Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a city in Upper Bavaria, southern Germany, best known for being home to the car company Audi. It was here that the dukes of Bavaria, Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X, announced the Reinheitsgebot brewing purity order in 1516, which is still used heavily in marketing for German beer.Places of Interest
Highlights include Audi museum mobile and Saturn Arena.
Audi museum mobile
Museum
Photo: Sese Ingolstadt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Audi museum mobile is an automobile museum owned and operated by Audi AG in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Opened in 2000, it is devoted to the history of Audi and its predecessors, and is the focal point of the Audi Forum Ingolstadt.
Saturn Arena
Stadium
Photo: Brian clontarf, Public domain.
Saturn Arena is an arena in Ingolstadt, Germany. It is primarily used for the ice hockey club ERC Ingolstadt. Saturn Arena opened in 2003 and holds 4,815 people.
New Castle
Castle
Photo: Brian clontarf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Castle in Ingolstadt is one of the most important Gothic secular buildings of the 15th Century in Bavaria. The builders were Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Duke George the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut, both of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samholz.
Samholz
Hamlet
Photo: -wuppertaler, CC BY 4.0.
Samholz is a hamlet, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Ingolstadt.
Ingolstadt
- Type: Locality with 141,000 residents
- Also known as: “09161000”
- Location: Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.7667° or 48° 46′ northLongitude
11.4147° or 11° 24′ 53″ eastPopulation
141,000Elevation
376 metres (1,234 feet)Open location code
8FWHQC87+MVGeoNames ID
6556096
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In Other Languages
From French to German—“Ingolstadt” goes by many names.
- French: “Ingolstadt”
- German: “Ingolstadt”
- German: “Stadt Ingolstadt”
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