Eschenbach

Eschenbach lies in the wooded uplands of the Upper Palatinate. It was mentioned as a market around 1150 and later came under the Wittelsbach dynasty. From 1353 to 1400 the town belonged to the lands known as New Bohemia; during this period Emperor Charles IV granted it town rights in 1358. Eschenbach passed to Palatine rule in the fifteenth century and later to the Electorate of Bavaria, retaining a town court with its own rights of administration.