Ingolstadt

For the first time, the name Ingoldesstadt was mentioned in a letter about the division of land between the sons of Charlemagne on February 6, 806. In the 13th century, Ingolstadt received city status. From 1392 to 1447 - the capital of the Duchy of Bavaria-Ingolstadt .

In 1472, the first university in Bavaria was founded in the city, which later became the center of the counter-reformation . Luther's main opponent in religious disputes, Johann Eck, was the rector of this university. In 1776, Adam Weishaupt , Dean of the Faculty of Law, founded the Order of the Illuminati . The university closed in 1800.

On April 23, 1516, Ingolstadt proclaimed a law on the “purity” of beer ( Reinheitsgebot ). Only three components, according to him, can be in real beer: water , hops and barley . It is the oldest food law in the world and still in force. ^[5]

In 1549, the Jesuits were called to the city. The Ingolstadt Center administered all the Jesuits of southern Germany. Since the XVI century, the city ​​has become the largest fortress in the region.

MN Tukhachevsky , the future Soviet marshal, and Charles de Gaulle , the future president of France , were serving their sentences here in a prison camp in the years of the First World War .

From January to April 1945, Ingolstadt (including the historical center) was subjected to regular bombing of the Allies .

• fragments of the city wall of the last third of the XIV century with 7-tower gates
• Romanesque Moritzkirche (1234)
• 13th Century Old Castle - Bavaria's oldest ducal castle
• New Castle (XV century)
• Ingolstadt University building (1436-1472)
• Gothic Cathedral of Libfrauenmunster (1425-1536)
• Church of Maria de Victoria - a rococo masterpiece (1732-36) with a unique ceiling of the Azam brothers
• Franciscan Monastery (1275) with baroque decoration
• Tilly redoubt and other Leo von Klenze fortifications (1828-1850, classicism)

Museums

• Bavarian Army Museum (c 1972) in the building of the New Castle
• World War I Museum in the Tilly Redoubt Fortress
• Museum of the Bavarian police in the fortress tower of Triva
• German Medical History Museum (in a building from 1736)
• Museum of the city of Ingolstadt
• Museum of the Audi plant ( museum mobile )
• Museum of Concrete Art
• Museum of the sculptor Alfa Lechner
• Museum-Archive of Mariluise Fleiser et al.
• Museum of Celtic Culture in suburban Manching (on the site of the Gallic oppidium )

Ingolstadt is a major automotive center. Here are the headquarters of Audi and the Media Markt retailer.

In 2014, Ingolstadt took first place in the ranking of investment attractiveness of German cities. ^[6]

• Catholic University (since 1980)
• University of Applied Sciences (since 1994)

Outside the city are:

• hockey club " ERK Ingolstadt "
• football club Ingolstadt 04
• baseball club Ingolstadt Shantser

Ingolstadt is home to many Russian-speaking, mostly German immigrants and their families. There are Russian shops, organizations and interest clubs. In all large (and in most small) stores and enterprises there are Russian-speaking personnel.

The city operates the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Protection of the Virgin ^[7] (the parish was founded on October 14, 1945) and the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (run by the ROCA ).

Since November 8, 1995, the city has been a twin city of the Central Administrative District of Moscow ^[8] .

According to estimates as of December 31, 2015, the population of the inter-district city (urban community) Ingolstadt is 132,438 people. ^[9]

• See Category: Persons: Ingolstadt

The fictional character of the English writer Mary Shelley Victor Frankenstein studied natural sciences here.

The fictional character of the WARHAMMER 40000 universe, Fabius Byle, was originally from Ingolstadt.

• Website of the Russian-speaking Ingolstadt