Bavarian Reinheitsgebot in 1516. In 1748, Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Order of Illuminati, was born in Ingolstadt.
Adolf Scherzer composed the "Bayerischen Defiliermarsch". Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was set at the Ingolst�dter Alte Anatomie (Old Anatomy Building), now a museum for medical history. The famous writer Marieluise Flei�er wrote Pioniere in Ingolstadt in 1928
