In the town of Miltenberg, Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany

 "To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing

What's around the riverbend...."
-- Just Around the Riverbend lyrics (from the Disney film, Pocahontas)
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(in Bavaria) The seat of a historic county in the old Electorate of Mainz, the town of Miltenberg, known as "The Pearl of the Main" (River), is found along a bend in the river by the eastern peaks of the Odenwald (a wooded upland region in Germany). Those slopes lend a sense of the spectacular to Miltenberg’s romantic alleyways and squares. Its half-timbered houses bear witness to Miltenberg’s historic wealth as a center of commerce on the Main. Some great figures have spent a bit of time in Miltenberg, including two Holy Roman Emperors and Napoleon. What’s amazing is that the Zum Riesen (inn) where they lodged is still in business today. (Miltenberg belonged to Electoral Mainz until 1803. After secularization and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss [a classic example of a compounded German word, meaning "Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation"], Miltenberg passed to the Principality of Leiningen, with which it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806. After having become part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1810, the town finally became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816.)