Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is a town of Germany, in Bavaria, located at the edge of the the Danube.

With nearly 121.801 inhabitants (at December 31st 2005), it is the sixth more important town of Bavaria.

The general headquarters of the Car manufacturer Audi are in Ingolstadt.

Ingolstadt is also famous for its extremely which was used during the First World War of prison for the officers known as " remuants". Besides it counted among its prisoners the future generals De Gaulle and Catroux, and the future marshal Toukhatchevski.

History

One found at the time of excavations a cemetery of the first Bronze Age gone back to approximately 1800 av. J. Chr.: the village which was in the vicinity is the first trace of dwelling known at this place. Towards 1000 av. J. Chr. and during the 450 years which follow, one finds in the district of Zuchering the traces of the habitat of the Civilization of the fields of ballot boxes, undoubtedly widest of Europe known to date. The arrival of the Celts in the area can be gone back to 450 av. J. Chr. with the vestiges of Manching. The Celts were in their turn driven out by the German ones towards 100 av. J. Chr..

The first written mention of Ingolstadt is in a Capitulaire of Charlemagne dated from the February 6th 806, with the C-W communication Ingoldestat , the states of Ingold . The city obtains a Charte towards 1250 and shortly after the right of coinage. It is capital ducal during three years under the reign of Louis IV of Bavaria, then again of 1392 with 1447 under the reigns of Etienne the Pacific and Louis Bearded the. Isabeau, the girl of Etienne, marries the king of France Charles Fol. It is in Ingolstadt, fallen with died of the duke Louis in Wittelsbach de Landshut, which is founded, in 1472, the first university of Bavaria. This one will be transferred to Landshut in 1800 then in Munich in 1826 (current the Université Louis-and-Maximilien).

It is as in this city as is promulgated on April 23rd 1516 by Guillaume IV of Bavaria the decree of purity on the beer, called into question a few years ago within the framework of the European regulation. This decree prescribes that the beer should be brewed only with water, Malt and Houblon.

Ingolstadt becomes place-strong in 1537, which was worth at the city the nickname of “bastion”; still nowadays, several inhabitants of Ingolstädt like to call themselves “bastionnés”.

The city is besieged in 1632, during the Guerre Thirty Year old, by Gustave-Adolphe of Sweden. The king of Sweden had his horse killed under him, and one can see this horse with the museum of the city. The “dappled one of Sweden” ( Schweden-Schimmel ) account among the oldest preparations taxidermic S of Europe. The chief of the Catholic League, Jean Tserclaes, Count de Tilly, fell on April 30th under the walls from the city, of the continuations of a wound received at the time of the attack on Rain-amndts-Lech. Mary Shelley will make of its character Victor Frankenstein a student and a scientist of Ingolstadt of the years 1700: it is perhaps in this city that it designed this character (the novel appeared in 1818). A night procession takes place each year to commemorate this famous student.

Adam Weishaupt founded there the order of the Illuminati of Bavaria on May 1st 1776.

The fortifications are destroyed in 1800 by the French, but they will be rebuilt between 1828 and 1848. Ingolstadt remains a fortress until in the Entre-deux wars, until Hitler withdraws to him this statute.

Ingolstadt will be several times the target of the bombardments combined in 1945. The southern districts and is as well as the district of the station were touched: in addition to the houses, the theater, the market with salt, the church St Antoine the administrative buildings as all the place of the town hall were destroyed. But the most regrettable loss is that of the church baroque of the Augustins, work of Johann Michael Fischer. 100 people who had sheltered there there found death. The city becomes the American general headquarter at the time of the allied occupation.

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External bonds

Ingolstadt official Web site of the city
Presentation of Ingolstadt on the site of Fatty

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