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Rothenburg has an area of 15.5 km 2 (6.0 sq mi). Of this area, 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). [3] In the 1997 land survey, 16.56% of the total land area was forested. Of ...
Rothenburg ob der Tauber (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːtn̩bʊʁk ʔɔp deːɐ̯ ˈtaʊbɐ] ⓘ) is a town in the district of Ansbach of Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia), the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
The district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) was a Prussian district which existed from 1816 to 1947. Today, the territory of the district is split between Germany and Poland by the Lusatian Neisse . When it was founded, there were two towns in the district, Muskau in the north and Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) in the south.
The Franciscan Friary of Rothenburg ob der Tauber (German: Franziskanerkloster Rothenburg o.d. Tauber) is a former friary of the Conventual Franciscans in the town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria in the diocese of Bamberg. Nowadays the former Franciscan church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. [1]
The Albrecht of Rothenburg ob der Tauber was a patrician family, many of whose members occupied administrative offices in both the Interior and Exterior Councils that governed the Imperial Free City of Rothenburg ob der Tauber during the second half of the Holy Roman Empire.
From 1816 until 1945 it was the seat of the district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) in the province of Silesia. In 1882, a volunteer fire department was founded. [8] In the late 19th century, the inhabitants were mostly employed in pottery, tile production and farming. [5] In 1907, a rail connection from Horka via Rothenburg to Przewóz was opened. [8]
Rothenberg lies at elevations between 200 and 500 m in the southern Odenwald in the Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald, 7 km north of Hirschhorn on the Neckar.The main centre lies in the south of the municipal area as a high settlement in a clearing 430 m high on the ridge of the otherwise wooded Hirschhorner Höhe (heights).
Georg Nusch (8 January 1588 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber - 8 January 1668 Rothenburg ob der Tauber) was a Bavarian politician. He was born to a patrician family of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in Bavaria's Franconia region.