Aschaffenburg a walk around town
my apologies: the heat must have affected brain & camera at times	Pompejanum

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Herstallturm of 1595, a remnant of the town wall, used as torture chamber – or so the guidebook says	Fußgängerzone – pedestrian shopping section leading to the old town

open air market near the Johannnisburg Palace	view from the palace gardens towards Main Rriver and Pompejanum

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Around the Stiftsbasilika

Reconstructed 16th century building at right, which originally housed a pharmacy, the Löwenapotheke. Stiftsmuseum at center.

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Stiftsmuseum
click on  Museumsrundgang  in the grey box at right

Virgin and child, 13th century	St. Martin and the mendicant, 1440	Duke Otto of Suebia & Bavaria, who died in battle against the Saracenes 982

around 1500

chess board, front & back, around 1300—the oldest of its kind known in Germany

Reconstructed votive altar of the beneficius Gaius Caesonius Senilis from nearby Stockstadt.

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Pompejanum

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