Buttenheim

Buttenheim is a market city inside the Upper Franconia district of Bamberg and lies in the Regnitz Valley among Bamberg and Nuremberg, Germany. Buttenheim is Levi Strauss’s birthplace: the future inventor of blue jeans emigrated from Germany to America in 1847. Buttenheim Botho’s Home had its first documentary point out in 1017. It lies on the north south Regnitz Valley delivery axis and turned into in all likelihood based approximately 550. During a river journey from Forchheim to Wurzburg in 793, Charlemagne ordered churches to be built inside the Regnitz area to convert the Slavs.

It is believed that certainly one of Charlemagne’s 14 lavic Churches which have been built approximately 800 inside the Radenzgau a county more or less corresponding to nowadays Upper Franconia stood in Buttenheim. Until the mid-17^th century, Buttenheim became the maximum crucial location between Bamberg and Forchheim. Through Buttenheim ran the antique trade street from Regensburg to Bamberg or Hallstadt and directly to Magdeburg. Furthermore, the Saxon Road, any other vintage connection, this one east-west, ran from the Steigerwald wooded area by using way of Hirschaid to Franconia Switzerland.