Ansbach

Ansbach is a city in the German state of Bavaria and the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. It lies on the river Fraenkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main, about 40 kilometres southwest of Nuremberg and 140 kilometres north of Munich. The English Wikipedia article gives its population as 41,681 in 2020. The place grew from an eighth-century Benedictine monastery and became the seat of the Hohenzollern family in 1331, later the home of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Its baroque Margrafen-Schloss castle was built between 1704 and 1738 and survived both World Wars without heavy damage. Today the city hosts a United States military base and the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences, and it is linked by the A6 autobahn, the B13 and B14 highways and the Nuremberg S-Bahn line S4.