Decrease page margins on minipage

Question

I'm having following problem:
I have two pictures side by side with minipage. Annoyingly this creates a margin on either side of the minipages, which is much bigger than the normal page margin. Is there a way to reduce this?
My Code:
documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}
usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
usepackage {hyperref}
usepackage[section]{placeins}
usepackage{parskip}
usepackage{textcomp}
usepackage{caption}
captionsetup[figure]{font=footnotesize, labelfont=footnotesize}

usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{adjustbox}

usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}

setmainfont{Arial}
graphicspath{{Grafiken/}}

begin {document}

etc etc

begin{figure} [hbt!]
centering
begin{minipage}{0.45textwidth}
    centering
    includegraphics [width=.8linewidth]{A1B1} 
    caption{Aufschluss Westbahnhof}
    label {fig:A1B1}
end{minipage}
begin{minipage}{0.45textwidth}
    centering
    includegraphics [width=.8linewidth]{A1B2} 
    caption{Einzelner Pflasterstein}
    label {fig:A1B2}
end{minipage}
end{figure}

etcetc

end {document}

I'd basically like to adjust the margin on the minipage sizes so it fits more with the margins of the main document.
Cheers
Anton

David Carlisle · Answer

We can't run your example (you could use example-image as the image as it's generally available but it perhaps helps to annotate the spaces (just looking at the block within textwidth assuming the overall page margin is OK)

Your total minipage space is only 90% of the text width and the images only take up 80% of that already reduced space
I would set the minipage width to .5textwidth and remove the word space between the two with ...end{minipage}begin{minipage}... with no space, then make the images a bit wider say 0.9linewidth so 90% of the already wider minipage.

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