Schesslitz

Scheßlitz lies northeast of Bamberg in the Franconian hills. A fortified castle of Duke Otto of Andechs-Merania was recorded here in 1230, when Scheßlitz already had town rights. After the ducal family died out, the town passed through the hands of the counts of Truhendingen before the prince-bishop of Bamberg acquired it in 1390. Bishop Lamprecht strengthened its markets and founded a hospital in 1395.

During the German Peasants' War of 1525, rebels stormed and damaged the nearby Giechburg castle. After their defeat the prince-bishop punished them and imposed heavy costs on the town of Scheßlitz for rebuilding the castle. Swedish troops burned much of the lower town in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War. Bamberg's ecclesiastical rule ended with secularisation in 1803, when Scheßlitz passed to Bavaria.