Finkenherd is the neighbourhood most visitors end up photographing without knowing its name. It sits between the lower town and the base of the Schlossberg, where the streets narrow and the houses lean slightly toward each other overhead. The timber-frame buildings here are dense and largely unrestored in the picture-perfect-renovation sense, which is what makes them interesting.
The legendary connection to Henry I's kingship gives the area a slightly absurd gravitas — a muddy bird-trapping ground elevated to founding myth. There is a small monument to mark the spot. More practically, Finkenherd is on the natural route up to the Schlossberg, so you will walk through it whether or not you are looking for it.