Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Nuremberg and 90 miles (140 km) north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.
Ansbach is location of the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences. The city is connected by the autobahn A6 and the highways B13 and B14. Ansbach station is on the NĂĽrnberg–Crailsheim and Treuchtlingen–WĂĽrzburg railways and is the terminus of line S4 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn.© This article is provided by a external resource




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