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.

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.

Ansbach is the largest district of Bavaria.

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.

# Sofie ( 10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz ), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica.

# Anna ( 5 May 1487, Ansbach – 7 February 1539 ), married on 1 December 1518 to Duke Wenceslaus II of Cieszyn.

# Elisabeth ( 25 March 1494, Ansbach – 31 May 1518, Pforzheim ), married in Pforzheim on 29 September 1510 to Margrave Ernest of Baden-Durlach.

# Barbara ( 24 September 1495, Ansbach – 23 September 1552 ), married in Plassenburg on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.

Following the abdication of the last Margrave, Charles Alexander, from the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on 2 December 1791 its territories became part of a Prussian province.

Caroline was born on 1 March 1683 at Ansbach, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach.

He retired on 1 January 1875, and died at Ansbach.

Then came Napoleon's contemptuous violation of Prussian territory by marching three French corps through Ansbach ; King Frederick William's pride overcame his weakness, and on November 3 he signed with Tsar Alexander I of Russia the terms of an ultimatum to be laid before the French emperor.

HRH Prince Henry was born on 7 November 1745 at Leicester House, London to Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, and his wife The Princess of Wales.

A French corps led by Marshal Bernadotte had illegally violated the neutrality of Ansbach in Prussian territory on their march to face the Austrians and Russians.

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 ).

On 21 April, the division moved to Ansbach and continued to advance, taking Eichstätt on the 25th, crossing the Danube at Ingolstadt on the 27th, securing the bridge over the Amper Canal, 29 April, crossing the Isar and reaching Mittel Isar Canal by the end of the month.

On the death of his father on 11 March 1486, his elder brothers Johann Cicero and Friedrich succeeded to Brandenburg and Ansbach respectively, and Siegmund succeeded to Bayreuth.

Frederick had become Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I in 1415, and on his death, on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided between his sons: Kulmbach ( Bayreuth ) went to the eldest, John " the Alchemist ", while the second, Frederick, received Brandenburg and Ansbach passed to the third son Albert Achilles.

Later the Margraves of Ansbach and the Counts of Schwarzenberg possessed important rights on the spot that became Bavarian in 1814.

File: Werwolf von Neuses. png | The Wolf of Ansbach, chased into a well and displayed on a gibbet

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.

Members included the Palatinate, Anhalt, Neuburg, Württemberg, Baden-Durlach, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Hesse-Kassel, Brandenburg, Ulm, Strasbourg and Nürnberg.

He spent time in Bamberg, Nürnberg and Ansbach before becoming professor of exegesis and church history at the University of Heidelberg ( 1811 – 44 ), where he was instrumental in hiring Hegel in 1816.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

# Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth ( 27 September 1481, Ansbach – 21 September 1527, Buda ).

# Margarete ( 10 January 1483, Ansbach – 10 July 1532 ).

# Georg " der Fromme " ( 4 March 1484, Ansbach – 27 December 1543, Ansbach ).

# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.

# Frederick ( 13 June 1491, Ansbach – ca.

# Frederick ( 17 January 1497, Ansbach – 20 August 1536, Genoa ), a canon in Würzburg and Salzburg.

# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.

# John Albert ( 20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle ), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.

# Gumprecht ( 16 July 1503, Ansbach – 25 June 1528, Naples ), a canon in Bamberg.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

* 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, English noble ( d. 1737 )

* 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.

* 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.