On this city walk, you will discover the historical heritage of the Vögte of Weida in Hof.
These include St. Lorenz parish church, St. Michael church, the former Franciscan monastery, and the former Poor Clares monastery.
When Otto VII died in 1248, the House of Andechs-Meranien became extinct in the male line, Heinrich VI of Weida (1238-1254) claimed the imperial advocacies over the Regnitz land as the heir of his grandmother Bertha of Vohburg, wife of Heinrich II “the Rich” (1193-1209). That was a coup! A visible expression of the Weida rule was the planned layout of the walled new town (before 1260).
The city and region prospered under the Vögte, a development that was not slowed by the takeover in 1318 by the burgraves of Nuremberg, to whom the Vögte had to swear an oath of fealty.
