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Ansbach (; ; East Franconian: ''Anschba'') is a city in the
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state of
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. It is the capital of the
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. Ansbach is southwest of
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and north of
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, on the river Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the river Main. In 2020, its population was 41,681. Developed in the 8th century as a Benedictine monastery, it became the seat of the
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family in 1331. In 1460, the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach lived here. The city has a castle known as Margrafen–Schloss, built between 1704 and 1738. It was not badly damaged during the
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and hence retains its original historical baroque sheen. Ansbach is now home to a US military base and to the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences. The city has connections via autobahn A6 and highways
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and B14. Ansbach station is on the Nürnberg–Crailsheim and Treuchtlingen–Würzburg railways and is the terminus of line S4 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn.


Name origin

Ansbach was originally called Onoltesbach (about 790 AD), a term composed of three parts. The individual word elements are "Onold" (the city founder's name), the
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"-es" (a possessive ending, like "-'s" in English) and the
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expression "pah" or "bach" (for
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). The name of the city has slightly changed throughout the centuries into Onoltespah (837 AD), Onoldesbach (1141 AD), Onoldsbach (1230 AD), Onelspach (1338 AD), Onsbach (1508 AD) and finally Ansbach (1732 AD). It was also formerly known as Anspach.


History

According to folklore, towards the end of the 7th century a group of Franconian peasants and their families went up into the wilderness to found a new settlement. Their leader Onold led them to an area called the "Rezattal" (Rezat valley). This is where they founded the "Urhöfe" (meaning the first farms: Knollenhof, Voggenhof and Rabenhof). Gradually more settlers, such as the "Winden-Tribe" came, and the farms grew into a small village. Many villages around Ansbach were founded by the "Winden" during that period (even today, their settlements can easily identified by their names, like Meinhardszwinden, Dautenwinden or Brodswinden). A Benedictine monastery was established there around 748 by the Frankish noble St Gumbertus. The adjoining village of Onoltesbach was first noticed as a proper town in 1221. The counts of Öttingen ruled over Ansbach until the
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burgrave of
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took over in 1331. The Hohenzollerns made Ansbach the seat of their dynasty until their acquisition of the
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in 1415. After the 1440 death of Frederick I, a cadet branch of the family established itself as the margraves of Ansbach. George the Pious introduced the
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to Ansbach in 1528, leading to Gumbertus Abbey's secularization in 1563. The Markgrafenschloß was built between 1704 and 1738. Its gardens continued to be a notable attraction into the 1800s. In 1791, the last margrave sold his realm to the
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. In 1796, the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph — the future Bavarian king— was exiled to Ansbach the French took Zweibrücken. In Ansbach, Maximilian von Montgelas wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organization of Bavaria, which is known as the Ansbacher Mémoire. Napoleon forced Prussia to cede Ansbach and its principality to
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in the Franco-Prussian treaty of alliance signed at
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on 15 December 1805 at the end of the
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. The act was confirmed by the 1815
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; Prussia was compensated with the Bavarian duchy of Berg. Ansbach became the capital of the circle of Middle Franconia following the
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; at the time, it had a population of 12,635. Jewish families were resident in Ansbach from at least the end of the 18th century. They set up a Jewish Cemetery in the Ruglaender Strasse, which was vandalised and razed under the Nazi regime in the
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. It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more. A plaque on the wall of the cemetery commemorates these events. The Jewish Congregation built its synagogue at No 3 Rosenbadstrasse, but it too was damaged by the SA, though it was not burnt down for fear of damaging the neighbouring buildings. It serves today as a "Symbolic House of God". A plaque in the entrance serves as a memorial to the synagogue and to Jewish residents who were murdered during the Holocaust. In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach 'Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic''to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the Action T4 euthanasia action. They were gassed there. At the clinic in Ansbach itself, around 50 intellectually disabled children were injected with the drug Luminal and killed that way. A plaque was erected in their memory in 1988 in the local hospital at No. 38 Feuchtwangerstrasse. During
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, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here. Also during the Second World War the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht had bases here. The nearby airbase was the home station for the Stab & I/KG53 (Staff & 1st Group of Kampfgeschwader 53) operating 38
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bombers. On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war. All of its bridges were destroyed during the course of the war. During the
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in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the
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, and used by the
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354th Fighter Group which flew
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from the aerodrome (designated ALG R-82) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945. At the end of the war, 19-year-old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight. He was betrayed by
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and was hung from the portal of the City Hall by the city's military commander, Col. (''Oberst'') Ernst Meyer. Several memorials to his heroic deed have been erected over the years, despite opposition from some residents — in the Ludwigskirche, in the Gymnasium Carolinum and at No 6 Kronenstrasse. After the Second World War, Ansbach belonged to the American Zone. The American Military authorities established a displaced persons (DP) camp in what used to be a sanatorium in what is today the Strüth quarter. Bachwoche Ansbach has been held in Ansbach since 1947. Since 1970, Ansbach has enlarged its municipal area by incorporating adjacent communities. Ansbach hosts several units of the U.S. armed forces, associated with German units under
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. There are five separate U.S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to
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, Katterbach Kaserne, formerly the home of the 1st Infantry Division's
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, also home of 501st M.I. Bn and 501st Avn Bn. which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to
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, Kansas; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Theater, barracks, Von Steuben Community Center, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing, and Urlas, which hosts the
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as well as a housing area opened in 2010. Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the
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from 1972 to the early 1990s. On 24 July 2016 a bomb was detonated in a restaurant in the city, killing only the bomber himself and injuring few people. The perpetrator was reported to be a Syrian refugee whose asylum application had been rejected but who had been given exceptional leave to remain until the security situation in Syria returned to a safe condition. Witnesses reported he had tried to enter a nearby music festival but had been turned away, before detonating his device outside a nearby wine bar.


Boroughs

* Eyb bei Ansbach, part of Ansbach since 1 October 1970 * Bernhardswinden, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 * Brodswinden, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 * Claffheim, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 * Elpersdorf bei Ansbach, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 * Hennenbach, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 * Neuses bei Ansbach, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 **
Strüth Strüth is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has a ...
** Wasserzell * Schalkhausen, part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972 ** Geisengrund ** Dornberg ** Neudorf ** Steinersdorf


Lord mayors

* 1877–1905: Ludwig Keller (1839–1911) * 1905–1919: Ernst Rohmeder * 1919–1934: Wilhelm Borkholder (1886–1945) * 1934–1945: Richard Hänel (
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) (1895-date of death unknown) * 1945: Hans Schregle (1890–1970), ( SPD), introduced by the
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* 1945–1950: Ernst Körner (SPD) * 1950–1952: Friedrich Böhner * 1952–1957: Karl Burkhardt (
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) * 1957–1971: Ludwig Schönecker (CSU) * 1971–1990: Ernst-Günther Zumach (CSU) (1926-2012) * 1990–2008: Ralf Felber (SPD) * 2008-2020: Carda Seidel (
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) * since May 2020: Thomas Deffner (CSU)


Sights

* Castle of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach * Margrave museum * Kaspar Hauser Monument * St. Gumbertus and St. Johannis churches, both 15th century *
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* Ansbacher Kammerspiele * LOFT – projectspace for contemporary art


Climate

Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The
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subtype for this climate is " Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/
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).


Economy

Around the time of the
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in 1871, the chief manufactures of Ansbach were
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,
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, and half-
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goods;
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;
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;
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; and
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. A considerable trade in grain,
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, and
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was also supported. By the onset of the
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, it also produced
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, toys, and
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. Today there is a large density of
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in the city and rural districts around Ansbach.


Transport

Ansbach lies on the Treuchtlingen-Würzburg railway.


Notable people

*
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth (also known as Frederick V; german: Friedrich V. von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wi ...
(1460–1536) * Albert of Prussia (1490–1568), Grand Master of the
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and the first duke of
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*In the late 16th century, the physician to margrave Georg Friedrich was the famous botanist,
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(1501–1566) *Ansbach was home of the astronomer
Simon Marius Simon Marius ( latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. He is most known for being among the first ...
(1573–1625), who observed
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's moons from the castle's tower. Later he claimed to be the discoverer of the moons, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer,
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* Johann Peter Uz (1720–1796), poet *
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(1796-1835), poet * Georges Oberhaeuser (1798–1868), optician * Kaspar Hauser (1812–1833), lived in Ansbach from 1830 to 1833. He was stabbed (possibly self-inflicted) in the palace gardens * Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), was the last rabbi of Ansbach. He was the rabbinical advisor to the German occupying forces of Poland in the First World War and was also one of the founders of the World Agudath Israel movement * Max Westenhöfer (1871–1957), pathologist, professor at the
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and the
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. Proposed the
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*
Herbert Blendinger Herbert Blendinger (3 January 1936 - 15 May 2020) was an Austrian composer and viola player of German origin. Career Born in Ansbach, Blendinger studied viola and composition with Willy Horwath and Max Gebhard at the conservatory in Nuremberg, ...
, Violinist and composer was born in Ansbach in 1936 * Matthias Buchinger (1674–1740), a German artist, magician and illustrator, born without hands or legs


Born in Ansbach

* Manfred Ach (born 1940), politician, from 1994 to 2008 Member of the Bavarian Parliament *
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(1893–1978), Colonel General *
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(1683–1737), wife of
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* Marcus Eliezer Bloch (1723–1799), ichthyologist *
Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach (23 October 1663 – 4 March 1724) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and through her marriage duchess of Württemberg-Winnental. Life Eleonore Juliane was a daughter of Albert II, Margrave of Bra ...
(1663–1724), Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg-Winnental * Elisabeth von Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Brandenburg, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg * Walter Brandmüller (born 1929), theologian and church historian, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences * George H. Brickner (1834–1904), U.S. Representative from
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* Matthias Buchinger (1674–1740), artist, magician, calligrapher, and performer * Danilo Dittrich (born 1995), football player *
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(1876-1956), General of the Artillery * *
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(1857–1911), pediatrician and bacteriologist *
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(born 1992), racing driver *
Hermann Fegelein Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her si ...
(1906–1945), General of the Waffen-SS, was married to the sister of
Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler (; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his ...
* Waldemar Fegelein (1912–2000), officer in the Waffen-SS * Ludwig von Förster (1792–1863), architect: Ringstrasse, 3 synagogues (Vienna, Budapest) * Fritz Hommel (1854–1936), orientalist *
Amélie Jakobovits Amélie Jakobovits, Baroness Jakobovits (née Munk, 31 May 1928 – 7 May 2010) was a British charity patron, and the wife of Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, and an important figure in Jew ...
(née Munk, 1928–2010), wife of Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom * Alex King, basketball player * Georg Christian Oeder (1728–1791), pre-Linnean botanist * John James Maximilian Oertel (1811–1882), born in Ansbach, was a
Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched ...
clergyman Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...
who later converted to
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and moved to the United States * Sebastian Preiss (born 1981), handball player * Moritz Ritter von Spies (1805–1862), Bavarian Major General and War Minister * Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), chemist, physician and metallurgist


Twin towns – sister cities

Ansbach is twinned with: *
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* Bay City,
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Fermo Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and '' comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest ...
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* Jingjiang,
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In popular culture

In the novel ''The Schirmer Inheritance'' (1953) by
Eric Ambler Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for bo ...
(1909–1998), Sergeant Franz Schirmer of the Ansbach Dragoons is wounded in the battle of Preussisch-Eylau in 1807. He returns to Ansbach to settle but changes his name as he has been posted as a deserter. The bulk of the novel concerns efforts by an American law firm to trace his descendants to claim an inheritance.


See also

* Wolf of Ansbach


Notes


References

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External links

* (German, English, French)
Ansbach informationUS Army Garrison Ansbach – Ansbach Military CommunityAnsbach University of Applied Sciences
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