, has been bored. From the mouth of the Thüringische Muschwitz at the exit of the Hölle Valley and at its own confluence with the Saale near Blankenstein the Selbitz forms the border between Bavaria and Thuringia for about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). During the Cold War division of Germany (1945–1990), the Selbitz was part of the inner German border, with fences and guard towers on the Thuringian side in the German Democratic Republic to prevent east-west traffic. The footbridge between the Bavarian hamlet of Untereichenstein and Blankenstein is also the end of the Thuringian Rennsteig, a historical border path. The river is 36.6 kilometres (22.7 mi) long and falls a total of 236 metres (774 ft) during its course. The name "Selbitz" probably comes from the Slavic word zelenovica and would therefore mean something like "green stream". At almost any point the level of the Selbitz could rise theoretically without causing any problems, because it is mostly surrounded by meadows and in the town of Naila flows through a natural, but reinforced, channel between the station and the bridge by the football pitch. This enables the river to grow to more than twice its width during times of thaw, storms or heavy rain. From 2 to 4 December 2007 this could be observed. The area through which the river runs is surrounded to the left and right by strips of grassland that are used as meadows for sheep-grazing during times of the year when there is no snow.

Rosenthal am Rennsteig is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Birkenhügel, Blankenberg, Blankenstein, Harra, Neundorf bei Lobenstein, Pottiga and Schlegel.

Blankenstein is a village and a former municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. On 1 January 2019 it became part of the new municipality Rosenthal am Rennsteig. Prior to 2019, Blankenstein had been the seat of the Saale-Rennsteig Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association), which was disbanded in the reorganisation.

Issigbach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It passes through Issigau, and flows into the Selbitz near Lichtenberg.

Blankenstein (Saale) station is a railway station in the municipality of Blankenstein, located in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district in Thuringia, Germany.