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The Principality or Margraviate of (Brandenburg) Ansbach (German: Fürstentum Ansbach or Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Ansbach) was a free imperial principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Franconian city of Ansbach.
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Il Principato di Ansbach o Brandeburgo-Ansbach fu un principato del Sacro Romano Impero, sviluppatosi attorno alla città bavarese di Ansbach. La casata regnante era un ramo remoto di quella degli Hohenzollern di Prussia, che qui aveva sede col titolo di margravio e di principe con diritto di voto al Reichstag .
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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 Suffix "-es" (a possessive ending, like "-'s" in English) and the Old High German expression "pah" or "bach" (for brook). The name of the city has slightly changed throughout the centuries ...
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). Gradual...
1877–1905: Ludwig Keller (1839–1911)1905–1919: Ernst Rohmeder1919–1934: Wilhelm Borkholder (1886–1945)1934–1945: Richard Hänel (NSDAP) (1895-date of death unknown)Margrave museumKaspar Hauser MonumentSt. Gumbertus and St. Johannischurches, both 15th centuryAnsbach has a transitional temperate-continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb/Dfb), with a small diurnal air temperature variationbetween day and night during winter, and with a moderate annual precipitation.
Around the time of the unification of Germany in 1871, the chief manufactures of Ansbach were woollen, cotton, and half-silk goods; earthenware; tobacco; cutlery; and playing cards. A considerable trade in grain, wool, and flax was also supported. By the onset of the First World War, it also produced machinery, toys, and embroidery. Today there is ...
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1. Elisabeth von Brandenburg-Ansbach(1451–1524), Princess of Brandenburg, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg 2. Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460–1536) Margrave of Ansbach & Margrave of Kulmbach 3. Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490–1568), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and the first duke of Prussia. 4. Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach(1663–1724), Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg-Winnental 5. Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737),...
Arts & science
1. Leonhart Fuchs(1501–1566), botanist and physician to margrave Georg Friedrich 2. Simon Marius (1573–1625), astronomer lived in Ansbach, he observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer, Galileo Galilei 3. Georg Ernst Stahl(1659–1734), chemist, physician and metallurgist. 4. Matthias Buchinger(1674–1740), a German artist, magician and illustrator, born without hands or legs 5. Johann Uz(1720–1796), a German poet. 6. Marcus Eliezer Bloch(17...
Sport
1. Helga Matschkur (born 1943), gymnast, competed in six events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. 2. Georg Volkert (1945–2020), footballer, played 410 games in Bundesliga and won 12 caps for West Germany 3. Sebastian Preiss(born 1981), handball player 4. Dominik Farnbacher(born 1984), racing driver 5. Alex King(born 1985), basketball player 6. Mario Farnbacher(born 1992), racing driver 7. Danilo Dittrich(born 1995), football player
Ansbach is twinnedwith: 1. Anglet, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France 2. Bay City, Michigan, United States 3. Fermo, Marche, Italy 4. Jingjiang, Jiangsu, China
In the novel The Schirmer Inheritance (1953) by Eric Ambler (1909–1998), Sergeant Franz Schirmer of the Ansbach Dragoons is wounded in the battle of Preussisch-Eylauin 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 descendant...
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2 apr 2024 · August, Graf von Platen (born Oct. 24, 1796, Ansbach, principality of Ansbach [Germany]—died Dec. 5, 1835, Syracuse, Sicily) was a German poet and dramatist who was almost unique among his contemporaries in aiming at classical purity of style; although he was schooled in the Romantic tradition, he opposed its undisciplined flamboyance.
Ansbach, fino al XVIII secolo denominata Onolzbach, è una città extracircondariale tedesca, capoluogo della Media Franconia, distretto governativo della Baviera.
