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            Main street in the town of Beilngries with its stepped gable houses and the so-called “House of the guest” in the background, Bavaria, Germany 

Some background information:

The town of Beilngries is situated in the valley of the river Altmuehl. It has almost 10,000 residents and is located in the administrative district of Eichstaett in the very north of Upper Bavaria, about 50 km (31 miles) west of the city of Regensburg and 60 km (37 miles) southeast of the city of Nuremberg.

In 1007, Beilngries was first mentioned in a document. In 1053, the settlement that already belonged to the bishopric of Eichstaett received market rights and customs legislation on behalf of bishop and later pope Victor II.  Around 1300, the church of St Walpurga was completed. Moated town walls were built in the late Middle Ages, which prevented the town from being destroyed in the German Peasants' War. 

In the course of the Eichstaett witch trials, which lasted from 1532 to 1723, two alleged witches were sentenced to death and executed in the town in 1623 resp. 1625. In 1633, during the Thirty Years’ War, Beilngries avoided being destroyed by surrendering without a fight to the Protestant Swedish troops of Bernard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, who had offered his services as a commander to Sweden in 1630.

In 1803, after the last prince-bishop of Eichstaett had abdicated in 1802, Beilngries passed on to Archduke Ferdinand III of Salzburg, who received the centrepiece of the prince-bishopric of Eichstaett in order to compensate his loss of Tuscany. But only two years later, Beilngries was garrisoned by Bavarian troops. Under Bavarian administration the town became the seat of an administrative court. Between 1835 and 1846, the Ludwig Canal was built, which linked the Danube river with the Main river. The canal led through Beilngries and brought a trade expansion along, mainly due to timber, cattle and grain trade. 

In 1939, the administrative district of Beilngries was founded.  In 1950, the Ludwig Canal was closed down, but in 1992, the new Rhine-Main-Danube Canal was completed, which connects the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. It runs past Beilngries and has some relevance to the town’s economic growth. However its basis are medium-sized companies and Beilngries’ official recognition as a climatic health resort in the heart of the Altmuehl Valley Nature Park.

The Altmuehl Valley Nature Park (in German: "Naturpark Altmuehltal") is a nature park, 2,962 square kilometres in area. The area of the park is almost coextensive with that of the natural region major unit of the Southern Franconian Jura. It lies immediately north of the city of Ingolstadt on the River Danube and is divided into a southern and northern Altmuehl Valley. 

The nature park was established in 1969 in the town of Pappenheim by a society formed for the purpose. It is the fourth largest nature park in Germany after the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park, the Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park and the Southern Black Forest Nature Park.

Taken in: Germany / Bavaria / Landkreis Eichstätt / Beilngries (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2019

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