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There is not a continuous spectacular city wall in Münchberg, as they are partly known from other cities of the Middle Ages. Narratives, representations and drawings with such a wall, which surrounds Münchberg, can be found, but these don’t match the reality in all details.

Indeed, there was a fortification around the city at that time. Along Ludwigstraße was the city center and laterally from that were additional buildings. This city core was mainly protected by the natural terrain, since behind the outer walls of the houses to the East and the West the slope was used.

From Hofer Straße one reached Klosterplatz through the Upper City Gate in Ludwigstraße. A simple path led eastward past the city in the area of present day Bismarckstraße. In order to save the toll for the paved Ludwigstraße, there was also the possibility of travel over the unattached lower graves westward past Münchberg.

From the direction of Sparneck, one came through the Kreuzberg Ravine to Münchberg. After crossing the Pulschnitz one reached the post station, which lay outside the city fortification. Kulmbacher Straße led to the Lower City Gate. Through this one reached Ludwigstraße over Torgasse. Above the lower city gate one finds the Protestant Parsonage with the deanery. The thick outer walls of this building served as the city wall oat the same time (photo above). This building has been preserved until today. Along Pfarrgasse the mighty city wall still extends as then. Presumably, there was a connecting part (see photo right), which closed the gap between the still existing city wall and the east side of the Luther School. A further extension to the North was the slope of the upper graves. The outer walls of the houses there served as a fortification to the Upper City Gate.

A model, which shows Münchberg in the mid 18th century, lets you see approximately how the town could have looked. The continuous wall with battlements and watchtowers along the city border probably did not exist in this form. The video should however be illustrative of the Münchberg core city at that time.