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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Mittelfranken

Elevation
  
438 m (1,437 ft)

Area
  
33.8 km²

Local time
  
Friday 10:01 PM

Administrative region
  
Middle Franconia

State
  
Bavaria

District
  
Ansbach

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
7,773 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
91564

University
  
Augustana Divinity School

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Weather
  
3°C, Wind NE at 6 km/h, 92% Humidity

Neuendettelsau is a local authority in Middle Franconia, Germany. Neuendettelsau is situated 20 miles southwest of Nuremberg and 12 miles east of Ansbach. Population: 7,535 (as at 31 December 2013). The city has three schools. Since 1947 it has a Lutheran seminary (Augustana Hochschule). It is connected by motorway A6.

Contents

Map of Neuendettelsau, Germany

Diakonie Neuendettelsau

Reverend Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872) founded in 1854 an institute for deaconesses. The Diakonie Neuendettelsau is one of today’s major independent Christian institutions for social welfare work in Germany and the biggest such enterprise in Bavaria. More than 5,800 employees at numerous institutions in Neuendettelsau and other regions all over Southern Germany and in other European countries take care of the people they are responsible for.

Politics

  • First mayor: Gerhard Korn (CSU)
  • Second mayor: Gottwald Dötzer (SPD)
  • Third mayor: Wernher Geistmann (CSU)
  • Sister city

  • Treignac (France), since 1996
  • Famous people

  • Karl-Friedrich Beringer, choirmaster of the Windsbacher Knabenchor de:Windsbacher Knabenchor
  • Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe, Lutheran pastor and theologian.
  • Walter Burkert, world-famous German scholar of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
  • Literature

  • Matthias Honold, Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): 700 Jahre Neuendettelsau, Neuendettelsau 1998.
  • Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): Unter Stroh- und Ziegeldächern. Aus der Neuendettelsauer Geschichte, Neuendettelsau 1982.
  • References

    Neuendettelsau Wikipedia