The city of Amorbach is located in the northeastern part of the Odenwald in Bavaria, Germany. In Amorbach there is a so-called 'tithe barn', built in 1488, which has played a central role in the city for more than 500 years. A tithe barn is the building in which during the Middle Ages the rents and tithes of tenant farmers and peasants to a castle lord or a monastery were stored. Many farmers were obliged to pay tithes, often a rent in kind, such as one-tenth of the harvest, for instance a predetermined number of sheafs. So in this barn tithes in the form of products for the local prince were stored. After an extensive renovation in the 1960s, the building became a cinema and today it is a cabaret theat