Schwandorf is a town on the river
Naab
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The Naab (Czech: ''Nába'') is a river in Bavaria, Germany, and is a left tributary of the Danube. Including its main source river Waldnaab, it is long. Its average discharge at the mouth is .
The Naab is formed by the confluence of t ...
in the
Upper Palatinate,
Bavaria,
Germany, which is the seat of the
Schwandorf
Schwandorf is a town on the river Naab in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, which is the seat of the Schwandorf district.
Sights
* Catholic parish church of St. Jakob
* Kreuzberg Church: Catholic parish, monastic and pilgrimage church of ...
district.
Sights
* Catholic parish church of St. Jakob
*
Kreuzberg Church: Catholic parish, monastic and pilgrimage church of
Mary Help of Christians on the Kreuzberg
Politics
Schwandorf (electoral district)
Schwandorf is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 234. It is located ...
Sports
The towns association football club,
1. FC Schwandorf
The 1. FC Schwandorf is a German association football club from the town of Schwandorf, Bavaria.
The club's most successful era was in the late 1950s and 1960s when it spent thirteen season in the tier three Bayernliga. The club has a strong ass ...
, experienced its greatest success in the late 1950s and 1960 when it spent thirteen seasons in the third division
Bayernliga.
Twin towns – sister cities
Schwandorf is
twinned with:
*
Libourne, France
*
Sokolov, Czech Republic
References
Schwandorf (district)
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