Ingolstadt

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Ingolstadt
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Ingolstadt (US: /ˈɪŋɡəlʃtɑːt, -stɑːt/ ING-gəl-s(h)taht,[2] German: [ˈʔɪŋɡɔlˌʃtat] (audio speaker iconlisten); Bavarian: Inglstod [ˈʔɪŋl̩ʃtɔːd] or Ingoistod, Latin: Auripolis) is a city in the German state of Bavaria near Munich. It is on the Danube river and has about 127,000 inhabitants.

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History

In 1472, Bavaria's first university was founded in Ingolstadt. The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, a regulation about the purity of beer, was started there in 1516. The car manufacturer Audi has its main base in Ingolstadt.

Ingolstadt is also the setting of Mary Shelley's famous novel Frankenstein.

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