Hirschaid: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Tropfhaus Museum is located in the vicinity of Hirschaid. This specific museum connection particularly appeals to people who are interested in culture.

You can rent a holiday apartment in Hirschaid.

Culture and Surroundings

The Bamberger Land Farmers’ Museum, Villa Dessauer and the E.T.A. Hoffmann House are located in the surrounding area of Hirschaid. The Geisfelder Schloßberg, the northern Geisberg, the Retterner Kanzel and the Stockenberg are also located in the surrounding area.

Culinary Delights

Hirschaid has beer cellars, breweries and traditional inns. In the wider Regnitz Valley, Franconian carp dishes are served from September to April.

Landscape and Townscape

Hirschaid is situated in the Regnitz river landscape between the hills of Franconian Switzerland and the foothills of the Steigerwald.

Hirschaid has the Baroque parish church of St. Vitus, the Tropfhaus Museum, Sassanfahrt Castle as a cultural and educational centre, and the half-timbered village of Friesen.

Hirschaid hosts recurring spring and autumn markets, local parish festivals, a town hall festival and an Advent market.

Getting Around

Hirschaid has four circular cycling routes, three long-distance cycling routes, hiking opportunities around the Friesener Warte, a gliding airfield and a bicycle rental service. This suits a trip in which cycling and hiking play a specific role.

Hirschaid is connected via the BAB 73 and the B 505; roads lead towards Bamberg and Forchheim. Historically, the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal and the Ludwig South-North Railway ran through the town.

The route of the RegnitzRadweg from Hirschaid leads through meadows, woodland and the Reiche Ebrach area in the wider Regnitz Valley.

The valley route of the RegnitzRadweg begins in Hirschaid and continues through Hirschaid’s district of Sassanfahrt towards Bischberg and the mouth of the Regnitz.

To view other destinations, you can switch to Priesendorf, Altendorf, Zapfendorf, Strullendorf, Pettstadt, Ebrach, Scheßlitz or Frensdorf.

For the higher-level travel overview: Bamberg.