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brendareed Says: The very large church in the center of Seligenstadt and pleasantly situated next to the Main River is Einhard-Basilika, which was designated a minor basilica in 1925. However, the basilica was begun over 1,000 years ago in 830 AD. Fifteen years before that, a Benedictine...
brendareed Says: These gardens are worth a special trip to see in the spring – and that is exactly what we did! After seeing them in the middle of winter all bare and grey, we headed back on a beautifully sunny spring day. Everything was blooming, including roses and decorative plants. Paved...
brendareed Says: Beside the gardens of the monastery that is connected to the basilica is a beautifully old stone building with a water wheel on the side. On our second visit to Seligenstadt in the spring, the mill was open for visitors and the water wheel was operational. As we walked...
brendareed Says: We were told by a local German lady that this was one of her favorite Christmas markets, so we had to see what it was like. It was a sunny but cold day in December when Hubby and I drove to Seligenstadt. The market was in full swing with market stalls set up in the market...
Oh heavenly beer – brewery tour
Trekki Says: Ah yes, Glaab’s brewery. I was really happy that I joined our group to learn about beer. Glaabs is one of the oldest brewery in this part of Germany and they are very proud to have already the fifth generation of brewers at hand, although the kid is five years (if I remember...
Guided tour through town of Seligenstadt
MD2nd Says: An excursion through the town of Seligenstadt is a journey into history: An encounter with Roman legionairies, with mediaeval traders on their way to the Frankfurt Trade Fair, with skilled monks and art-loving abbots, with native artisans, wealthy merchants and poor...
MD2nd Says: Einhard-Basilika with Saints Marcellinus’s and Peter’s relics. Since 1925 it has borne the honorary title of minor basilica, bestowed by Pope Pius XI. Although the building was heavily modified over the centuries, this is nonetheless one of the most impressive basilicas with...
Kloster Cafe in Benedikteriner Abtei: No doubt this cafe is pleasing
MD2nd Says: Though we've had nothing of their great looking selection of cakes and pastries and such, but coffee, mineralwater and juice only, their menu showed us that they do provid with nice breakfast and lunch. Lovely family and seniors oriented cafe.
Klein's Brauhaus: The other Brewery in Seligenstadt
TomInGermany Says: After spending a couple of hours wondering around the town and visiting the Christmas market we walked to the restaurant which is across the street from the train station and only about a 10 minute walk from the Altstadt. We arrived shortly after it was supposed to open...
Glaabsbrau: The larger brewery in town
TomInGermany Says: There are two breweries in Seligenstadt – Glaabsbrau and Kleines Brauhaus. Glaabsbrau is the larger of the two with a wide selection of beers that you can purchase in bottles at the local drinks stores (getränkemarkt) in the local area. There are also a number of restaurants...
Römischer Kaiser: Good food next to the brewery:
Trekki Says: Following our brewery tour we all had dinner here. This restaurant once belonged to the Glaabs family but they have sold it some time ago to concentrate on brewing only. But it shared the courtyard with the brewery and both have several joint events such as the Hof-Fest in...
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(Sorry for this lousy screenshot, I am using Win7’s “Snipper” and that does not have a text function).
Seligenstadt can easily be reached by train and bus. The train station is in the western part of the city, while the city or town centre including brewery, monastery and Main River is to the east. Distance from train station (1 in my screenshot) to the eastern parts of the town is approx. 700 m. The brewery (2) is northwest of the town centre, approx. 100 m. What I have marked as (3) is the famous Kloster Seligenstadt (a former Benedictine abbey), very much worth to visit, although I haven’t done this yet. Have a look at the link I made and you will see, although the website is in German only.
Updated Mar 24, 2010
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I am pleased to see that this specific “beer” is still so famous even if it dates back as much as 90 years by now, actually not being “beer”. Beer lovers most probably know the German “Reinheitsgebot” (funny to see this term being used in English language), which stands for purity law and means that beer can/should/must only contain water, barley and hop. Since Malzbier contains barley malt and additional glucose syrup, it cannot be called beer. But then it does not contain alcohol and this makes it perfect for kids. This method was invented by Friedrich Glaab in 1920 and is being produced in Glaabs Brewery since then.
I grew up with this Vitamalz. Whenever my father had a beer in the evening, I joined him with my Malzbier bottle. Funny though that I never became a beer lover. I drink beer occasionally, but prefer wine. But it was fun when I realised that “my” Vitamalz was kind of born in Glaabs Brewery, and I was immediately thrown back to my kids days.
Vitamalz is still being sold and yes, I am seriously considering to become a customer again, no matter that I am no longer a kid. Somewhere I read that the taste can be compared to root beer. But I strongly object, root beer is much more sweet in my opinion. I leave it up to dear Richie to judge when D & he are back here in Germany.
I wrote this in March 2010.
© Ingrid D. (just in case, RickS or others come along and think they can steal texts).
Updated May 4, 2011
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamalz
Seligenstadt's sister city is Brookfield
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Saint Boniface, the apostle of the Germans
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Seligenstadt, "town of the blessed ones", is a town of about 21.000 citizens in Germany's Hesse, laying right at the banks of the Main river. Have never been to that city until gfs and me made it...
Seligenstadt & beer: especially for Richie&D. :-)
... and the other beer lovers on VT and elsewhere :-) It would have taken a long time for me to ever visit Seligenstadt although it is almost around the corner of where I live. But we recently had an...
Historically, Seligenstadt has been around for a very, very long time. It is, in fact, one of the oldest towns in Germany and dates back to Roman times when Roman legions were stationed in the area to...
Since my goal while living in Germany to try as many different brews as possible, Seligenstadt was pretty high on my list since there are two breweries in the town - Glaasbrau and Kleines Brauhaus.......
- Market Square, center of photo is the red timber-frame Einhardhaus from 1596 * Seligenstadt, population: 20,000 - a Hesse city on the Main river and a Roman settlement as early as 815 .
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