14 13 A TOWN FULLOFHISTORY, 14 13 15 16 15 16 TRADITIONS &CULTURE ded tours canalsobebooked. individual gui- Here located. is Office tion Einhardhaus in which the Tourist Informa- each Saturday at 12.30 p.m., starting at the map ofthetown. Guidedtoursareonoffer in Seligenstadt,markedwitha “P”onthe facilities parking ample find will Visitors tant Church). visit the“Evangelische Kirche” (Protes- the MoatedCastleyou shouldnotfailto architecture. While you areontheway to compensated by the charme of its Baroque accessible. However, thevisitorwillbe worth avisitalthoughtheinteriorisnot country housecompletedin1708iswell bots, isvery much recommended. This the summerresidenceofformerab- to the“Wasserburg” (MoatedCastle), A leisurely20-minutewalk alongtheriver restored toanexemplarystandard. many of these are half-timbered houses walls 177listedbuildingscanbeadmired, gems mentionedbefore. Within thetown discovered inSeligenstadtapartfromthose town.There is,ofcourse,much moretobe have lefttheirmarkonthispartofthe settled hereduringthe Thirty Years’ War, of minutes’ walk to pel). Retracing your stepsitisonlyacouple Wendelinuskapelle (Wendelinus Cha - the find will you Grabenstrasse, the from Close totheOldHouse,about300yards with theirFrench way oflifewho were and peaceful atmosphere.Exiled Walloons of theOld Town offersaparticularlycosy (Little France) .This quarterintheNorthwest “Klaa-Frankreich”

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Steinheimer Str. 47 DISCOVER SELIGENSTADT PKW-PARKPLATZ P Maßstab: 6mm-50m 3 WC Radwanderweg nach Parkdeck Altstadt Frankfurt und Aschaffenburg 1 Einhard Basilica Jahnstraße 8 W O Bayern 4 Grabenstraße 37 ParkplatzParking Vereinsheim Vereinsheim Pfortengasse Steinheimer SteinheimerStraße Str. 47 N 25 First Civic Schoolhouse PKW-PARKPLATZ Steinheimer Straße 47 Car Parking RosengasseP 6 S 14 36 Former Benedictine Abbey Radwanderweg nach ParkdeckParking Altstadt Altstadt WC Frankfurt und Aschaffenburg 8 Cycle Path to W O Bayern 4 Romanesque Palatinate GrabenstraßeGrabenstraße 37 SchafgasseFrankfurt and Aschaffenburg 7 Pfortengasse Steinheimer Straße 58 Wall Tower „Stumpfaule“ Rosengasse 6 Große Fischergasse Wallstraße Mohrmühlgasse S 14 6 Wall Tower „Mulaul“ ST.MARIEN Grabenstraße HospitalgasseGerbergasse 9 Schafgasse 4 Mainfähre Main 7 Gun Powder Tower Steinweg 12 10 Große Salzgasse EHEMALIGE 8 Steinheim Gate Tower 9 Große Fischergasse Wallstraße SYNAGOGE Mohrmühlgasse Römerstraße 11 Dammstraße Abt-Peter-Straße Mauergasse Marktplatz10 Parkdeck Kloster ST.MARIEN Kapellenstraße Grabenstraße RIESEN HospitalgasseGerbergasse 9 Romanesque Stone House WC WC Aschaffenburger Str.58 12 4 Mainfähre Main Steinweg 12 Main Ferry 10 Town Hall Große Salzgasse 13 Parkplatz Feuerwehr Palatiumstraße 2 Emma-Straße EHEMALIGEFormer 11 9 Am Bahndamm 11 (Charging station for pedelecs) Frankfurter StraßeSYNAGOGESynagogue 33 Römerstraße 14 Dammstraße Abt-Peter-Straße Mauergasse Marktplatz10 Freihofplatz Große Maingasse Kapellenstraße RIESEN 1 ParkdeckParking Kloster Kloster 15 Kiesstraße Wolfstraße WC WC 7 12 Einhard House – Tourist-Info Office Guide FAHRRAD- WC AschaffenburgerAschaffenburger Straße Str.58 58 15 PARKPLATZ 13 Old House – Gallery Arts Forum Stadtgraben Palatiumstraße 2 Friedhof 16 Emma-Straße ParkplatzParking Feuerwehr Feuerwehr 5 11 Am Bahndamm Babenhäuser Straße Bahnhofstraße 13 Frankfurter Straße 33 Einhard-Straße 3 14 Wendelinus Chapel WCFrankfurter Straße 33 Freihofplatz Große Maingasse P 15 Wolfstraße 1 Dr.-Otto-Müller-Straße Kiesstraße 7 WC 15 „Little France“ Frankfurter Straße FAHRRAD-Bicycle WC PARKPLATZParking Kellereigasse TAXI MOTORRAD- Stadtgraben CemeteryFriedhof BUS- 16 The Abbot’s Summer Residence Mauergasse AschaffenburgerPfarrgasse Straße 16 KURZPARKPLATZ Eisenbahnstraße PARKPLATZ Babenhäuser Straße Bahnhofstraße5 Vautheigasse 13 Einhard-Straße 3

Kaiser-Karl-Straße WC P (20 minutes‘ walk) PeterstraßeDr.-Otto-Müller-Straße Zellhäuser Straße WC Frankfurter StraßeWolfstraße Protestant Church Kellereigasse

Giselastraße Short Bus TAXI MOTORRAD- Jakobstraße BUS- Mauergasse AschaffenburgerPfarrgasse Straße 16 KURZPARKPLATZParking Eisenbahnstraße MOTORRAD- PARKPLATZ PARKPLATZ Bahnhofstraße Vautheigasse Stadion/Busparkplatz Kaiser-Karl-Straße Motorcycle Peterstraße Parking Am Riegelsbach WohnmobilstellplatzZellhäuser Straße Wolfstraße Franz-Böres-Straße Am Schwimmbad 5

Giselastraße Jakobstraße Bahnhof MOTORRAD-Motorcycle PARKPLATZParking Bahnhofstraße ParkingStadion/Busparkplatz Bus and Camper Am Riegelsbach Stadium/SportsWohnmobilstellplatz grounds Franz-Böres-Straße Am Schwimmbad 5 Am Schwimmbad 5 DORTMUND FULDA Bahnhof KASSEL A66

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DARMSTADT MICHELSTADT >A living history< living >A Seligenstadt A WARM WELCOME TO Seligenstadt Seligenstadt Seligenstadt Seligenstadt Geschichte(n) hautnaherleben on Main Geschichte(n) hautnaherleben 1200 years of fascinating history ranging from Charlemagne and The Benedictine Abbey always remained the central point of the This part of the defences located along the river is the oldest re- 9 Emperor Frederick I., called Barbarossa, to the richly flourishing expanding settlement which was granted the freedom of a city in mainder of the city’s fortifications. monastic culture in the late Middle Ages and the Thirty Years’ War 1175. Whilst there is nothing left of Einhard’s early cloister buil- The original structure consisted of four gate towers and eight ram- 8 up to the elegant classicism of the early 19th century right into dings the abbey church has weathered more than a thousand ye- part towers. Only the “Stumpfaule” in Bahnhofstrasse, two fur- today’s Seligenstadt, a vibrant place to be at the beginning of the ars; although, various different architectural periods have left their ther ramparts on the river, the “Pulvertürme” (Gun powder tow- 10 21st century. Join us in an excursion into the past which will lead traces the church remains nearly undamaged. ers) and the Steinheimer gate tower dating from 1603 still to inspiring encounters with learned clergymen, upright craftsmen, The visitor enters the Carolingian Basilica – a cultural monu- exist. wealthy merchants, poor fishermen, Roman legionaries, shooting ment of European significance - through the neo-Romanesque portal The historical town centre and the “Romanische Haus” (Roman- and hunting mad sovereigns and art loving abbots. arches1 under the western towers added on in the 19th century. An esque House) is best accessed via Steinheimer Strasse and Ger- Seligenstadt’s history begins with Einhard, the close confidant of early Gothic choir with a mighty lantern tower was added to the bergasse. This ancient stone house was supposedly built on the Charlemagne, whose biographer he later became. In 815 the mul- plain but impressive nave during the 13th century. Even today the occasion of a court-day held by Frederick I. Barbarossa in the year ti-talented politician, artist and scholar was given as a gift for his relics of the martyrs Petrus and Marcellinus are kept in a beautiful 1187. It was not until 1978 when dedicated citizens rescued the good services the small Frankonian settlement “Obermulinheim” silver shrine on the high altar. rundown building; and in 1987, subsequently, the Hessian Award on the river Main by Charlemagne. During the previous 800 years The way from the basilica along the cloister walls leads to for the Preservation of Historic Monuments was given to Seligen- this settlement had developed around the remainders of a Roman the main portal of the former Benedictine Abbey. Here, at the stadt.

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5 11 ENJOY THE WALKS THROUGH OUR CHARMING LITTLE TOWN 7 fortification. Around 830 Einhard founded a Benedictine monas- ‘Freihof’ the point of intersection between the ecclesiastical and 12 tery and had an imposing pilgrimage church erected on the site the secular worlds, in 1703 Seligenstadt’s citizens erected their of the tomb of the early Christian martyrs Petrus and Marcellinus first public school house , an impressive half-timbered building. whose relics he had brought from Rome into the Frankonian empire. The cloister area stretching behind the abbey gates with its Soon enough pilgrims discovered the new place of worship, and, wonderful gardens, farm buildings and store cellars, its fountains henceforth, Einhard’s village was called “Saligunstat” (which is old and sculptures, monks’ cells and state-rooms is a good example of German and means “Site of the Blessed”), a place which promised Baroque architecture. Here monastic culture of the past comes to happiness and well-being. life again. Crossing the courtyard of the classical Town-Hall (1823) you Of course, there is another version to the story how Seligenstadt re- On the banks of the river Main along the city walls the remainders will reach the market square with its fine examples of richly orna- ceived its name. Legend has it that Charlemagne did not approve of the “Palatium” can be found, the hunting palace of Frederick mented half-timbered houses. However, even more ancient houses of the relationship between his daughter Imma and Einhard which I., the Hohenstaufen emperor, which was built in 1187/88. After are to be discovered nearby such as the “Einhardhaus” dating led to the flight of the loving couple from the imperial court of the decline of the Hohenstaufen family the so-called “Rote Schloß” from 1596, Seligenstadt’s best known half-timbered building. A Aix-la-Chapelle to the river Main. Charlemagne frantically searched (Red Castle) was misused as a quarry. Only the Eastern wing of further example of highly developed craftsmanship worth seeing is for his daughter, and when he finally discovered her he allegedly ex- the building remained intact thanks to its integration into the city the “Alte Haus” (Old House) dating from 1327. claimed: ‘ Blessed be the place where I found my daughter again!’ walls.