Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not taken into consideration a part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the executive seat. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric of Mainz for extra than 800 years. The town is located at the westernmost border of Lower Franconia and separated from the valuable and eastern a part of the Regierungsbezirk with the aid of the Spessart hills, whereas it opens towards the Rhine Main simple in the west and North West. Therefore, the population talk neither Bavarian nor East Franconia but as an alternative a nearby model of Rhine Franconia.

The call Aschaffenburg at first supposed citadel at the ash tree river deriving from the river Aschaff that runs through elements of the town. The earliest remains of settlements within the place of Aschaffenburg date from the Stone Age. Aschaffenburg changed into initially a agreement of the Alamanni. Roman legions had been stationed here. In c. 700 AD, the Ravenna Cosmography names settlements in area Uburzis and Ascapha.