Hahnbach is a
municipality
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in the district of
Amberg-Sulzbach
Amberg-Sulzbach () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the city of Amberg. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Schwandorf, Neumarkt, Nü ...
in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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. There are living at the moment about 5000 people. The most important districts are: Fronbergsiedlung, Friedhofsiedlung, Süd 3, Markt. About 2000 of the 5000 people are not living in Hahnbach by itself, they are living in villages like Dürnsricht or Iber, which are in the area of Hahnbach. SSince 2014, the Mayor of Hahnbach is Bernhard Lindner (
CSU
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). The CSU is the most popular party in Hahnbach, at the last election they got more than 75% of the votes, at place two was the
SPD with at least 20% of the votes. The most important objects of interest are the Amberger Tor and the Fahrraddenkmal, which shows a biker holding his bike. The church in Hahnbach is called St. Jakobus Church. The sports team is called SV Hahnbach.
Geography
Apart from Hahnbach the municipality consists of the following villages:
*Adlholz
*Dürnsricht
*Frohnberg
*Frohnhof
*Godlricht
*Hahnbach
*Höhengau
*Iber
*Irlbach
*Kienlohe
*Kötzersricht
*Kreuzberg
*Kümmersbuch
*Laubhof
*Luppersricht
*Mausdorf
*Mimbach
*Mülles
*Oberschalkenbach
*Ölhof
*Pickenricht
*Schalkenthan
*Süß
*Unterschalkenbach
*Ursulapoppenricht
*Wüstenau
*Wüstenaumühle
Notable people
People born in Hahnbach:
*
Andreas Raselius (1530 - 1575),
German renaissance composer
*
Daniel Siegert (born 1991), German child singer, first winner of German version of
Star Search
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References
Populated places in Amberg-Sulzbach
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