Ostheim

Ostheim vor der Rhon is a town in Northern Bavaria within the district of Rhon-Grabfeld in Franconia. Though politically part of Bavaria seeing that 1947, it become historically a part of Thuringia, and remains religiously, architecturally, and to a degree culturally awesome from its on the spot environment. Ostheim become first stated in 804. During the Reformation, Ostheim have become Protestant. However, within the 1580s and 1590s, a effective Counter-Reformation attempt led through Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, the Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg, reconverted maximum of the Streutal again to Catholicism.

Ostheim and a few villages close by have become Protestant islands in a solidly Catholic region. Ostheim turned into sacked via Imperial troops in 1634 during the Thirty Years War, but survived and retained its special person. From the 17th century till 1920 the city changed into an exclave of Protestant Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, first in Catholic Franconia and then in Bavaria after Franconia got here below the Bavarian crown. After the First World War, it became an exclave of Thuringia in Bavaria from 1920 until 1947.