👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little bit of a word – "Aschaffenburg." Now, honestly, just saying the name out loud already feels a little…beige, right? It rolls around your mouth like a slightly damp, unfortunately decorated teadale.
Basically, Aschaffenburg is this ridiculously pretty, historically significant, and frankly rather sleepy smallish town in the state of Hessen, Germany. (Think geranium allotments, half-timbered houses that probably gossip amongst themselves, and a really good Franconian wine. You know, very…German. It was once a hugely important fortress under the Counts of Brandenburg and then under Bavarian dominion. The defining thing about Aschaffenburg, in point form for your convenience (lest I bore you into a permanent, beige-tinged stupor) is this: It housed the Electoral Chapel of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar–Eisenach! This sounds fancy. It basically meant that, at one point in the eighteenth century, it was the most ridiculously overblown and ornate religious space to be found anywhere near a stuffy Saxon duke with really very long, rather serious eyebrows. There are some spectacularly pretty castles. (As you might guess, 18th-century baroque is a thing there – lots of gilding! It's basically the equivalent of a German where it has a lot. )
