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Ingolstadt is proud of the important role it has played in Bavarian
history:
as seat of ducal power, university town, state fortress and industrial
centre. And the witnesses to its past are to be seen throughout the Old
Town. The Celts lived here at the Manching oppidum and the Romans left their mark throughout the region. Archaeological findings even suggest that the Danube Valley and the slopes leading into the Jura hills were settled as early as the Stone Age. Around 15 B.C. the Roman legions under their commanders Drusus and Tiberius came across the Alps and subjected the lands stretching north of the mountains as far as the Danube and, in some places, beyond. The native Celtic population were either driven out or romanized. A civilian population followed, settling in what became the province of Raetia, which included the present Ingolstadt area, and developing a rich Roman culture which did not decline until the time of the Germanic migrations. Roman remains are numerous throughout the Ingolstadt area. Oberstimm was the site of a Roman citadel and the Limes, the northern boundary of the Roman Empire, is clearly discernible as it crosses the nearby Jura hills. Towards the end of the 4th century, Germanic invasions into Roman-governed territory increased, and the Romans had to give up their lands north of the Danube. However, as time went on they were no longer in a position to defend even this border, withdrawing back over the Alps in the middle of the 5th century. The former Roman empire was not exactly abandoned, but it is said to have been quite sparsely populated. In the 6th century, the Bajuwaren, the original Bavarian tribe, moved into the area north of the Alps as far as the Danube, establishing the tribal duchy of the Agilolfinger. Ingolstadt was one of their early Bavarian settlements. A deed of settlement from the year 806, in which Charlemagne decided the fate of Bavaria and the Nordgau region in the event of his death, expressly mentions the royal estate of "Ingoldesstat" lying on the border between these two areas. In 841 A.D. King Ludwig the German made a gift of the royal court with its two royal churches to the Benedictine Abbey of Niederaltaich. The oldest document remaining from the artistic culture of this period is a beautifully illustrated Carolingian version of the Gospels that originated from Ingolstadt and is now kept at Munich's university library. The earliest market settlement was no doubt situated in the south-western corner of the present Old Town, on the bank of the river Schutter. When the Niederaltaich Monastery came under the patronage of the Wittelsbachers, Ingolstadt fell into the possession of the Bavarian dukes, and soon afterwards (ca. 1250) it was granted town-status and the rights that this involved. It was under the Wittelsbachers that Ingolstadt first rose to prominence. The town – situated where the Munich to Eichstätt and Regensburg to Donauwörth roads met – was fortified, and the heart of the settlement acquired the square formation that was typical of the towns founded by the Wittelsbachers. The oldest of the town's churches (St. Moritz) was consecrated to St. Maurice, the patron saint of Niederaltaich, in 1234.
Actual travel packet from the Tourist board comes from the German News travel service here for free.
If the shadows become longer and breaks the darkness, rises Dr. Victor Frankenstein from its Gruft, upsets its far coat and loads to a walk by the dark past in Ingolstadt. Historical from the past, witch burns, darken associate and mysterious natures seams the way of Bavaria first and only city leaders of this type. Also the leader is only a shadow of the past. Only it knows the darkest corners of the old part of town, where some bad events course-carry have. In his doubtful company the visitor a journey start by the dark sections of history Ingolstadt. Man can be safe never, who or which waiting behind the next corner... The Murder & Mystery route takes place on Fridays , begins in each case at 22.00 o'clock and takes 70 minutes. Franconia Frankenstein cabinet Following the Murder & Mystery route exists the possibility for a free attendance " Frankenstein cabinet " in the hotel Daniel. In the laboratory of the doctors a placed behind operation scene, a great deal old medical equipment expects the visitor strange and informative approximately over Frankensteins life and working. Mary Shelley & Ingolstadt Frankensteins creature is today one of the most famous " monster shapes " of the literature and film history wrote. Ingolstadt is the place of birth of the creature. But the English authoress Mary Shelley ensured. It invented Franconia Frankenstein " 1818 ". In its novel Mary Shelley lets the young Victor Frankenstein from Geneva travel to the medicine study after Ingolstadt. Here it expires to the illusion to want to create artificial life - here it arouses its " creature " to the life. Mary Shelley selected Ingolstadt quite consciously for its Frankenstein and the birth of its monster. 1472 Ingolstadt seat of the first Bavarian national university had become. Apart from Prague and Vienna it was for a long time the most important university in the German-speaking countries. In 18. Century developed here its own " experimentation building " of the medical profession, to old persons received " today anatomy " - for seat of the German medicine-historical museum.
Day Trip including the following
services: More information comes from touristinfo@ingolstadt.de
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Frankenstein leads again by Ingolstadt
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