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Aschaffenburg

British  
/ aˈʃafənbʊrk /

noun

  1. a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Before it turned up at Goodwill, the bust had last been attached to the Pompejanum complex in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Meanwhile, Young enlisted researcher Jörg Deterling, who found out the bust’s home was the Pompejanum historic building in Aschaffenburg, Germany, something Bavarian government officials confirmed.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

The Pompejanum in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg was built in the 1840s and had been severely damaged by Allied bombing during World War Two.

From BBC ● May 6, 2022

Another woman who was there, Sara, a 25-year-old from the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, said the situation was still precarious at 4 a.m., when she arrived at the station with a girlfriend.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

Benedict gave Fritz twenty florins and sent him back to Aschaffenburg.

From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

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