Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat ( Rezat River ), a tributary of the Main river.

Ansbach is location of the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences.

Ansbach station is on the Nürnberg – Crailsheim and Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railways and is the terminus of line S4 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn.

In Ansbach Maximilian von Montgelas wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavaria, which is known as the " Ansbacher Mémoire ".

Ansbach is twinned with:

The region is nowadays mainly represented by the administrative districts of Lower Franconia ( Unterfranken, capital city Würzburg ), Middle Franconia ( Mittelfranken, capital city Ansbach ), and Upper Franconia ( Oberfranken, capital city Bayreuth ) in Bavaria.

The administrative seat is Ansbach but the most populated city is Nuremberg.

Ansbach is a district in Bavaria, Germany.

It is surrounding, but not including the city of Ansbach ; nonetheless the administrative seat of the district is Ansbach.

It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts of Ansbach, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Eichstätt, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Aichach-Friedberg, Augsburg and Dillingen, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg ( districts of Heidenheim and Ostalbkreis ).

The source of the Altmühl is located close to the city of Ansbach.

It is bounded by ( from the east and clockwise ) the cities of Fürth and Nuremberg, and by the districts of Roth, Ansbach, Neustadt ( Aisch )- Bad Windsheim and Erlangen-Höchstadt.

It is bounded by ( from the west and clockwise ) the districts of Würzburg, Kitzingen, Bamberg, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Fürth and Ansbach, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg ( district Main-Tauber ).

It is bounded by ( from the northeast and clockwise ) the districts of Nürnberger Land, Neumarkt, Eichstätt, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Ansbach and Fürth, and the cities of Schwabach and Nuremberg.

* 1769: The University at Erlangen is given the new name of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in honour of Alexander, Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth.

Hennenbach is a district of the town of Ansbach in Bavaria, Germany.

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.

The largest cities in Bavarian Franconia are Nuremberg, Würzburg, Fürth, Erlangen, Bayreuth, Bamberg, Aschaffenburg, Schweinfurt, Hof, Coburg, Ansbach and Schwabach.

Category: People from Ansbach ( district )

The district of Ansbach was established in 1972, when the former districts of Ansbach, Dinkelsbühl, Feuchtwangen and Rothenburg were merged.

Neighboring districts are ( from north clockwise ) Main-Tauber, the Bavarian district Ansbach, Ostalbkreis, Rems-Murr and Hohenlohe.

Category: People from Ansbach ( district )

Category: People from Ansbach ( district )

* Burk, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany

* Neukirchen bei Ansbach, a part of Sachsen bei Ansbach in the Ansbach district

Category: People from Ansbach ( district )

Now it belongs to the district of Ansbach, north of Aalen.

Category: Ansbach ( district )

Incorporated in 1338, it lies 32 km east of Schwäbisch Hall and 40 km southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district.

Category: Ansbach ( district )

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach ,( Onz ’ s-bach or -“ brook ”) also known initially as Anspach, a city in Bavaria, Germany.

In 1806 Prussia ceded Ansbach and the Principality of Ansbach to Bavaria in exchange for the Bavarian duchy of Berg.

Region of Nuremberg, Ansbach, Kulmbach and Bayreuth, ( Franconia and Bavaria, Germany )

This and a number of geographical references have resulted in the present-day Wolframs-Eschenbach, previously Obereschenbach, near Ansbach in Bavaria, being officially designated as his birthplace.

Neighboring districts are ( from north-west clockwise ) Miltenberg, Main-Spessart, Würzburg, Neustadt ( Aisch )- Bad Windsheim and Ansbach ( all in Bavaria ), and the districts of Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohe and Neckar-Odenwald.

* The former name of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany

* Höchstetten, Germany, in the municipality of Ansbach, Bavaria

Already in 1796, when the Duke of Zweibrücken ( after the French advance towards Zweibrücken ) was a landless prince exiled in Ansbach, Montgelas had developed a masterplan for the future modernisation of Bavaria.

This convention was modified in a formal treaty two months later, with one clause in effect promising to give Hanover to Prussia in exchange for Ansbach being awarded to France's ally, Bavaria.

In addition, on 15 March 1806 Napoleon elevated his brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat to become ruler of the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves ( acquired from Bavaria in return for its receiving Ansbach ).

He traveled to Ansbach in Bavaria and Brühl near Cologne in 1734-1735.

In the spring of 1806, the Stein publishing house sent to the bookselling establishment of Stage in Augsburg a pamphlet ( presumably written by Philipp Christian Yelin in Ansbach ) entitled Deutschland in seiner tiefen Erniedrigung (" Germany in her deep humiliation "), which strongly attacked Napoleon and the behaviour of the French troops in Bavaria.

Centered on the town of Eichstätt, it was located in the present-day state of Bavaria, somewhat to the west of Regensburg, to the north of Neuburg an der Donau and Ingolstadt, to the south of Nuremberg, and to the southeast of Ansbach.

His father had changed his name from Pfeiffer when he immigrated around 1800 from Ansbach, Bavaria.