Ellingen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It was first mentioned in 899. From 1216 - 1806 it was capital of the Franconian branch of the Teutonic Order and at least for some years residence of the order's grandmaster at the end of 18th century. At the end of WW II Ellingen was bombed by US Airforce although it had no military or industrial importance. The town has a baroque palace, Ellingen Residence, and several other baroque and rococo buildings. The Swabian Rezat (river) flows through Ellingen. Ellingen has a railway station at the Nuremberg - Treuchtlingen - Augsburg line.
Population: 3,738
Latitude: 49° 03' 38.74" N
Longitude: 10° 58' 4.19" E
The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), in Bavaria, Germany, connects the Main and the Danube rivers across the European Watershed, running from Bamberg via Nuremberg to…
The Time pyramid (German: Zeitpyramide) is a work of public art by Manfred Laber under construction in Wemding, Germany.
The low-UHF band Würzburg radar was the primary ground-based gun laying radar for the Luftwaffe and the Wehrmacht Heer (German Army) during World War II. Initial development took place before the war and the apparatus entered service in 1940. Eventu…
Eichstätt (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪçʃtɛt], formerly also Eichstädt or Aichstädt) is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the District of Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at (48°53′30″N11°11′0″E), and ha…
The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is a Roman Catholic university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
Roth is a district in Mittelfranken, Bavaria, Germany.
The Franconian Jura (German: Fränkische Alb, Fränkischer Jura, Frankenalb) is an upland in Bavaria, Germany.
Eichstätt is a district in Bavaria, Germany.
Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen is a Kreis (district) in the west of Bavaria, Germany.
The Fossa Carolina (or Karlsgraben in German) was a navigable channel connecting the Swabian Rezat river to the Altmühl river (the Rhine basin to the Danube basin). It was created during the Middle Ages long before the Ludwig Canal and the Rhine-Mai…
Pappenheim was a German statelet in western Bavaria, Germany, located on the Altmühl river between Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen, and south of Weißenburg.
The Franconian Lake District lies south-west of Nuremberg in northern Bavaria, in Germany.
Altmühltal is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (federation of municipalities) in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria in Germany.
Roth Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Roth, ICAO: ETHR) is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the city of Roth in Bavaria, Germany.
Plankstetten Abbey (Kloster Plankstetten) is a monastery of the Benedictines located between Berching and Beilngries in Bavaria, Germany.
The Jura Museum situated in Eichstätt, Germany is a Natural History Museum that has an extensive exhibit of Jurassic fossils from the quarry of Solnhofen, including marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and one specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx. The l…
The Fränkische Rezat ("Franconian Rezat") is a 64 km long river in southern Germany. It is the western, left source river of the Rednitz. It rises in the Frankenhöhe hills, near Oberdachstetten. It flows generally east through the towns Lehrberg, An…
The Hahnenkamm is a mountain ridge in Bavaria, Germany.