Ebersdorf bei Coburg is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

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Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

Geography

Location

Ebersdorf lies on the upper course of the river Füllbach, a tributary of the

Itz ) crosses the Itz in Coburg , source1_location = in the Thuringian Forest near Sachsenbrunn , mouth_location = Main southeast of Baunach , mouth_coordinates = , progression = , subdivision_type1 = Country , subdivision_nam ...

, and at the northern edge of the

Lichtenfels Forest The Lichtenfels Forest (german: Lichtenfelser Forst) is a forest northwest of the town of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany. The vegetation consists mostly of the coniferous trees, with small areas mixed with forests of ...

(''Lichtenfelser Forst'').

Subdivisions

Ebersdorf is divided into 6 '' Ortsteile'': * Ebersdorf * Friesendorf *

Frohnlach Frohnlach is located in Upper Franconia (''Oberfranken'') in the district of (''Landkreis'') Coburg. It is the easternmost part of the municipality (''Gemeinde'') of Ebersdorf bei Coburg and, with around 2,000 inhabitants, the largest district aft ...

* Großgarnstadt * Kleingarnstadt * Oberfüllbach

Transport

Ebersdorf can be reached by car via motorway A 73

Suhl Suhl () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located SW of Erfurt, NE of Würzburg and N of Nuremberg. With its 37,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest of the six urban districts within Thuringia. Together with its northern neighbour-town Zella- ...

-Coburg-Nuremberg. Ebersdorf has a station at

Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway The Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway (also called the Werrabahn in German—Werra Railway) is a single-tracked main line with a standard gauge of in Thuringia and Bavaria in southern and central Germany, that runs mostly along the river Werra. It ...

. The

Steinach Valley Railway Steinach may refer to: Places and rivers *in Germany: **Steinach, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis district **Steinach, Bavaria, a municipality in the Straubing-Bogen district **Steinach, Thuringia, a town in the Sonneberg dis ...

from Ebersdorf to

Neustadt bei Coburg Neustadt bei Coburg (also written ''Neustadt b. Coburg'') is a town in the district of Coburg in northern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 15 km northeast of Coburg, as its name indicates. Local subdivisions Neustadt bei Coburg is subdivide ...

has first been disrupted by the

Inner German Border The inner German border (german: Innerdeutsche Grenze or ; initially also ) was the border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. Not including the ...

and was later lifted in 2000.

References

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