One of the greatest technical cultural monuments of the early Middle Ages: the Fossa Carolina (the Karlsgraben). Around the year 793, Charlemagne had a canal roughly 3000 m long excavated in order to be able to sail comfortably in the southeast of his empire. A water surface that is still 500 m long today and the subsequent earth walls testify to the first attempt to connect the Rhine, Main and Danube by a waterway. The place invites you to linger, beautiful display boards, seating groups and public toilets, almost everything available.

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BioMann

August 2, 2020

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The appropriate exhibition can be found not far from the Karlsgraben. The Karlsgraben exhibition in the "Hüttinger barn". Worth seeing.

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Peter Lustig

September 15, 2019

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It is always astonishing how land surveys and surveys were carried out with relatively modest resources in previous years, on the basis of which planning was carried out and buildings and water treatment plants were realized. There are certainly only a few who could implement such services without the use of GPS data.

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2. War Cemetery at Nagelberg – Villa Rustica Treuchtlingen loop from Graben

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3. Rohrach Meanders Biotope – Bubenheim Village loop from Treuchtlingen

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Location: Treuchtlingen, Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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Fossa Carolina (Karlsgraben)

Fossa Carolina (Charlemagne's Trench)

1. Altmühl view

2. War Cemetery at Nagelberg – Villa Rustica Treuchtlingen loop from Graben

3. Rohrach Meanders Biotope – Bubenheim Village loop from Treuchtlingen

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