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{{Infobox German place
|type = Stadt
|German_name = {{native name|vmf|Anschba}}
|image_photo = Ansbach, Martin-Luther-Platz-001.jpg
|image_caption = Martin Luther Square, [[St. Gumbertus, Ansbach|Church of St. Gumbertus]] in the background
|image_coa = DEU Ansbach COA.svg
|image_flag = Flagge Ansbach.svg
|coordinates = {{coord|49|18|N|10|35|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = 
|state = Bayern
|region = Middle Franconia
|district = urban
|elevation = 405
|area = 99.91
|postal_code = 91522
|area_code = 0981
|licence = AN
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 5 61 000
|website = [https://www.ansbach.de/ www.ansbach.de]
|mayor = Thomas Deffner<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der Oberbürgermeister in den kreisfreien Städten], accessed 19 July 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2020&ndash;26
|Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister
|party = CSU
}}
[[File:Ansbach, ehemaliges Gebäude des Gewerbevereins Ansbach DmD-5-61-000-113 foto11 2016-08-05 09.05.jpg|Former building Gewerbevereins Ansbach|thumb|280px]]
[[File:De Merian Frankoniae 108.jpg|thumb|280px|Ansbach in the 17th century]]

'''Ansbach''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|n|z|b|æ|k}} {{respell|ANZ|bak}}, {{IPA|de|ˈansbax|lang|De-Ansbach.ogg}}; {{langx |vmf|label=[[East Franconian German|East Franconian]]|Anschba}}) is a city in the [[Germany|German]] state of [[Bavaria]]. It is the capital of the [[Regierungsbezirk|administrative region]] of [[Mittelfranken|Middle Franconia]]. Ansbach is {{convert|25|mi|km|abbr=off|order=flip|sp=us}} southwest of [[Nuremberg]] and {{convert|90|mi|km|abbr=off|order=flip|sp=us}} north of [[Munich]], on the river [[Fränkische Rezat]], a tributary of the river [[Main (river)|Main]]. In 2020, its population was 41,681.

Developed in the 8th century as a [[Benedictine monastery]], it became the seat of the [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]] family in 1331. In 1460, the Margraves of [[Fürst und Markgraf von Ansbach|Brandenburg-Ansbach]] lived here. The city has a castle known as [[Markgrafenschloß|Margrafen–Schloss]], built between 1704 and 1738. It was not badly damaged during the [[World Wars]] and hence retains its original historical baroque sheen. Ansbach is now home to a US military base and to the [[Ansbach University of Applied Sciences]].

The city has connections via autobahn [[Bundesautobahn 6|A6]] and highways [[Bundesstraße 13|B13]] and [[Bundesstraße 14|B14]]. [[Ansbach station]] is on the [[Nuremberg–Crailsheim railway|Nürnberg–Crailsheim]] and [[Treuchtlingen–Würzburg railway|Treuchtlingen–Würzburg]] railways and a Station of line S4 of the [[Nuremberg S-Bahn]].

==Name origin==
'''Ansbach''' was originally called '''Onoltesbach''' (about 790 AD), a term composed of three parts.

The individual word elements are "Onold" (the city founder's name), the [[Suffix]] "-es" (a possessive ending, like "-'s" in English) and the [[Old High German]] expression "pah" or "bach" (for [[Stream|brook]]). The name of the city has slightly changed throughout the centuries into '''Onoltespah''' (837 AD), '''Onoldesbach''' (1141 AD), '''Onoldsbach''' (1230 AD), '''Onelspach''' (1338 AD), '''Onsbach''' (1508 AD) and finally '''Ansbach''' (1732 AD).<ref>Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CBTv-Jl3DkYC Lexikon fränkischer Ortsnamen]'' (eng: "Lexicon to franconian toponymy"), [[Verlag C. H. Beck]], Munich 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-406-59131-0}}. (in German)</ref><ref>Heinz Bischof, Wilhelm Sturmfels: ''Unsere Ortsnamen. Im ABC erklärt nach Herkunft und Bedeutung'' (eng: "Names of our towns. A Guide to name origins and significance"), Dümmler Verlag, [[Rastatt]] 1961, (in German)</ref>

It was also formerly known as '''Anspach'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/tafeln/knoe02/knoe02_02.jpg |title=Anspach-Baireuth |access-date=2016-02-21 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023823/http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/tafeln/knoe02/knoe02_02.jpg |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
According to folklore, towards the end of the 7th century a group of Franconian peasants and their families went up into the wilderness to found a new settlement. Their leader Onold led them to an area called the "Rezattal" (Rezat valley). This is where they founded the "Urhöfe" (meaning the first farms: Knollenhof, Voggenhof and Rabenhof). Gradually more settlers, such as the "Winden-Tribe" came, and the farms grew into a small village. Many villages around Ansbach were founded by the "Winden" during that period (even today, their settlements can easily identified by their names, like Meinhardswinden, Dautenwinden or Brodswinden). A [[Benedictine Order|Benedictine monastery]] was established there around 748 by the [[Franks|Frankish]] noble [[Gondelbert|St&nbsp;Gumbertus]]. The adjoining village of Onoltesbach was first noticed as a proper town in 1221.<ref>Werner Bürger: ''Heimatgeschichte der Stadt Ansbach'' (eng: "The history of Ansbach"), Oldenburg Verlag, [[Munich]] 1990, (in German)</ref>

The counts of [[County of Öttingen|Öttingen]] ruled over Ansbach until the [[Hohenzollern]] burgrave of [[Burgraviate of Nürnberg|Nürnberg]] took over in 1331. The Hohenzollerns made Ansbach the seat of their dynasty until their acquisition of the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] in 1415. After the 1440 death of [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick&nbsp;I]], a cadet branch of the family established itself as the [[Brandenburg-Ansbach|margraves of Ansbach]]. [[George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|George the Pious]] introduced the [[Protestant Reformation]] to Ansbach in 1528, leading to [[St. Gumbertus, Ansbach|Gumbertus Abbey's]] secularization in 1563.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

The [[Markgrafenschloß]] was built between 1704 and 1738.<ref name="Spaltro2005">{{cite book|last1= Spaltro |first1= Kathleen |last2= Bridge |first2= Noeline |display-authors=1 |title= Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUOzgLiyd54C&pg=PA262 |access-date=16 September 2012 |year=2005 |publisher= iUniverse |isbn=9780595373123 |page=262}}</ref> Its gardens continued to be a notable attraction into the 1800s.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} In 1791, the last margrave sold his realm to the [[Kingdom of Prussia]].{{sfnp|EB|1878}} In 1796, the [[Palatine Zweibrücken|Duke of Zweibrücken]], [[Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria|Maximilian Joseph]] — the future Bavarian king— was exiled to Ansbach the French took Zweibrücken. In Ansbach, [[Maximilian von Montgelas]] wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organization of Bavaria, which is known as the Ansbacher Mémoire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdbg.de/montgelas/pages/hmv33.htm|title=Montgelas}}</ref> Napoleon forced Prussia to cede Ansbach and its principality to [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]]{{sfnp|EB|1878}} in the [[Treaty of Schönbrunn (1805)|Franco-Prussian treaty of alliance]] signed at [[Schönbrunn Palace]] on 15 December 1805 at the end of the [[Third Coalition]]. Ansbach became the capital of the {{lang|de|[[Rezatkreis]]}} ('Circle of the [[Franconian Rezat|Rezat]]'). Bavarian ownership was confirmed by the 1815 [[Congress of Vienna]];{{sfnp|EB|1878}} Prussia was compensated with the Bavarian [[Duchy of Berg]].{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} In 1837 the {{lang|de|Rezatkreis}} became the circle of Middle Franconia. Following the [[unification of Germany]] Ansbach had a population of 12,635.{{Sfnp|EB|1878}}

Jewish families were resident in Ansbach from at least the end of the 18th century. They set up a Jewish Cemetery in the Ruglaender Strasse, which was vandalised and razed under the Nazi regime in the [[Kristallnacht]]. It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more. A plaque on the wall of the cemetery commemorates these events. The Jewish Congregation built its synagogue at No 3 Rosenbadstrasse, but it too was damaged by the SA, though it was not burnt down for fear of damaging the neighbouring buildings. It serves today as a "Symbolic House of God". A plaque in the entrance serves as a memorial to the synagogue and to Jewish residents who were murdered during the Holocaust.{{citation needed|date=January 2017|reason=German Wikipedia is not a reliable source}} In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach [''Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic''] to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the [[Action T4]] euthanasia action. They were gassed there. At the clinic in Ansbach itself, around 50 intellectually disabled children were injected with the drug [[Phenobarbital|Luminal]] and killed that way. A plaque was erected in their memory in 1988 in the local hospital at No. 38 Feuchtwangerstrasse.{{citation needed|date=January 2017|reason=German Wikipedia is not a reliable source}}

During [[World War II]], a subcamp of [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]] was located here.<ref>[http://www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html Christine O'Keefe. ''Concentration Camps.'']</ref> Also during the Second World War the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht had bases here. The nearby airbase was the home station for the Stab & I/KG53 (Staff & 1st Group of Kampfgeschwader 53) operating 38 [[Heinkel He 111]] bombers. On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the [[Invasion of Poland|attack on Poland]] that started the war. All of its bridges were destroyed during the course of the war. During the [[Western Allied invasion of Germany]] in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the [[United States Third Army]], and used by the [[USAAF]] [[354th Fighter Wing|354th Fighter Group]] which flew [[P-47 Thunderbolts]] from the aerodrome (designated [[Advanced Landing Ground|ALG R-82]]) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9966 |title=Factsheets: 354 Operations Group (PACAF) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104172433/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9966 |archive-date=2013-01-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skylighters.org/history/airfields |title=Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: USAAF Airfields in the ETO |access-date=2008-11-04|archive-date=2008-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204033026/http://www.skylighters.org/history/airfields/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eucmh.com/2008/08/10/aaf-airfields-fr-be-nl-lu-deprocessing/ |title=AAF Airfields |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106021147/http://www.eucmh.com/2008/08/10/aaf-airfields-fr-be-nl-lu-deprocessing/ |archive-date=2009-01-06 }}</ref> At the end of the war, 19-year-old student [[Robert Limpert]] tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight. He was betrayed by [[Hitler Youth]] and was hanged from the portal of the City Hall by the city's military commander, Col. (''Oberst'') Ernst Meyer. Several memorials to his heroic deed have been erected over the years, despite opposition from some residents — in the Ludwigskirche, in the Gymnasium Carolinum and at No 6 Kronenstrasse.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation. |publisher=Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung |isbn=978-3-89331-208-5 |edition=Band 1 |location=Bonn |pages=113 |language=de}}</ref> After the Second World War, Ansbach belonged to the American Zone. The American Military authorities established a displaced persons (DP) camp in what used to be a sanatorium in what is today the Strüth quarter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Strüth – Der Kinder-Kibbuz von Ansbach – Jüdische DP Lager und Gemeinden in Westdeutschland |url=https://www.after-the-shoah.org/strueth-der-kinder-kibbuz-von-ansbach/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |language=de-DE}}</ref>

[[Bachwoche Ansbach]] has been held in Ansbach since 1947. Since 1970, Ansbach has enlarged its municipal area by incorporating adjacent communities. Ansbach hosts several units of the U.S. armed forces, associated with German units under [[NATO]]. There are five separate U.S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to [[412th Aviation Support Battalion]], Katterbach Kaserne, formerly the home of the [[1st Infantry Division (United States)|1st Infantry Division's]] [[4th Combat Aviation Brigade]], also home of 501st M.I. Bn and 501st Avn Bn. which has been replaced by the [[12th Combat Aviation Brigade (United States)|12th Combat Aviation Brigade]] as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to [[Fort Riley]], Kansas; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Theater, barracks, Von Steuben Community Center, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing, and Urlas, which hosts the [[Post Exchange]] as well as a housing area opened in 2010. Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the [[1st Armored Division (United States)]] from 1972 to the early 1990s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100423213040/http://www.ridinthewave.com/thinkytees/1stArmorDivision.html A Summary History of the 1st Armored Division]</ref>

On 24 July 2016, [[2016 Ansbach bombing|a bomb was detonated]] in a restaurant in the city, killing only the bomber himself and injuring few people. The perpetrator was reported to be a Syrian refugee whose asylum application had been rejected but who had been given exceptional leave to remain until the security situation in Syria returned to a safe condition. Witnesses reported he had tried to enter a nearby music festival but had been turned away, before detonating his device outside a nearby wine bar.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article157265491/27-Jaehriger-sprengt-sich-in-die-Luft-zwoelf-Verletzte.html |title=Seehofer fordert Überprüfung aller Flüchtlinge |first=Robert|last=Tannenberg|newspaper=Die Welt |date=26 July 2016 |via=Welt Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36880758|title=Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany|work=BBC News}}</ref>

==Boroughs==
*[[Eyb bei Ansbach]], part of Ansbach since 1 October 1970
*[[Bernhardswinden]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
*[[Brodswinden]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
*[[Claffheim]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
*[[Elpersdorf bei Ansbach]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
*[[Hennenbach]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
*[[Neuses bei Ansbach]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
**[[Strüth (Ansbach)|Strüth]]
**[[Wasserzell (Ansbach)|Wasserzell]]
*[[Schalkhausen]], part of Ansbach since 1 July 1972
**[[Geisengrund]]
**[[Dornberg (Ansbach)|Dornberg]]
**[[Neudorf (Ansbach)|Neudorf]]
**[[Steinersdorf]]

==Lord mayors==
* 1877–1905: Ludwig Keller (1839–1911) 
* 1905–1919: Ernst Rohmeder
* 1919–1934: Wilhelm Borkholder (1886–1945)
* 1934–1945: Richard Hänel ([[Nazi Party|NSDAP]]) (1895-date of death unknown)
* 1945: Hans Schregle (1890–1970), ([[SPD Bavaria|SPD]]), introduced by the [[Office of Military Government, United States]]
* 1945–1950: Ernst Körner (SPD)
* 1950–1952: Friedrich Böhner
* 1952–1957: Karl Burkhardt ([[Christian Social Union in Bavaria|CSU]])
* 1957–1971: Ludwig Schönecker (CSU)
* 1971–1990: Ernst-Günther Zumach (CSU) (1926–2012)
* 1990–2008: Ralf Felber (SPD)
* 2008-2020: Carda Seidel ([[Independent politician|independent]])
* since May 2020: Thomas Deffner (CSU)

==Sights==
* [[Residenz Ansbach|Castle of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach]]
* [[Museum Retti Palais]]
* Margrave museum
* Kaspar Hauser Monument
* [[St. Gumbertus, Ansbach|St. Gumbertus]] and [[St. Johannis, Ansbach|St. Johannis]] churches, both 15th century
* [[Theater Ansbach]]
* Ansbacher Kammerspiele
* LOFT – projectspace for contemporary art

==Climate==
Ansbach has a transitional [[Temperate climate|temperate]]-[[continental climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]]: ''[[Oceanic climate|Cfb]]''/''[[Humid continental climate|Dfb]]''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php?s=55701&cityname=Ansbach-Bavaria-Germany|title=Ansbach, Germany Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)}}</ref> with a small [[diurnal air temperature variation]] between day and night during winter, and with a moderate annual precipitation.

{{Weather box
|location = [[Hennenbach]], Ansbach (1991-2020)
|single line = Yes
|metric first = Yes
| Jan mean C  =0.1
| Feb mean C  =0.8
| Mar mean C  =4.4
| Apr mean C  =8.9
| May mean C  =13.2
| Jun mean C  =16.6
| Jul mean C  =18.4
| Aug mean C  =18.0
| Sep mean C  =13.5
| Oct mean C  =8.9
| Nov mean C  =4.1
| Dec mean C  =0.9
| year mean C =
| precipitation colour  = green
| Jan precipitation mm  =48.2
| Feb precipitation mm  =42.3
| Mar precipitation mm  =45.9
| Apr precipitation mm  =35.8
| May precipitation mm  =64.1
| Jun precipitation mm  =65.5
| Jul precipitation mm  =72.5
| Aug precipitation mm  =60.8
| Sep precipitation mm  =47.2
| Oct precipitation mm  =54.3
| Nov precipitation mm  =50.5
| Dec precipitation mm  =54.3
| year precipitation mm =
| Jan sun  =50.9
| Feb sun  =81.1
| Mar sun  =131.8
| Apr sun  =187.1
| May sun  =215.8
| Jun sun  =225.7
| Jul sun  =239.2
| Aug sun  =225.5
| Sep sun  =163.6
| Oct sun  =108.9
| Nov sun  =52.1
| Dec sun  =40.8
| year sun =

|source 1 = ''[[Deutscher Wetterdienst]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lufttemperatur: vieljährige Mittelwerte 1991 - 2020 |url=https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/klimadatendeutschland/mittelwerte/temp_9120_SV_html.html?view=nasPublication&nn=771428 |website=dwd.de |publisher=Deutscher Wetterdienst |access-date=23 February 2024|no-pp=y |language=German |trans-title=Air Temperature: Long-term averages for 1991-2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/klimadatendeutschland/mittelwerte/nieder_9120_SV_html.html?view=nasPublication&nn=771428 |title=Niederschlag: vieljährige Mittelwerte 1991 - 2020 |access-date=23 February 2024|website=dwd.de |publisher=Deutscher Wetterdienst |no-pp=y |language=German |trans-title=Precipitation: Long-term averages for 1991-2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/klimadatendeutschland/mittelwerte/sonne_9120_SV_html.html?view=nasPublication&nn=771428 |title=Sonnenscheindauer: vieljährige Mittelwerte 1991 - 2020 |website=dwd.de |publisher=Deutscher Wetterdienst |access-date=23 February 2024 |no-pp=y |language=German |trans-title=Sunshine: Long-term averages for 1991-2020}}</ref>

}}

== Demography ==
{{historical populations
|1840|15789
|1871|16642
|1900|21877
|1925|26412
|1939|32334
|1950|42443
|1961|41352
|1970|40358
|1987|36970
|2011|39491
|2012|39684
|2013|39839
|2014|40010
|2015|41159
|2016|41532
|2017|41652
|2018|41487
|2019|41798
|2020|41681
|2022|42221
|source = Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik<ref name="Statistik Bayern">
{{cite web
|url= https://www.statistik.bayern.de/mam/produkte/statistik_kommunal/2021/09561.pdf
|publisher= Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik
|title= statistik.bayern.de
|year= 2021
|language= de
}}
Retrieved on 30 September 2023.
</ref>
|date=September 2023
}}

==Economy==
Around the time of the [[unification of Germany]] in 1871, the chief manufactures of Ansbach were [[woolens|woollen]], [[textiles|cotton]], and half-[[silk]] goods; [[earthenware]]; [[tobacco]]; [[cutlery]]; and [[playing cards]]. A considerable trade in grain, [[wool]], and [[flax]] was also supported.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} By the onset of the [[First World War]], it also produced [[machinery]], [[toy]]s, and [[embroidery]].{{sfnp|EB|1911}}

Today there is a large density of [[plastics industry]] in the city and rural districts around Ansbach.<ref>[http://www.wifoe-landkreis-ansbach.de/Kompetenzregion/Kompetenz-Kunststoff.html ''website of the Ansbach economic forum''] (in German)</ref>

The city is known for making [[Peperami]] pork sausages and jerky.

== Transport ==

Ansbach lies on the [[Treuchtlingen-Würzburg railway]]. The nearest airport is [[Nuremberg Airport]], located {{convert|81|km|0|abbr=on}} about an hour drive north east of Ansbach. [[Munich Airport]] is also located {{convert|196|km|0|abbr=on}} which is a 2 hour drive south east of the city.

==Notable people==
[[File:Style of Michael Dahl - Queen Caroline - Warwick Shire Hall.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Caroline of Ansbach]], {{Circa|1730}}]]
[[File:Kaspar hauser.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Kaspar Hauser]] 1828/1829]]

===Public service ===
* [[Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1451–1524)|Elisabeth von Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (1451–1524), Princess of Brandenburg, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg
* [[Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (1460–1536), [[Margrave of Ansbach]] & [[Principality of Bayreuth|Margrave of Kulmbach]]
* [[Albert, Duke of Prussia]] (1490–1568), Grand Master of the [[Teutonic Order]] and the first duke of [[Duchy of Prussia|Prussia]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Albert (grand master) |volume= 1 |page=497 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (1663–1724), Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, by marriage Duchess of Württemberg-Winnental
* [[Caroline of Ansbach]] (1683–1737), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, wife of [[George II of Great Britain]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Caroline |volume= 5 |page=380 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander]] (1736–1806), the last [[Principality of Ansbach|Margrave of Ansbach]]
* [[Karl Heinrich Lang|Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang]] (1764–1835), a historian and statesman, lived mainly in Ansbach.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Lang, Karl Heinrich |volume= 16 |last= Hashagen |first= Justus |author-link= |pages=171-172 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Moritz von Spies|Moritz Ritter von Spies]] (1805–1862), Bavarian Major General and War Minister
* [[John James Maximilian Oertel]] (1811–1882), a [[Lutheran]] [[clergyman]], converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] and moved to the United States
* [[Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker]] (1811–1886), a historian and politician, died in Ansbach.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Duncker, Maximilian Wolfgang |volume= 8 |pages=671-672 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Kaspar Hauser]] (1812–1833), lived in Ansbach from 1830 to 1833, stabbed in the [[Ansbach Residence|palace gardens]]
* [[Henry Hochheimer]] (1818–1912), rabbi
* [[George H. Brickner]] (1834–1904), U.S. Representative from [[Wisconsin]]
* [[Pinchas Kohn]] (1867–1941), was the last rabbi of Ansbach. He was the rabbinical advisor to the German occupying forces of Poland in the First World War and was also one of the founders of the [[World Agudath Israel]] movement
* [[Theodor Endres]] (1876–1956), General of the Artillery
* [[Wilhelm Adam]] (1893–1978), Colonel General
* [[Hermann Fegelein]] (1906–1945), General of the [[Waffen-SS]], was married to the sister of [[Eva Braun]]
* [[Waldemar Fegelein]] (1912–2000), officer in the [[Waffen-SS]]
* [[Amélie Jakobovits]] (née Munk, 1928–2010), wife of [[Immanuel Jakobovits]], Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
* [[Walter Brandmüller]] (born 1929), theologian and historian, president of the [[Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences]]
* [[Manfred Ach]] (born 1940), politician, from 1994 to 2008 Member of the Bavarian Parliament

[[File:Wilhelm Hecht - Holzschneider und Radierer.jpg|thumb|140px|Caricature portrait of [[Wilhelm Hecht]], c. 1890]]
[[File:Escherich, Theodor.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Theodor Escherich]], c. 1900]]

=== Arts & science ===
* [[Leonhart Fuchs]] (1501–1566), botanist and physician to margrave Georg Friedrich
* [[Simon Marius]] (1573–1625), astronomer lived in Ansbach, he observed [[Jupiter]]'s moons from the castle's tower, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer, [[Galileo Galilei]]
* [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] (1659–1734), chemist, physician and metallurgist.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Stahl, Georg Ernest |volume= XVIII | page= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Matthias Buchinger]] (1674–1740), a German artist, magician and illustrator, born without hands or legs
* [[Johann Uz]] (1720–1796), a German poet.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Uz, Johann Peter |volume= 27 |pages=828-829 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Marcus Eliezer Bloch]] (1723–1799), ichthyologist.<ref>{{cite EB9 |wstitle = Bloch, Mark Eliezer |volume= III | page= | short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Georg Christian Oeder]] (1728–1791), [[Carl Linnaeus|pre-Linnean]] botanist
* [[Ludwig Förster|Ludwig von Förster]] (1792–1863), architect: Ringstrasse, 3 & synagogues in Vienna and Budapest
* [[August von Platen-Hallermünde]] (1796–1835), poet.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Platen-Hallermund, August, Graf von |volume= 21 |pages=804-805 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Georges Oberhaeuser]] (1798–1868), optician
* [[Oskar von Redwitz|Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz]] (1823–1891), a poet from nearby [[Lichtenau, Bavaria|Lichtenau]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Redwitz, Oskar, Freiherr von |volume= 22 |page=972 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold]] (1828–1901), lichenologist and taxonomist
* [[Wilhelm Hecht]] (1843–1920), wood engraver and etcher
* [[Fritz Hommel]] (1854–1936), orientalist
* [[Theodor Escherich]] (1857–1911), pediatrician and bacteriologist
* [[Max Westenhöfer]] (1871–1957), pathologist, professor at the [[University of Berlin]] and the [[University of Chile]]. Proposed the [[Aquatic ape hypothesis]]
* [[Herbert Blendinger]] (1936–2020), violinist and composer

[[File:Georg Volkert (1977).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Georg Volkert]], 1977]]

===Sport ===
* [[Helga Matschkur]] (born 1943), gymnast, competed in six events at the [[1968 Summer Olympics]].
* [[Georg Volkert]] (1945–2020), footballer, played 410 games in Bundesliga and won 12 caps for [[Germany national football team|West Germany]]
* [[Sebastian Preiss]] (born 1981), handball player
* [[Dominik Farnbacher]] (born 1984), racing driver
* [[Alex King (basketball)|Alex King]] (born 1985), basketball player
* [[Mario Farnbacher]] (born 1992), racing driver
* [[Danilo Dittrich]] (born 1995), football player

==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}
Ansbach is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Ansbach weltweit|url=https://www.ansbach.de/B%C3%BCrger/Rathaus-Service/St%C3%A4dtepartnerschaften|website=ansbach.de|publisher=Ansbach|language=de|access-date=2020-11-04}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Anglet]], [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]], [[France]]
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Bay City, Michigan|Bay City]], [[Michigan]], [[United States]]
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Fermo]], [[Marche]], [[Italy]]
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Jingjiang]], [[Jiangsu]], [[China]]

==In popular culture==
In the novel ''[[The Schirmer Inheritance]]'' (1953) by [[Eric Ambler]] (1909–1998), Sergeant Franz Schirmer of the Ansbach Dragoons is wounded in the battle of [[Battle of Eylau|Preussisch-Eylau]] in 1807. He returns to Ansbach to settle but changes his name as he has been posted as a deserter. The bulk of the novel concerns efforts by an American law firm to trace his descendants to claim an inheritance.

==See also==
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* [[Wolf of Ansbach]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite EB9 |mode=cs2 |wstitle=Ansbach |volume=2  |ref={{harvid|EB|1878}} |page=91 }}
* {{cite EB1911 |mode=cs2 |wstitle=Ansbach |volume=2 |ref={{harvid|EB|1911}} |page=81}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Ansbach}}
{{NIE Poster|year=1905|Ansbach}}
*{{Official website}} (German, English, French)
*[https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ansbach.htm Ansbach information]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117194840/http://www.ansbach.army.mil/ US Army Garrison Ansbach – Ansbach Military Community]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080413115048/http://www2.fh-ansbach.de/ Ansbach University of Applied Sciences]

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