Abenberg () is a town in the
Middle Franconia
Middle Franconia (german: Mittelfranken, ) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the west of Bavaria and borders the state of Baden-Württemberg. The administrative seat is Ansbach; however, ...
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district of Roth, in
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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. It is situated 9 km west of
Roth bei Nürnberg and 25 km southwest of
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
.
Subdivisions
Abenberg has
Bayerische-Landesbibliothek-Online.de
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Sons and daughters of the town
* John Schopper, 27th abbot of monastery Heilsbronn (1529-1540)
* Georg Schwarz (1873-1948), politician, (Bavarian People's Party, Center Party), member of Reichstag and Landtag
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