Miltenberg

Miltenberg occupies a narrow strip between the Main and the wooded slopes of the Odenwald. It grew around a Mainz toll station protected by the Mildenburg, and received town status in 1237. Its staple right required passing merchants to offer goods locally, encouraging inns and warehouses. By the fourteenth century its walls enclosed an area that remained roughly the town's extent until the nineteenth century.

The Main route and the road between Nuremberg and Frankfurt helped make Miltenberg a significant member of the Mainz league of nine towns. During the Peasants' War of 1525, local official Friedrich Weygand supported the peasants and was executed. The town remained under Electoral Mainz until 1803; subsequent territorial changes placed it successively under Leiningen, Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt before it became Bavarian in 1816.