Ingolstadt, Urban municipality in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Description
Ingolstadt is a city in Upper Bavaria that spreads along both sides of the Danube, with its old quarter enclosed by fortification walls and dotted with churches and townhouses from the Gothic period. The river divides the urban area into two halves, while parks line the waterfront and broad streets connect the historic core to newer neighborhoods.
History
The settlement was founded in the eighth century and grew into a trading post at a Danube crossing during the Middle Ages. In 1472 Bavaria opened its first university here, which attracted scholars and students from across Europe until it moved to another city in 1800 and eventually relocated to Munich.
Culture
The name comes from the Ingbach stream, a watercourse flowing into the Danube that once served as a river access point. Today locals gather at outdoor markets and festivals on the main squares, while the townscape reflects the mercantile tradition through guild houses and painted facades from centuries past.
Practical
The Audi Forum provides access to factory tours showing the car production process, alongside exhibits on automotive engineering and design. In the center you can shop in modern passages and smaller stores along the pedestrian streets, which stay open from morning until evening.
Did you know?
Mary Shelley chose the city as the setting for her novel Frankenstein, where the main character studies at the local university and carries out his experiments. This literary connection brought worldwide recognition to the place, even though Shelley herself never visited and her descriptions remained entirely fictional.
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Ingolstadt Fortress
839 m
Bavarian Army Museum
497 m
Museum mobile
2.3 km
Keltenmuseum Manching
7.5 km
Liebfrauenmünster
360 m
Sankt Maria de Victoria
486 m
Jagdschloss Grünau
12.2 km
New Castle
447 m
Reduit Tilly
490 m
Klenzepark
619 m
Stadttheater Ingolstadt
284 m
Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum
425 m
Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium
400 m
Christoph 32
3.9 km
Reuchlin-Gymnasium
576 mKocatepe-Moschee
1.7 km
Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt
223 m
Hohe Schule
279 m
Franziskanerkirche
286 m
Duke's Chest Castle
192 m
Jesuit College of Ingolstadt
402 m
Güterverkehrszentrum Ingolstadt
2.9 km
Cross Gate
540 m
Bavarian Police Museum
746 m
Donautherme
984 m
Pfarrkirche Sankt Moritz, Ingolstadt
70 m
Triva Redoubt
755 mOberstimm auxiliary fort
6.1 km
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