Seligenstadt

D. and I visited the town "Seligenstadt" today. The town lies on the river Main’s left bank roughly 25 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main, directly neighbouring Bavaria.
Seligenstadt has a beautiful big church, in the past part of the monastery, but after the secularization now just a parish church. On the church wall you can read the year 800, but of course what is visible now was built (a bit) later. My first extra is the sanctuary (behind a gate, so limited view).
Much of the previous monastery still exists, e.g. the garden with many different plants (flowers, fruits, herbs). Also still existing is an old water mill, originally from 1574. The sources of the creek feeding the mill dried out, but nowadays the rain water from all the roofs of monastery and basilica is gathered in cisterns. The mill has three wheels, and where the water enters the mill it can be led into the trough of the wheel that will be used (extra 2).
Seligenstadt itself is a lovely little (and old, AD 100!!) town with a large number of small and long (narrow) streets, full of half-timbered houses. According to the WWW the city was not bombed during WWII, what saved this beauty.