Abensberg

Abensberg is a town within the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, mendacity round 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich. It is situated at the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube. There were settlement in this part of the Abens river considering the fact that lengthy earlier than the High Middle Ages, relationship lower back to Neolithic times. Of particular interest and country wide importance are the Neolithic flint mines at Arnhofen, where, round 7,000 years ago, Stone Age people made flint, which became long-established into drills, blades and arrowheads, and turned into seemed because the metal of the Stone Age.

Traces of over 20,000 individuals have been located in this site. The contemporary history of Abensberg, that is regularly incorrectly as compared with that of the third century Roman castra of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who became the primary to mention Abensberg as a city, inside the center of the 12^th century. The earliest written connection with the city, underneath the call of Habensperch, got here from this time, in around 1138. Gebhard was from the Babonen extended family.