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Extract from the Kaufbeuren Travel Guides:
KAUFBEUREN
, a former Free Imperial City some 55km southwest of Augsburg by road or rail, is in many ways reminiscent of the better-known and more heavily touristed medieval towns further north. The key difference is that it is larger and more industrialized, largely as a result of the creation of the suburb of
Neugablonz
, the only community set up after World War II by refugees from a single area of Eastern Europe (Gablonz in the Sudetenland) from which Germans had been expelled. An intact
Stadtmauer
, part of whose sentry walk survives, still surrounds the cobblestoned Altstadt. At its highest point, th...
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