The family’s arrival with the entire court household brought economic prosperity to Regensburg. The city’s cultural and social life were enhanced considerably. One priceless contribution was the princely court library, created by Prince Carl Anselm from his private collection of 2,330 volumes. This institution has been open to the public without fee since 1786. The Regensburg theater and the “green belt” around the old town, still unique today, can also be traced back to Prince Carl Anselm. Social life was always conducted according to the elaborate protocol of the Viennese imperial court. In Regensburg, in the old Roman settlement and in the medieval imperial metropolis, a new era dawned with the arrival of the family of Thurn und Taxis, a family oriented toward the great aristocratic houses of Europe, an era that still lives on today…