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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Stuttgart

Elevation
  
503 m (1,650 ft)

Area
  
118.6 km²

Local time
  
Friday 1:19 PM

Administrative region
  
Stuttgart

State
  
Baden-Württemberg

District
  
Ostalbkreis

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
8,079 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
73450

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Weather
  
8°C, Wind E at 19 km/h, 82% Humidity

Neresheim is a town in the Ostalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northeast of Heidenheim, and 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Aalen. It's the home of the famous Neresheim Abbey, which still hosts monks, was Reichsfrei until the German Mediatisation and was built by Balthasar Neumann.

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Map of 73450 Neresheim, Germany

Neresheim is listed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, along with 95 other sites of battles won by the French army.

Born in Neresheim

  • Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the Oscar Mayer meat production company, was born in Kösingen, today a borough of Neresheim.
  • Andreas Zeyer (born 1968), retired German football player
  • Michael Zeyer (born 1968), retired German football player
  • Karl Bonhoeffer (1868–1948), psychiatrist and neurologist, father of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • References

    Neresheim Wikipedia