NEUSTADT AN DER AISCH

'Neustadt an der Aisch' (Neustadt/A.) is a small town in the northern part of Bavaria (Germany), within the franconian administrative region Middle Franconia, and it is the capital of the German district Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim (Abbreviation on German car number plates is NEA). As of June 30, 2005, it has about 12,431 inhabitants. The current Mayoress is Claudia Platzoeder.

Contents

History

Town districts

Daughters and sons of Neustadt/A.

Honorary Citizens

Persons associated with Neustadt/A.

External links

History

In 741 for the first time Riedfeld, the towns root, was documented as the German king's court. However, it lasted until 1285 when the town's name is documented for the first time as "Nivenstadt".
At the end of the 12th century, Neustadt/A. became part of the sovereign territory of the burgraves of Nuremberg, the dynasty of the Hohenzollern. The house of the Hohenzollern developed Neustadt/A. to an economically, politically and also cultural centre of its region, mainly because of its favourable geographical position in the middle of the main trade route between Wuerzburg and Nuremberg.
At the end of the 15th century margrave Albrecht Achilles and Kurfürstin (Electress) Anna completed Neustadt/A. as a stronghold.
1553, in the Second Margrave War, the town was burnt down. Afterwards a long lasting phase of construction and extension began. This phase ended with the subversions of the Thirty Years' War. The rebuilding lasted several hundreds of years.
1791 through to 1806 Neustadt/A. was part of the sovereign territory of Prussia, then was military governed by the French, and in 1810 became finally part of the kingdom of Bavaria. The political importance of Neustadt/A. faded thereafter, but trade and industry kept stimulated due to the deployment of a garrison of the Uhlans, and 1865 due a connection to the prosperous railway's net.
At the end of the 20th century with the industrial revolution traditional hadcrafts (like brush-makers and makers of drawing instruments) almost completely vanished. With the resettlement of expellees from Sudetenland new handcraft industries were imported: constructions of music instruments and the textile industry flourished.
From 1969 through to 1980 in total 16 town districts were incorporated. In the course of a district's reform Neustadt/A. became capital of the newly formed German district Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim.
In the 1980s and 1990s the infrastructure was embellished on a grand scale: a beltway was built and a pedestrian area around the market place was established; the cultural program was extended and the picturesque Old Town was rehabilitated; new residential zones and business parks could be established

Town districts

★ Birkenfeld (including Weiherhof)

★ Diebach

★ Eggensee (including Chausseehaus)

★ Herrnneuses (incl. Oberstrahlbach)

★ Kleinerlbach

★ Obernesselbach

★ Unterschweinach

★ Oberschweinach (incl. Stöckach)

★ Schauerheim (incl. Hasenlohe and Virnsbergerhaag)

★ Schellert

★ Unternesselbach

Daughters and sons of Neustadt/A.

★ Rabbi Elias Levita (
★ 13. Februar 1469 in Neustadt an der Aisch oder Ipsheim; † 28. Januar 1549 in Venice; in fact ''Elia Ben Ascher Halevi''), translator, humanist, Hebrew grammarian, Yiddish writer

★ Johannes Gramann (also: ''Poliander'',
★ 5. Juli 1487; † 29. April 1541 in Königsberg), Protestant Reformer and poet of chants

★ Lazarus Nürnberger (
★ 1499; † ca. 1564 in Sevilla), merchant, in cooperation with Jacob and Hans Cromberger founder of the Deutschen Amerikahandel (German trade with America)

★ Johann Mützel (
★ 1647; † 1717), master builder of several castles in ernestinian principalities of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia (e.g. castle Ettersburg near Weimar), in the principalities Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Arnstadt, in Schlitz, and in Tann (Rhön); builder of the residence of Goethe in Weimar, of the Friedenskirche (church) in Jena and the Kreuzkirche (church) in Eisenach

★ Adolf Scherzer (
★ 1815; † 1864), composer of the bavarian defile-march

★ Dr. Werner Dollinger (
★ 10. Oktober 1918), German politician, member of the Bundestag (1953-1990), treasury secretary (1962-1966), minister of postal services and telecommunication (1966-1969), minister of transport (1982-1987)

★ Armin Schwarz (
★ 16. Juli 1963), German rally driver

Honorary Citizens

★ Georg Vogel (
★ 8. Oktober 1861; † 9. November 1933), mayor 1898-1912, delegate of the Bavarian parliament, since 14. April 1909

★ Andreas Schildknecht (
★ 7. Dezember 1864; † 4. November 1944), mayor 1913-1917, since 25. August 1936

★ Leonhard Bankel (
★ 18. May 1883; † 10. Juli 1974), mayor 1921-1945 and 1948-1960, since 19. April 1951

★ Dr. med. Max Döllner (
★ 31. March 1874; † 7. Januar 1959), Oberregierungsrat and Obermedizinalrat, documentarist of his coutry, since 26. März 1954

★ Dr. Werner Dollinger (
★ 10. Oktober 1918), German politician, since 10. October 1978

Persons associated with Neustadt/A.

★ Albrecht Achilles (
★ 9. November 1414 in Tangermünde; † 11. March 1486 in Frankfurt/Main), margrave and Elector

★ Kaspar Loener (
★ 1493 in Markt Erlbach; † 1546), Protestant Reformer in Hof

★ Peter Kolb (
★ 10. Oktober 1675 in Dörflas, today district of Marktredwitz; † 31. December 1726 in Neustadt an der Aisch), teacher and ethnologist

★ Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer (
★ 1740; † 1820), master joiner, builder of organs and other music instruments

★ Johann Leonhard Städtler (also: ''Stättler'';
★ 1758; † 1827), painter, copperplate engraver and restorer

★ Jean Paul (
★ 21. March 1763 in Wunsiedel; † 14. November 1825 in Bayreuth; in fact ''Johann Paul Friedrich Richter''), author

★ Dr. Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt (
★ 1791; † 1855), theologist (University of Erlangen) and writer

★ Dekan Friedrich Bauer (
★ 1803; † 1873), member of the Frankfurt Parliament, delegate of the Bavarian parliament

★ Hans W. Geißendörfer (
★ 6. April 1941 in Augsburg), film director, author and producer

★ Prof. Dr. Guido Knopp (
★ 29. Januar 1948 in Treysa, today's town district of Schwalmstadt), historian, author and journalist

★ Lissy Gröner (
★ 31. May 1954 in Langenfeld), German politician (SPD), MdEP (since 1989)
== Sister Towns ==

★ Montespertoli (Italy), since 1992 ★ Hino (Japan), since 1997 ★ Hluboká nad Vltavou (Frauenberg) (Czech Republic), since 1997 ★ Lipik (Croatia), since 1998 ★ working group Neustadt in Europa Member of the working group Neustadt in Europa, in which '34 towns' (in August-2005) with the name "Neustadt" from Germany, Austria, Hungaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia confederate.

External links

★ official home page of Neustadt/A.

★ Webcam of the market place

★ informations for genealogists in GenWiki