Neuendettelsau

Geschichte

Neuendettelsau is a local authority in Middle Franconia, Germany. Neuendettelsau is situated 20 miles southwest of Nuremberg and 12 miles east of Ansbach. Population: 7,535 (as at 31 December 2013). The city has three schools. Since 1947 it has a Lutheran seminary. It is connected by motorway A6.Diakonie NeuendettelsauReverend Wilhelm Löhe (1808 - 1872) founded in 1854 an institute for deaconesses. The Diakonie Neuendettelsau is one of today’s major independent Christian institutions for social welfare work in Germany and the biggest such enterprise in Bavaria. More than 5,800 employees at numerous institutions in Neuendettelsau and other regions all over Southern Germany and in other European countries take care of the people they are responsible for.Politics First mayor: Gerhard Korn Second mayor: Gottwald Dötzer Third mayor: Wernher Geistmann Sister city Treignac (France), since 1996Famous people Karl-Friedrich Beringer, choirmaster of the Windsbacher Knabenchor :de:Windsbacher Knabenchor Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe, Lutheran pastor and theologian. Walter Burkert, world-famous German scholar of ancient Greek mythology and religion.