Veitshöchheim

Rococo garden near the "Schloss" (château)

Veitshöchheim is a town of 9,500 people (2020) in Lower Franconia, Germany. Its main claim to fame and indeed the first thing many people think of when hearing the name is the fact that Fastnacht in Franken, a humorous TV program during carnival, is shot here.

Understand

Schloss

Street scene in Veitshöchheim

Gasthof Blaue Traube, 18th century

Church of Sankt Veit, 17th century

Veitshöchheim is a very beautiful small town with a château (Schloss) and a Rococo garden. The town itself has a very well preserved, picturesque look. The edges of town have a semi-rural look.

An approximate pronunciation of Veitshöchheim for English speakers is: fights-HURKH-highm.

Get in

By train

• 1 Veitshöchheim station. Veitshöchheim's railway station lies on the Main-Spessart railway line from the Würzburg main railway station to Aschaffenburg und Hanau via Karlstadt.  

By car

Veitshöchheim lies directly on route B 27 from Würzburg to Fulda. There are driving restrictions in the centre of town. There is free parking by the river bank in front of the Mainfrankenhalle.

By boat

If you are based in Würzburg, take a round-trip boat trip on the Main river to Veitshöchheim. The tour boat runs several times daily from April to mid-October, a one-way trip lasting about 40 minutes. A regular one way ticket is €9 a round trip will set you back €12. Reduced rates for kids.

Get around

The best way to see the town is on foot.

See

There are various picturesque streets within the town itself.

• 1 Veitshöchheim Schloss (château). The former summer residence of the prince bishop of Würzburg.  
• Rococo garden. 
• 2 Pfarrkirche St. Vitus. A church built in 1690/91.  
• Railway station. Built in 1850. 
• Tower (near the station). A quaint old tower guarding a canal supplying water to the schloss. 
• 3 Jüdisches Kulturmuseum Veitshöchheim. A museum dedicated to the Jewish history of this and other rural communities in Franconia. (updated Feb 2019)

Eat

Meefischli

• 1 Fischerbärbel Restaurant & Café, Mainlände 5, ☏ +49 931 91251, info@fischerbaerbel.com. Oct - Apr: Tu-Su 12:00 - 21:00, Monday is rest day; May - Sep: daily 11:00 - 22:00 (closed in case of rain Monday). Large selection of fish from local waters. Known beyond the borders of Franconia for Meefischli with homemade potato salad and apple remoulade. 
• 2 Cafe Restaurant Sonnenschein, Mainlände 6, ☏ +49 931 9911661, fax: +49 931 30174004, cafe-rest.sonnenschein@t-online.de. Daily 10:30 - 23:00 (hot meals until 22:00); Nov - mid-Mar: M Tu are rest days, W-Su 11:00 - 22:00 (hot meals until 21:00). 
• Ratskeller Veitshöchheim (in the former kitchen building of the Schloss; Biergarten, Restaurant, Hotel), Erwin Vornberger Platz, ☏ +49 931-98094-0. 
• Wiener Botschaft (Austrian specialties), Herrnstraße 19, ☏ +49 931-92117, info@wienerbotschaft.de. 

Sleep

• Hotel & Wirtshaus Spundloch, Kirchstraße 19, ☏ +49 931-90084-0, fax: +49 931 - 90084-20, info@spundloch.com. midrange. 
• Hotel am Main, Untere Maingasse 35, ☏ +49 931-98040, fax: +49 931 - 9804121, info@hotel-am-main.de. midrange. 
• Hotel-Café Müller, Thüngersheimerstr. 8, ☏ +49 931-980600, fax: +49 931-9806042, hotel-cafe-mueller@t-online.de. midrange. 

Go next

Margetshöchheim

Margetshöchheim is a pleasant town across the river from Veitshöchheim. There is a pedestrian bridge over the river Main between Veitshöchheim (north side of town) and Margetshöchheim.