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Seligenstadt Ferry on the Main River

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Seligenstadt Ferry on the Main River

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Seligenstadt Ferry on the Main River

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    1. Seligenstadt Main Ferry – Main Cycle Path (Mainradweg) loop from Kleinostheim

    38.0km

    01:54

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    Easy mountain bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    2. Eiscafé Maintor Seligenstadt – Seligenstadt Main Ferry loop from Großkrotzenburg

    37.0km

    02:03

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    Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    3. Main Ferry Seligenstadt – Main Cycle Path (Mainradweg) loop from Dettingen (Main)

    46.5km

    02:29

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    Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    July 23, 2023

    The tour is still Seligenstandt very nice to drive and always along the Main. And to see the city is also very interesting. And don't forget to take the ferry, just 1€

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      July 25, 2023

      One of the last ferries in the Rhein Main area and also a necessary means of transport to change the Main sides

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        October 6, 2023

        Seligenstadt is always a tour
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          August 22, 2024

          Seligenstadt Monastery was a Benedictine abbey in Seligenstadt that existed from the 9th to the 19th century. The monastery complex is located on the banks of the Main in the immediate vicinity of the ruins of the Seligenstadt Palace, historically on the edge but within the ring of walls of the city of Seligenstadt, and today in its center in the eastern district of Offenbach in Hesse.

          Einhard († 840), biographer of Charlemagne, received the settlement "Obermulinheim", the original name of the place, as a gift from Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, in 815. Einhard founded the Seligenstadt Monastery here around 828 and became its first abbot after the death of his wife Imma in 830. In Rome, he acquired relics of the early Christian martyrs Marcellinus and Peter in an unclear manner, which he initially housed in the Steinbach Monastery and then transferred to Seligenstadt. Einhard set up a convent of clergy to institutionalize the cult of the saints and to look after the pilgrims.

          There are hardly any reliable sources from the period between about 850 and 1000. The clerical foundation was probably converted into a Benedictine monastery around 1000. The monastery was directly under imperial control until 1002, when King Henry II transferred it to the Würzburg bishop Henry I as a fief. In 1045 the monastery received the right to mint coins from Emperor Henry III. In 1063 King Henry IV handed the monastery over as a private monastery to the Archbishop of Mainz, to whose domain it belonged until secularization at the beginning of the 19th century. From 1051 to 1122 the Archbishops of Mainz were also abbots of the monastery in personal union.

          The monastery complex corresponded to the ideal model of a Benedictine monastery according to the monastery plan of St. Gallen.

          Source and further information: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Seligenstadt

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            August 22, 2024

            Around the year 100 AD, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan, a cohort fort was built on the site of today's Seligenstadt market square and parts of today's old town, the Castrum Selgum. The cohort stationed there was called Cohors I Civium Romanorum equitata and was responsible for the security of the Limes section along the Main (also known as the Upper Germanic Limes). When the Limes fell during the Alemanni storms around the year 260 AD, the fort was abandoned and the Romans retreated back behind the Rhine line. The early medieval settlement of Mulinheim superior, Obermühlheim, was built on the ruins of the former fort and on the current monastery grounds in the valley section of the Breitenbach.

            The oldest known written mention of Seligenstadt, then known as Obermühlheim, goes back to the donation from Ludwig I to Einhard and, according to a copy of the donation document in the Codex Laureshamensis, dated January 11, 815. The town was founded by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. After he received the Franconian domain of Obermulinheim as a donation from Ludwig the Pious in 815, he founded a Benedictine monastery here. A Count Drogo is mentioned as a previous owner. The bones of the martyrs Peter and Marcellinus, stolen in Rome, were transferred from the basilica in Steinbach in the Odenwald to Obermühlheim in 828, which thus became a place of pilgrimage. The name of the town soon changed from Obermühlheim to Seligenstadt. The bones of the martyrs were initially kept in the Laurentius Chapel on the estate, but this proved to be too small given the influx of believers. Einhard therefore promptly began building the Einhard Basilica, the landmark of the city on the Lower Main, and, as its first lay abbot, founded a Benedictine abbey as his own monastery.

            Source: Wikipedia

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              May 22, 2024

              Seligenstadt is always worth a visit, take a look around, there is so much to experience and discover. Whether it's the half-timbered houses or the monastery, see for yourself.

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