Windsbach is a town in the district of Ansbach, in

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. It is situated 20 km east of

Ansbach Ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränk ...

, and 29 km southwest of

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Geography

Location

Windsbach is located in the Rangau area on the river

Franconian Rezat The Franconian Rezat (, ) is a river in southern Germany. It is the western, left source river of the Rednitz. It rises in the Franconian Heights near Oberdachstetten. It flows generally east through the towns Lehrberg, Ansbach, Windsbach and ...

. The city's position is 20 km eastward of the district capital

and 40 km southwestern of

. Beside the Franconian Rezat the Aurach, a tributary of the

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flows through the community area. The following communities surround Windsbach (beginning north going clockwise direction): Rohr,

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Mitteleschenbach Mitteleschenbach is a municipality in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria in 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 ...

Wolframs-Eschenbach Wolframs-Eschenbach is a Town#Germany, town in the Ansbach (district), district of Ansbach, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 14 km southeast of Ansbach, and 36 km southwest of Nuremberg. Wolframs-Eschenbach, formerly named ''"Eschenb ...

, Lichtenau,

Neuendettelsau Neuendettelsau is a local authority in Middle Franconia, Germany. Neuendettelsau is situated 20 miles southwest of Nuremberg and 12 miles east of Ansbach. Since 1947 it has a Lutheran seminary ( ''Augustana Hochschule''). Politics The mayor is C ...

and

Heilsbronn Heilsbronn () is a town in the Ansbach district of the Mittelfranken administrative region of Franconia, in the German state of Bavaria between Nuremberg and Ansbach, in the wooded valley of the Rangau. Its hallmark is the ''Katharinenturm'', ...

Suburbs

Windsbach consists out of 29 suburbs:

Politics

* First mayor: Matthias Seitz (

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) * Second mayor: Norbert Kleinöder (Hinterland of Windsbach) * Third mayor: Karl Schuler (

)

City Council

The city council has (including the 1. Mayor) 21 members: (Status: Municipal Elections of 2 March 2008)

Famous institutions

Windsbach is famous for its high school, the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium, which is named after the composer

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

. It is one of the best schools in Bavaria and teaches among other things modern languages (English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, e. g.), old languages (Latin, Old Greek), maths, physics and chemistry (of course there are much more standard subjects like history, geography, biology, religious education, P.E., art e.g.) Windsbach is also the home of the Windsbach Boys Choir founded in 1946 and from 1978 to 2012 under the direction of

Karl-Friedrich Beringer Hans Karl-Friedrich Beringer (born 7 January 1948, in Neuendettelsau) is a German choral and orchestral conductor, who was from 1978 to 2011 the conductor of the Windsbacher Knabenchor. Life Born in Neuendettelsau, Beringer studied at the Meis ...

. The choir is one of the most renowned boy's choirs of the world.

Memberships

Windsbach is member in the following institutions and organisations:
German-American Society of West Middle Franconia e.V.

Regional Community Alliance "kommA"

References

External links

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Homepage of the Windsbach Boys Choir

Homepage of the Music School of Windsbach

Homepage of the Johann-Sebastian-Bach High School of Windsbach

Homepage of the Windsbach Fire Department
{{Authority control Ansbach (district)