Kirchgasse leads to the Büsing Park in Offenbach, with the Baroque Büsing-Palais (restored; cultural and congress center) and the Park Baths. In a side wing added about 1900 is the Klingspor Museum (international printing and calligraphy since 1890).
4.5km/3mi southwest of Offenbach is Heusenstamm, with Schloss Schönborn (17th C) and the parish church of SS. Cecilia and Barbara (by Balthasar Neumann, 1739-44).
Address: Heusenstamm Tourist Office, Im Herrngarten 1, D-63150 Heusenstamm, Germany
In the west of Offenbach is the Municipal Museum (featuring history of the town; porcelain and faience; dolls' houses; section on Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography).
Address: Municipal Museum, Herrnstraße 61, D-63067 Offenbach am Main, Germany
8km/5mi southeast of Offenbach is Seligenstadt, named after a Benedictine abbey founded in 825 by Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, with an Early Romanesque church ("Einhard's Basilica") which was altered in the 13th C. The remains of Einhard and his wife are preserved in a Baroque sarcophagus. There are remains of a Hohenstaufen stronghold and of the old town walls.
Benedictine Abbey, Seligenstadt.
Architecture of Benedictine Abbey, Seligenstadt.
Address: Seligenstadt Tourist Office, Einhardhaus am Marktplatz, D-63500 Seligenstadt, Germany
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Seligenstadt, Offenbach
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