Editing Aschaffenburg (section)

===Pre-history to Middle Ages===
[[File:Aschaffenburg, die Sankt Peter und Alexander Kirche DmD-6-61-000-293 poging2 foto10 2016-08-08 20.18.jpg|thumb|''[[St. Peter und Alexander (Aschaffenburg)|Kollegiatstift St. Peter und Alexander]]'']]

The earliest remains of settlements in the area of Aschaffenburg date from the [[Stone Age]].

Aschaffenburg was originally a settlement of the [[Alamanni]]. [[Roman legion]]s were stationed here. In c. 700 AD, the ''[[Ravenna Cosmography]]'' names two settlements in region: ''Uburzis'' ([[Würzburg]]) and ''Ascapha'' (Aschaffenburg).<ref name="Dumont">{{cite book|last=Dettelbacher|first=Werner|title=Franken - Kunst, Geschichte und Landschaft (German)|publisher=Dumont Verlag|year=1974|isbn=3-7701-0746-2}}</ref>{{rp|69}}

Around 550, the area had been conquered by the [[Franks]], and their [[mayor of the palace|''Hausmeier'']] built a castle here. In the 8th century, a [[Benedictine]] monastery was founded, dedicated to St. Michael, reportedly by [[Saint Boniface]]. This became the ''[[St. Peter und Alexander (Aschaffenburg)|Kollegiatstift St. Peter und Alexander]]'' in the second half of the 10th century (957). In 869, King [[Louis the Younger]] married [[Liutgard of Saxony (died 885)|Liutgard of Saxony]] at Aschaffenburg. She also died here in 885 and was later laid to rest with her daughter Hildegard in the ''Stiftskirche''. ''Ascaffinburg'' is mentioned first in 974 in a gift document by [[Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto II]], in which he gave several villages including [[Wertheim am Main]] and a stretch of forest in the Spessart to the collegiate church.<ref name="Dumont"/>{{rp|69}}<ref name="Zeitreise">{{cite book|last1=Schumacher|first1=Karin|last2=Schumacher |first2=Hans-Jürgen|title=Zeitreise durch den Spessart (German)|publisher=Wartberg Verlag|year=2003|isbn=3-8313-1075-0}}</ref>{{rp|56}}

In the [[Middle Ages]] the town was known as ''Ascaffaburc'', ''Ascapha'' or ''Ascaphaburg''. A stone bridge over the Main was reportedly built by Archbishop [[Willigis]] in 989, who also made the town his second residence. The town (referred to in 975 as a ''civitas'') was part of the [[Archbishopric of Mainz]] from 982, when [[Otto I, Duke of Swabia and Bavaria|Duke Otto]] died. A ''Vizedom'' is mentioned for the first time in 1122 as the top local representative of the Archbishop. In 1292 a synod was held here, and in 1447 an [[Reichstag (Holy Roman Empire)|imperial diet]], preliminary to that of [[Vienna]], approved a concordat (sometimes called the ''Aschaffenburg Concordat''). In the [[German Peasants' War]] (1525), the town backed the losing side.<ref name=Brit>"Aschaffenburg" in ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica|The New Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. Chicago: [[Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.]], 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 617.</ref><ref name="Zeitreise"/>{{rp|56–7}}