Bad Orb Travel Guide

 Nemorino Says:  The twenty-fourth summer production of the Opera Academy in Bad Orb was Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).Don Giovanni was the eighteenth of Mozart's twenty-one operas, composed in 1787 when he was thirty-one years old, four years before his death.The... 

 Nemorino Says:  The twenty-second summer production of the Opera Academy in Bad Orb was of Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).The title means roughly "That's what they (feminine) all do." One of the characters, the "old philosopher" Don Alfonso, sets out to prove that all... 

 Nemorino Says:  The twenty-third summer production of the Opera Academy in Bad Orb was the very popular operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899).Carlos Krause not only did the stage direction, but also played the funny speaking role of Frosch, the prison warden,... 

 Nemorino Says:  This wooden framework is 155 meters long and was first built in 1806 for the purpose of extracting salt from the salty spring water of Bad Orb. Inside the framework, under the roof, there are two huge walls of tightly packed Black Thorn branches. Space is left for people to... 

 Nemorino Says:  The Opera Academy in Bad Orb is intended as a showcase for young singers at the beginning of their careers. Every year fifty to sixty young singers come to auditions, and those who are chosen get the opportunity to rehearse and perform an opera in Bad Orb under the direction... 

 Nemorino Says:  The twenty-first production of the Bad Orb Opera Academy was Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848).This comic opera is about a wealthy elderly bachelor who marries a beautiful young woman, or thinks he does, but soon regrets it and is glad to be rid of her.The Bad... 

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 Nemorino Says:  Bad Orb is easy to reach by bicycle from Frankfurt. Just take the regional cycling route R3, which follows the banks of the Main River to and through Frankfurt and then goes up the Kinzig Valley starting in Hanau. From the R3 there is a five kilometer cycling route going off... 

 Nemorino Says:  All the regional trains have bicycle compartments so you can take your bicycle with you to wherever you want to start cycling from.In the area served by the Rhine-Main Transit Authority "RMV" it does not cost extra to take your bike along, but in other parts of Germany you... 

 Nemorino Says:  Landscape along the bicycle route in the Jossa Valley.This was only the second time I have cycled through here. In an earlier phase of my life I used to drive through here every week, but that was a long time ago. Update: Just had another bicycle trip through here in August... 

 Nemorino Says:  The town of Reineck, with a castle and historic Old Town, is one of the last towns near the bottom of the Sinn Valley, before the Sinn flows into the Main at Gemünden.For the continuation of this bicycle trip, see the Main River Tour on my Germany page. 

 Nemorino Says:  Mernes is a village in the Jossa Valley, between Burgjoss and Marjoss. It turns out that there is a description of Mernes and the Jossgrund area in an English-language geneological website by a man named Robert Desch who lives in Hiawatha, Iowa. Mr. Desch writes: "Ferdinand... 

 Nemorino Says:  In all these valleys there are well-marked bicycle routes with little or no automobile traffic, often following Forest Service access roads such as this one.The bicycle routes are well signposted, as a general rule, but you still have to have a good cycling map so you don't... 

 Nemorino Says:  There are thousands of parking lots like this all over the woods in Germany, with short and easy hiking trails that go around in a circle and come back to the parking lot.For a longer hike from here, there is a suggested route on the following website in German: 

 Nemorino Says:  Anyone who grew up and went to school in Frankfurt has probably been to the Wegscheide, which is a camp for Frankfurt school classes up on a pass in the Spessart hills, not quite four kilometers to the east of Bad Orb.The name Wegscheide means parting of the ways, not only... 

 Nemorino Says:  Down in the next valley to the east of Bad Orb and the Wegscheide is the town of Burgjoss.This building is a water castle, so called because there was once a moat around it for defense. According to a plaque at the entrance, the oldest parts of the walls date from the 9th... 

 Nemorino Says:  Near the Wegscheide is a typical forest parking lot with a sign urging motorists to get out of their cars and go for a walk in the woods.