Regensburg, Germany
Regensburg (German Ratisbon) is a city in Bavaria in the
southeast of Germany at the confluence of the Danube and the Regen Rivers. For a time,
Albertus Magnus was
the bishop of Regensburg.
The fourteenth-century Reichssaal in the town hall was the site
of the Imperial Diet between 1663 and 1806. But Regensburg
was devastated by French troops in 1809, and was ceded back
to Bavaria in 1810.
Regensburg's impressive medieval architecture survived the French
assault, however, and much of it still stands, including the
twelfth-century Steinerne Brücke (stone bridge) across the
Danube and the Cathedral of Saint Peter (1275-1524). St.
Emmeram's, a ninth-century Romanesque church, was significantly
remodeled in the eighteenth century. St. Emmeram's Abbey in 1812 became the palace
of the princes of Thurn and Taxis.
