You can rent a holiday apartment in Knau. Knau Manor is an officially referenced cultural site in Knau. For those interested in culture, this identifies a specific point of interest in the town.
Geographical Location
Knau is a district of Neustadt an der Orla in the Saale-Orla district of Thuringia. The town is located at approximately 450 meters above sea level.
Knau offers rural accommodation settings associated with a historic water mill and a former forester's house.
Culture
In the wider regional area around Knau are Ebersdorf Palace, the New Palace of Lobenstein, the Old Palace of Lobenstein, and Leuchtenburg.
The surrounding area of Knau also includes the St. Jodocus parish church in Rödersdorf, Hohe Tanne, and Mühlberg.
Nature
Amtsberg is located in the immediate area around Knau. The manor park in Knau is described as being of ornithological value.
Knau is classified within the wider area of Upper Saale Land and the Saale Reservoirs. The area around Knau is described as a landscape with numerous ponds between forests, meadows, and fields.
According to the description, an agricultural business in Knau includes a butcher's shop and a bakery.
The local surroundings of Knau are quiet and rural; visitors can experience nature there.
Summers in Knau are generally characterized as pleasant and partly cloudy; winters are described as cold, snowy, mostly cloudy, and windy.
The history of Knau includes earlier ties to the territories of the House of Wettin, as well as later administrative changes under Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prussia, and Thuringia.
Knau is described as being located in the Dreba Valley in the Land of a Thousand Ponds, the „Land of a Thousand Ponds“. In the broader tourist context of Knau, the Land of a Thousand Ponds encompasses the ponds around the Plothen and Dreba areas.
