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Extract from the Eichsttt Travel Guides:
EICHSTTT
, which lies 27km northwest of Ingolstadt, is the gateway to Germany's largest
Naturpark
, the
Altmhl valley
. This Jurassic region was first inhabited by humans 100,000 years ago, and its soils have produced many yields of prehistoric fossils and minerals in a quite remarkable state of preservation. The town itself was for centuries a prince-bishopric at the junction of the three historic provinces of Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia, and was sufficiently prestigious for one of its rulers, Gebhard I, to gain election as Pope Victor II. Having been almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War,...
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