Auerbach or Auer Bach, German for "meadow-brook", may refer to the following:

Places

In Austria

Auerbach, Upper Austria Auerbach () is a town in Upper Austria, Austria. Its length from north to south is 4.3 km and from east to west is 5 km; its area is 10.78 km2. In 2015, it had 565 inhabitants. Subdivisions Auerbach consists of two ''Katastralgemein ...

, Braunau am Inn district

In Germany

Localities

Auerbach (Albtal) Karlsbad (; South Franconian: ''Kallsbad'') is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Demographics Population development: Geography and history The municipality is situated on the Alb-Pfinz Plateau i ...

, a village of Karlsbad, administrative area in Baden-Württemberg * Auerbach (Elztal), a district of Elztal, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg *

Auerbach, Erzgebirgskreis Auerbach () is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Al ...

, a municipality in Saxony * Auerbach (Horgau), a village of Horgau, in Bavaria *

Auerbach in der Oberpfalz Auerbach in der Oberpfalz (, ) is a town in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany. In the subdivision Michelfeld there was a Michelfeld Abbey, Benedictine monastery which is now a nursing home. Geography It is located 45 km northeas ...

, a town in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria * Auerbach, Lower Bavaria, a municipality in the Deggendorf district, Bavaria *

Auerbach (Vogtland) Auerbach () is a town in the Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany. It is the regional centre of the eastern Vogtland. The economy is mainly based on textile manufacturing, food processing and machine industry. After Plauen Plauen (; ; ) is a to ...

, a town in Saxony

Rivers

Auerbach (Günz) Auerbach is a river in Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Günz in Babenhausen. See also *List of rivers of Bavaria A list of rivers of Bavaria, Germany: A * Aalbach * Abens * Ach * Afferbach * Affinger Bach * Ailsbach * Aisch * ...

, tributary of the Günz, Bavaria *

Auerbach (Kinzig) The Auerbach is a small river of Hesse, Germany. It is a left and southern tributary of the Kinzig into which it flows in Schlüchtern-Niederzell. It starts from the ''Schwarzen Born'' at 428 meters above sea level south of Schlüchtern - Hohenz ...

, tributary of the Kinzig, Hesse *

Auer Bach Auer Bach is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Wupper in Wuppertal. See also *List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia A list of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: A B C * Calenberger Bach * Cas ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia

Landmarks

Auerbach Castle Auerbach Castle is one of several fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany. The castle was originally built by King Charlemagne (Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire) and rebuilt by Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen dy ...

, in Bensheim, Hesse *

Auerbachs Keller Auerbachs Keller (, Auerbach's Cellar in English) is the second oldest restaurant in Leipzig, Germany. Already one of the city's most important wine bars by the 16th century, it owes its worldwide reputation to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe' ...

, a historic restaurant in Leipzig, made famous by Goethe's ''Faust I''

People

Auerbach (surname) Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerb ...

, a German surname, including a list of people with that surname *

Auerbach (Jewish family) The Jewish family Auerbach, Авербах () of the 16th to 19th century was a family of scholars, the progenitor of which was Moses Auerbach, born around 1462, court Jew to the bishop of Regensburg as of around 1497. One of his daughters, who ...

, a family of scholars of the 16th to 19th century *

Frank Auerbach Frank Helmut Auerbach (29 April 1931 – 11 November 2024) was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of Lo ...

, German-born British painter

Other uses

Auerbach's plexus The myenteric plexus (or Auerbach's plexus) provides motor innervation to both layers of the muscular layer of the gut, having both parasympathetic and sympathetic input (although present ganglion cell bodies belong to parasympathetic innervatio ...

, a plexus of sympathetic nerve fibers *

VfB Auerbach VfB Auerbach is a football in Germany, German football club from the city of Auerbach (Vogtland), Auerbach, Saxony. The club also has a tennis department. History The association was founded as the ''Auerbacher Fußball Club'' on 17 May 1906 mak ...

, German football club * Auerbach Publishing * Auerbach basis, in functional analysis {{geodis