ASCHAFFENBURG, fi-shii'fcn-burK. The capital of the Bavarian district of Lower Fran conia, on the right bank of the Slain, at its junction with the Aschaff (latitude 50° l' N., longitude 9° 7' E.), about 2:3 miles east-south east of Frankfort (Map: Germany. C 4). It is built upon an eminence, and has both a healthful and attractive situation; but the streets are narrow, irregular, and slope steeply toward the river. The castle of built between 11;03-14, by Johann Sch•eikard7 of Kronbe•g, elector of Mainz, contains a collection of paint ings and and a fine library. Besides the collegiate elmreh, the military barracks, and the town hospitals, Aschaffenburg possesses a Boman villa, built by King Louis 1., in imita tion of the Castor and Pollux edifice discovered at Pompeii. Among its educational and charitable institutions are a gymnasium, a real-sehale, two seminaries, a music school. and two orphan asy
lnms. It is the burial-place of the poets NN'. Ileinse and K. Brentano. The town is celebrated for its manufacture of colored papers, besides carrying on a considerable trade in wood, build ing stone, tobacco. wine, etc. Population, in 1590, 13,275; in 1900, 18,091. principally Catholics. Aschaffenburg existed as early as the invasion of Germany by the Romans, who built a castle here. In 974 it ea me into the poSSPSS ion of the archbishops of Mainz. and remained with them until the dissolution of the 1-ermanip Empire. The Concordat between the Pope and the Ger man nation was prepared at Ascha•enburg in 1447. In 1814, along with the principality of which it is the capital. it was ceded to Bavaria by Austria.