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During the district and area reform in 1972, the district of Erlangen was united with the district of Höchstadt an der Aisch. Erlangen itself remained an independent town and became the seat of the new administrative district.
Erlangen, city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the junction of the Schwabach and Regnitz rivers, just north of Nürnberg. Founded in the 8th century, Erlangen was transferred from the bishopric of Würzburg to that of Bamberg in 1017 and then was sold to the king of Bohemia in
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Erlangen is a medium-sized town in the Middle Franconia region of Bavaria situated to the north of Nuremberg. It is probably best-known for its university, which is the second-largest in Bavaria, and for being the headquarters to a number of divisions of the German conglomerate Siemens. View over Erlangen The town is also famous for its annual beer...
Nearest airport to Erlangen
The airport at Nuremberg is little more than a bus ride away from Erlangen, so if a suitable flight and provider can be found from the limited choice available it makes the best sense to use the more local option. Distance to Nuremberg Airport:14km Distance to Munich Airport:180km Distance to Erfurt-Weimar Airport: 211km Distance to Frankfurt Airport: 217km Otherwise the massive choice of flights available and the good transport connections make Munich the best choice, with Frankfurt an excel...
Train station in Erlangen
The train station in Erlangen is a short walk to the west of the town centre and the market square. There are regular local rail and S-Bahn services south to Nuremberg and Erlangen is on the main line north to Bamberg.
Much of Erlangen's hotel accommodation is within a short walk of the historic town centre and the train station, although there are some out towards the nearby A73 motorway for those who are looking for a convenient base with a car.
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Erlangen was designed in the baroque style and is very much a 'planned community' of the 18th century. However settlements in the Regnitz valley have been found from various Stone Age periods. The first mention of Erlangen as a community is in the 11th century but the town only received its charter in 1398 and remained a relatively unimportant back...
The 1500 French Protestant refugees - called 'Huguenots' - who arrived in Erlangen in the 17th century were escaping decades of increasing oppression by the Catholic powers in France. This started with a series of massacres across the country, the best-known of which is probably the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, at the end of the 16th cen...
The Erlangen tourist office is located near the railway station in the centre of town. It is open from Monday to Friday and from 10.00-14.00 on Saturdays.
Situated at the heart of Franconia, the smallest major city in Bavaria reveals, at pretty much every turn, why it's worth a visit. Separate to the small Medieval town of Alt-Erlang, Margrave Christian Ernst had the new town Christian Erlang built for the French Huguenots in the 17th century.
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Until 1822, the service was held in French – even though its attendees had long since become an integral part of Franconia. "That lasted about three generations, and we Mengins already had a German first name – Erich,” explains the parish secretary.
When Erlangen became part of Bavaria in the first years of the 19th century, all universities in Franconia were to be shut down in favor of the universities of "Old Bavaria". But someone pointed out that Erlangen had a unique selling point no other university in the new kingdom had: an evangelical theological faculty.
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