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19-633: Eichstätt lies on both sides of the river Altmühl in the district of Eichstätt of the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, in the heart of Altmühl Valley Nature Park . Eichstätt is located in a valley of the Franconian Jura and is famous for the quarries of Solnhofen Plattenkalk (Jurassic limestone). On the Blumenberg the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx was found by Jakob Niemeyer. St. Willibald founded

38-551: A university, including Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees by the State of Bavaria. [1] Altm%C3%BChl The Altmühl ( German pronunciation: [ˈaltˌmyːl] , Latin : Alchmona, Alcmana, Almonus ) is a river in Bavaria , Germany . It is a left tributary of the river Danube and is approximately 230 kilometres (140 mi) long. The source of the Altmühl is close to

57-618: Is designated as a bird and nature reserve . The water taken from the lake flows through a tunnel to the Brombach reservoirs , drained by the Brombach (Regnitz basin), north of the continental divide . The water of the Regnitz flows finally over the Main into the Rhine , so that with the transfer an artificial river bifurcation was created. From Treuchtlingen the Altmühl flows in its lower course through

76-497: Is fed by some streams; in the meantime the source of one of them is regarded as Altmühl origin. The Altmühl therefore rises just south of the major European watershed and then flows mainly in southeastern direction. It is the slowest river in Bavaria, flows very slowly, is even one of the slowest German rivers and is also the longest river that rises and flows in the same German state. The Altmühl can be divided into three parts. In

95-725: Is part of the Table Jura ( Tafeljura ). Large portions of the Franconian Jura are part of the Altmühl Valley Nature Park . The scenic meanders and gorges formed by the river Altmühl draw tourists to visit the region. Geologically, the Franconian Jura is the eastern continuation of the Swabian Jura . The mountain chains are separated from each other by the impact crater of the Nördlinger Ries . The northern part of

114-589: Is the name of an important botanical book first published in 1613 and written by Basilius Besler . Allied prisoners of war were held at Oflag VII-B in Eichstätt during World War II . Activities carried on by the prisoners there included attempted escapes and the production of plays and musical works. These included Hamlet and the Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare , the premiere of Post-Mortem by Noël Coward - featuring Desmond Llewelyn, later best known as Q in

133-490: The Altmühl river have cut deep gorges into the mountains of the Franconian Jura. The Altmühl passes the towns of Treuchtlingen , Eichstätt and Beilngries . Downstream of Dietfurt , the riverbed was straightened and integrated into a canal connecting the river Main and the river Danube (the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal ). In spite of protests by conservationists, the canal was opened in 1992 and has changed much of

152-786: The Diocese of Eichstätt on the site of an old Roman station ( Aureatum or Rubilocus ) in 741. The city was given walls and chartered in 908. It was ruled by a prince-bishop , and in the Holy Roman Empire was the seat of the Bishopric of Eichstätt until secularization in 1802. In 1806, it became a part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Eichstätt was included as part of the Principality of Eichstätt , which King Maximilian I granted to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais in 1817 and an episcopal see

171-749: The EON Bond movies - and of the Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard by Benjamin Britten . The town is dominated by the Willibaldsburg . Besides the cathedral , Eichstätt also has 12 churches and 10 monasteries. Eichstätt is home to the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU), the lone Catholic university in Germany. The KU was founded in 1980, and was granted full rights of

190-530: The Franconian Jura plateau, in whose karst limestone it has dug a narrow valley. On the steep valley slopes here sometimes bizarre rock formations , for instance the cauldron shaped washouts near the village Eßlingen, about 20m above the river level . From Dollnstein the Jura Breakthrough Valley suddenly becomes much wider. From here the Altmühl flows through an earlier valley of the larger Danube . At Rennertshofen this "Urdonautal" branches off from

209-543: The canal construction costs were spent on this. The Altmühl flows into the Danube below Kelheim at Danube kilometers 2411.54. The about 34 kilometers long Altmühl section is included in the federal waterway Main-Danube Canal; In addition, the 580 meters of Altmühl above the weir Dietfurt to the MDK are a federal waterway. Along the Altmühl runs the well-marked and quite well furnished Altmühltalradweg . Canoeing can be done safely on

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228-754: The eastern Altmühl valley. The Altmühl finally flows into the Danube in Kelheim . The Altmühl rises on the southern slope of the Franconian Ridge northeast of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , near the Hohe Leite and about 500m southeast of the Burgbernheim wilderness Wildbad. As its source, the Royal Bavarian Hydrotechnical Bureau at Munich in 1904 fixed the drainage ditch of Hornauer Weiher . This

247-492: The present Danube valley; in the section where not the Altmühl flows in it, but only small brooks, it is called Wellheim dry valley. From the year 1910 the course of the river downstream from Unterwurmbach was straightened and regulated with numerous weirs , hence many oxbow lakes were cut off. Since then, some of the regulatory measures have been reversed, for instance near Treuchtlingen -Graben and shortly before Eichstätt at Wasserzell. Its lowermost course from Dietfurt

266-606: The river itself. [REDACTED] Media related to Altmühl at Wikimedia Commons Franconian Jura The Franconian Jura ( German : Fränkische Alb [ˈfʁɛŋkɪʃə ˈʔalp] , Fränkischer Jura , Frankenalb or Frankenjura ) is an upland in Franconia , Bavaria , Germany . Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to 600 metres (2,000 ft) and it has an area of some 7053.8 km . It

285-520: The town of Ansbach . From here the river runs southeastwards as a narrow brook to enter the Altmühlsee  [ de ] (a lake) north of Gunzenhausen . After leaving Gunzenhausen, the river moves in a broad curve through the Franconian Jura . It enters the Naturpark Altmühltal  [ de ] (Altmühl Valley Nature Park), which is known for its natural environment: The meanders of

304-491: The upper third, it is a meadow river slowly flowing in a broad valley . The landscape is flat, slightly hilly and the ground consists mainly of rocks of the Keuper period, here mainly limestone and clay . The mudstone seals the subsoil , therefore, the Altmühl in its upper reaches is a not-too- broad stream . In its middle course flows the Altmühl in the north and east on Altmühlsee at Gunzenhausen over. The riverbed

323-623: Was expanded in the middle of the 19th century with 10 locks to become a part of the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal . The same route was used from 1975 to 1991 for the construction of the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal , a major shipping route with locks in Riedenburg and Kelheim. For the first time in a waterway construction project in Europe, landscaping plans for ecological measures were set up in order to replace nature and landscape interventions; 15% of

342-643: Was rebuilt here during the construction of the Altmühlsee in the 1980s. On the southern shore of the Altmühlsee, the course of the river crosses the Altmühlüberleiter underground . Only at times of high water discharge does water flow from the Altmühl over the Altmühlzuleiter into the Altmühlsee, which was created as a reservoir to divert water from the Altmühl to the drier river system of the Regnitz . This lake

361-556: Was reestablished in 1821. It reverted to the Bavarian crown in 1855. In 870, the remains of St. Walpurga were transferred from their original Heidenheim interment to Eichstätt, where in 1035 the newer burial site was enshrined as the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga, which continues to this day. In 1943, the painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann moved to Eichstätt and stayed until 1955. Hortus Eystettensis ("Garden at Eichstätt")

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