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The Rafting Museum Unterrodach is a unique special museum which shows the most significant
aspects of the rafting trade and which has comprehensive documentary archives at
its disposal.
Rafting was the most important source of income in the region and it has altered
not only the landscape, but it has also left its mark on the people, the phenotype
of the villages and their social structure. Unterrodach is a typical rafting village
with outstanding monuments of the rafting trade; in particular there are numerous
splendid raft manor houses.
Since the Middle Ages rafters from the Frankenwald have supplied the Main as well
as the Rhine region with timber. Thus the station of Amsterdam, for example, is
based on driven piles from the Frankenwald.