Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Straubing is an independent city in Lower Bavaria, southern Germany. It is seat of the district Straubing-Bogen. Annually in August the Gäubodenvolksfest, the second largest fair in Bavaria, is held. The city is located on the Danube forming the center of the Gäuboden. The area of Straubing is continuously settled since the Neolithic. The conquest by the Romans in 16-14 BC had a dramatic impact on the whole region. Even today a lot of traces of the 400 year lasting Roman occupation can be found (for example the famous ''Römerschatz'' (roman treasure) which is shown in the Gäubodenmuseum). Sorviodurum, as the Romans called it, was an important military support base.