Eberbach

I visited this place more or less mainly because of the character “Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach” from Aoike Yasuko’s manga “From Eroica With Love”. He wasn’t named after this place, actually the mangaka heard about the town Eberbach after giving her character that name :D But when she learned about that town in Southern Germany, she went there to visit the place and some images in the manga resemble that town. She also used the town crest as Klaus’s family crest. lol
After that manga became such a success in Japan in the late 70s and 80s many Japanese women visited that small town Eberbach and the town inhabitants were totally surprised and confused by that, because this town has nothing other small old Germans towns don’t have, too (for example half-timbered houses and a castle ruin). So they asked the Japanese tourists what this was all about and the Japanese women told them: “But, this is the town the Major is from!” xD
Because Aoike Yasuko helped to boost the tourism in Eberbach, she was announced honorary citizen of Eberbach and Eberbach used the manga character Major von dem Eberbach in their town brochures (of course only the Japanese, since the manga wasn’t translated into any other languages by that time).

And now it’s the English speaking Eroica fans from all over the world who want to visit this small town in Sothern Germany. Beware! lol ;)