Ostheim

Ostheim Fortress Church is a fortress church located in the Lower Franconian town of Ostheim vor der Rhön in the Rhön-Grabfeld district. The church building of St. Michael there is located within a double ring wall built between 1400 and 1450 with a zwinger in between. The double ring wall has five defense towers and is reinforced with six bastions halfway along the wall. The Protestant church, built in the Renaissance style on the foundations of a predecessor church, dates from 1615 to 1619. Within the fortifications there are 66 vaulted cellars with 72 lofts, which served as protective dwellings in times of war and in which the local inhabitants kept their belongings safe in times of crisis. With a floor area of 75 by 75 meters, it is considered the largest and best-preserved fortress church in Germany. Some of the vaulted cellars are used by the local population as storage cellars.

Nordheim vor der Rhön is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany. It is located in the upper Streu valley, between Ostheim and Fladungen.

Willmars is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany.

Stockheim is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany. It is located in the Streu valley between Ostheim and Mellrichstadt.

Bastheim is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany. Wechterswinkel Abbey stands in the village of Wechterswinkel, part of Bastheim.

The Eiersberg is a hill in Bavaria, Germany. It is 349 metres high and located in the province of Lower Franconia, near Mittelstreu. On its slopes are the indications of human settlement from the early Ice Age.

Wechterswinkel Abbey (German: Kloster Wechterswinkel) was a Cistercian nunnery in the small village of Wechterswinkel, a part of Bastheim in the mountainous region of the Rhön in Bavaria, Germany, in the Bishopric of Würzburg.

The Hohe Schule, formerly also the Aalhauck, near Völkershausen in the Bavarian county of Rhön-Grabfeld is, at about 538 m above sea level (NHN), the second highest hill in the Eastern Rhön Foreland after the Wurmberg (547.7 m). The area includes ramparts and finds from the Hallstatt culture and the Latene Culture, section of the Landwehr, and the Rhine-Weser Watershed.

Fladungen is a town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 11 km northwest of Ostheim, 20 km west of Meiningen, and 33 km east of Fulda. It is the northernmost town in Bavaria, bordering Hesse to the northwest and Thuringia to the northeast. Fladungen lies at the southern edge of the Rhön Mountains, and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve begins a few kilometers outside of town. It is at the head of the river Streu, which flows southeast through it to join the Franconian Saale near Bad Neustadt. The region around the town is popular for hiking and cycling, especially in the summer and early autumn. The town is a service center for the surrounding agricultural region. There are also some small industries, including a cement factory and a biogas plant. The 2021 population was estimated at about 2,200.

Oberstreu is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany.

Unsleben is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany.

Mellrichstadt station is a railway station operated by the Deutsche Bahn in the Lower Franconian town of Mellrichstadt in Germany.