Aschach

Aschach stands on the Franconian Saale, where a village grew around a church and a neighbouring settlement around a castle. The counts of Henneberg built the castle in the twelfth century. A document of 1244 records Otto of Botenlauben's gift of a mill on the Saale to Frauenroth Abbey, providing the earliest certain evidence of the settlement. By the fourteenth century Aschach was also the seat of an administrative district and a court.

During the Peasants' War of 1525, rebels occupied and burned the castle, carrying its official and other nobles away to Schweinfurt. After the rising was crushed, hundreds of the district's subjects were fined and peasants were made to help rebuild. Margrave Albert Alcibiades destroyed the castle again in 1553, prompting a complete reconstruction. In the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops came to Aschach in 1631 and the district was burdened with soldiers and payments.