Kulmbach () is the capital of the district of
Kulmbach in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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. The town is famous for
Plassenburg Castle, which houses the largest tin soldier museum in the world, and for its sausages, or ''
Bratwürste
Bratwurst () is a type of German sausage made from pork or, less commonly, beef or veal. The name is derived from the Old High German ''Brätwurst'', from ''brät-'', finely chopped meat, and ''Wurst'', sausage, although in modern German it is of ...
''.
Geography
Location
Kulmbach is located in the middle of the Bavarian province of
Upper Franconia, about northwest of the city of
Bayreuth. To the south of Kulmbach, the River
Main begins at the confluence of its headstreams, the
White Main and
Red Main.
Town districts
Kulmbach is divided into the following districts (with population in brackets):
History
From about 900 AD there was a small settlement in what is now the district of Spiegel, which consisted of a forest lodge and a fortified tenant farm (''Fronhof'') to protect the river
Main crossing at Grünwehr. The area later passed into the hands of the
Count of Schweinfurt, whose power was usually exercised through the office of the .
Kulmbach was first mentioned as ''Kulma'' in a deed of gift in the
Alcuin Bible between 1028 and 1040. The name comes from a stream that comes descends the mountain (''Culmin-aha, Culmna''). This stream was later renamed ''Kohlenbach'' due to a misunderstanding.
When the male line of the Schweinfurt counts died out, Kulmbach passed to the Dießen line of the
Andechs family through the marriage of the Schweinfurts' daughter and heiress, Gisela, to Count Arnold of Dießen.
The counts acquired other lands around Kulmbach, built the first fort, the
Plassenburg, in the first third of the twelfth century and founded a market town and a church in today's upper town (''Obere Stadt''). In 1180 the
House of Andechs was elevated to an imperial princedom by the
Emperor Barbarossa and given the title of Duke of
Merania after the town of Marano between
Venice
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and
Trieste
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(now
Marano Lagunare).
Around 1231 Kulmbach was granted
town rights
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. In place of the old Plassenburg, the site of which is unclear, the dukes built a new castle on a hill spur above Kulmbach. The rule of the Meranian family ended with the last Duke of Merania, Otto II, who died childless in 1248.

After years of inheritance disputes the castle of Plassenburg and hence rule over Kulmbach went in 1260 to the
Thuringia
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Erfurt is the capital and lar ...
n counts of
Orlamünde. The Orlamündes finished the new Plassenburg castle and founded the monastery of
Himmelkron. Later, they pledged the castle and town. In 1340, after the death of the last Orlamünde, pursuant to an agreement, the
burggraves of Nuremberg, members of the
Hohenzollern family, took over Kulmbach and Plassenburg.
Until the 17th century, Plassenburg was the residence of the burggrave office or ''
Amt
Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...
''. Later it was the ''Amt'' for the Hohenzollern
Principality of Kulmbach
The Principality of Bayreuth (german: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (''Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth'') was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dyna ...
(also: ''Brandenburg-Kulmbach'' or, after 1604, ''Brandenburg-Bayreuth''). As a result of its favourable location on the
historic
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and 'escorted' roads to
Bamberg,
Nuremberg
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,
Eger
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,
Hof and
Leipzig
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trade in the town flourished - guilds were formed for the weavers, dyers and silk embroiderers. In 1398, 1500 to 2000 inhabitants lived in Kulmbach; this can be seen from a burggraviate inventory of land, houses and taxes. The town was ruled by a lordly ''Vogt'' or sheriff, the mayor and a council of prominent citizens.
As a result of the transfer of the princely privilege in 1363, and the electorate and the
March of Brandenburg in 1415, all subsequent Franconian Hohenzollerns called themselves
Margrave
Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the E ...
s of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. From 1411 to 1529 Kulmbach townsfolk stood as
chancellor
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s at the head of the administration for the March of Brandenburg (Dr. Frederick Sesselmann, Sigismund Zehrer and Sebastian Stublinger).
On 31 January 1430 the
Hussites
The Hussites ( cs, Husité or ''Kališníci''; "Chalice People") were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus, who became the best known representative of the Bohemian Reformation.
The Hu ...
sacked the town.
In the course of rebuilding the town, which had been largely destroyed, St. Peter's Church was rebuilt in late Gothic style. It was here that the first Protestant church service was celebrated under Margrave
George the Pious in 1528.
The belligerent margrave,
Albert Alcibiades
Albert II (german: Albrecht; 28 March 15228 January 1557) was the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) from 1527 to 1553. He was a member of the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Because of his bellicose nature, ...
, wanted to bring all Franks under his rule and set up a Frankish duchy. So he moved to oppose the bishoprics of Bamberg and Würzburg, whose rulers allied themselves with the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. In the
Second Margrave War, this
alliance
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invaded Kulmbach on St. Conrad's Day (named after Saint
Conrad of Constance), 26 November 1553, and plundered the city. On 21 October 1554 the Plassenburg, whose garrison had hitherto held out against their enemy, was also set on fire and destroyed. The battle is recreated in the German Tin Soldiers Museum in Kulmbach.

From 1557 the town was rebuilt under the new margrave, George Frederick. In 1559 the reconstruction of the
Plassenburg, one of the most important Renaissance buildings in Germany, began. However, George Frederick's successor, Margrave Christian, moved the location of his ''
Residenz'' in 1604 to neighbouring
Bayreuth as the Plassenburg no longer fulfilled the ideas of courtly absolutism, and the expansion of the castle came to an end. Nevertheless, the margravial residence returned to Kulmbach several times, once, in 1605, due to a fire in the city of Bayreuth and then again, for safety, during the
Thirty Years War. Kulmbach was also burned as a Protestant town by imperial troops, but the Plassenburg proved impregnable.
Finally, in 1642, the residence was moved permanently to Bayreuth, and Kulmbach lost its political importance. As a result, little of significance happened here in the years that followed.
When Margrave Charles Frederick Alexander sold the March of Brandenburg-Bayreuth to his cousin, the King of Prussia, on account of his lover, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Kulmbach, too, became Prussian, and the Plassenburg was used in the years that followed as a camp for French prisoners of war.
Since the Plassenburg represented an obstacle to French and Bavarian forces advancing against Prussia in 1806, the town of Kulmbach was occupied in October and November that year. After the capitulation of its Prussian garrison, the castle was slighted in order to render it militarily useless.
Finally, Kulmbach was granted to Bavaria in 1810.
In 1846 it was connected to the King
Ludwig South-North Railway The Ludwig South-North railway (''Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn''), built between 1843 and 1854, was the first railway line to be constructed by Royal Bavarian State Railways. It was named after the king, Ludwig I, whose infrastructure priorities had ear ...
. This resulted in a tremendous economic boom - particularly for the breweries - as their products could now be readily exported. So the number of breweries grew to 26 in 1882.
In 1890 Kulmbach was elected as a free (''kreisunmittelbar'') town.
In 1933, the
NSDAP
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seized power in Kulmbach and the Imperial School of German Technology (''Reichsschule der deutschen Technik'') was established in the Plassenburg. As a result, Kulmbach was even given an additional motorway junction which is now the start of today's
A 70 autobahn.
In early 1945, Kulmbach was captured by American troops without a fight.
In the local government reforms of 1972, the districts of
Kulmbach and
Stadtsteinach
Stadtsteinach is a town in the district of Kulmbach, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Frankenwald, 8 km northeast of Kulmbach.
It is known for its proximity to mountains, fields and nature reserves.
Town divisions
Stadtsteinach ...
were merged and Kulmbach is now the county town.
Politics
Mayors
* 1946–1958: Georg Hagen,
SPD
* 1958–1970: Wilhelm Murrmann, FWG
* 1970–1994: Dr. Erich Stammberger, Wählergemeinschaft Kulmbach (WGK)
* 1994–2007: Inge Aures,
SPD
* 2007-2020: Henry Schramm,
CSU
* since 2020: Ingo Lehmann,
SPD
Town council
The local elections of 2014 and 2020 resulted in the following representation on the town council:
Twin towns – sister cities
Kulmbach is
twinned
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* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
*
Bursa
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, Turkey (1998)
*
Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom (1974)
*
Lugo
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, Italy (1974)
*
Rust
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, Austria (1981)
*
Saalfeld, Germany (1988)
Leisure, culture and places of interest
Culinary specialities

Besides the usual Upper Franconian specialties, there is
Kulmbacher Bratwurst sausage which consists of a very fine ground pork and is served in aniseed rolls, the so-called ''Stölla''. These sausages may be eaten at one of the many sausage stalls in the town. Known far beyond the town itself is the strong beer known as
EKU 28, brewed by the ''
Kulmbacher Brauerei
The Kulmbach Brewery Corporation (German language, German: ''Kulmbacher Brauerei AG'') was founded in 1895 under the name ''Reichelbräu'' in Kulmbach, a city in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.
History
The success of the brewery started w ...
'', which for years was regarded as the strongest beer in the world. Kulmbach has also earned a reputation as a food centre thanks to the Max Rubner Institute (Federal Agency for Food Safety, formerly the Federal Institute for Meat Research), which has come to prominence since the
BSE scandal.
Sport and Recreation
* The club,
ATS Kulmbach 1861, is one of the oldest and largest sports clubs in Bavaria.
* Kulmbach Airfield (''Kulmbacher Flugplatz '') EDQK
Museums

*Plassenburg museums:
**German Tin Soldier Museum in the
Plassenburg, with more than 300,000 tin figures
**
Frederick the Great
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Army Museum (''Armeemuseum Friedrich der Große'')
**Upper Main Landscape Museum (''Landschaftsmuseum Obermain'') with a replica of the
Ebstorf Map, and displays covering the ''Reformation'', the ''Destruction of Kulmbach in 1553'' and the ''Reconstruction of the Old Residenz Town''. In the ''Pörbitsch Treasure'', discovered in 1912, during construction work, there are gold and silver dishes belonging to the wealthy merchant family, ''Gutteter'' that had it buried in their garden during the Thirty Years War.
* The Public Bath House (''Badhaus'') is one of eight scientifically researched public baths in Germany. The bathing hall, changing and rest rooms, pre-bath and boiler room have been restored and give an impression of bathing in the Middle Ages. On an open gallery on the upper floor works by young artists in the region are exhibited.
*Bavarian Brewery and Bakery Museum (''Bayerisches Brauerei- und Bäckereimuseum''). Beer has been brewed in Kulmbach's ''Mönchshof'' ("monastery") for over 600 years. On the site of the former Mönchshof Brewery, there is now the Mönchshof Restaurant with a large beer garden and the museum. Various information boards and historical machinery, bottles and other equipment give an insight into Bavarian brewing. The museum itself is in a small glass brewery. Visitors are given a small (0.2 litre) glass of museum beer at the end of their visit.
* Alter Friedhof Open-Air Museum (''Freilichtmuseum "Alter Friedhof"'')
Buildings

* The
Plassenburg is one of the greatest
Renaissance
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castles in Germany. It is also the origin of the legend of the
White Lady.
* Kulmbach's town hall (''Rathaus'') was built in 1752. Plans for the
rococo
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façade came from Bayreuth's royal master builder, Joseph Saint-Pierre. The previous town hall, later demolished, dated to the period between 1500 and 1530 and was destroyed during the
Second Margrave War.
* The Public Bath House (''Badhaus'') is first mentioned in the records in 1398. It was scientifically researched and restored. Today part of the building serves as an art gallery.
* The White Tower was built in the 14th century to protect the town wall. Its present appearance dates to the 17th century. The tower was used until the 19th century as a debtors' prison. As part of Kulmbach's town wall the White Tower belongs to the town fortifications of the early 14th century. Like the neighbouring fortified tower of ''Bürgerloch'', the White Tower is a double-towered gateway.
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* The Luitpold fountain was built in 1898 to a design by architect, Martin Düfler. Previously the Zinnsfeld fountain, built in 1660 and symbolising the town's market freedoms, stood on the same spot. It is now in the ''Holzmarkt''. During the
Nazi era the fountain was dismantled and stored, but rebuilt in 1994. Surrounded by the town hall, market square, numerous cafés and shops it forms one of the social centrepieces of Kulmbach.
* The Red Tower goes back to around 1300 and was part of the old town fortifications. One feature is its roof construction with a curved spire.
* St. Peter's Church (''Petrikirche'') is a former
fortified church, whose origins are uncertain. The church tower used to act as a cannon platform, it was later given a pointed roof. After the
Hussite War of 1439 it was remodelled as a
Late Gothic
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hall church. In 1878/80 the interior was decorated in the
Gothic Revival style. Noteworthy are the altar by Brenk and Schlehdorn, and numerous valuable paintings. It is also the basilica of the Hohenzollern rulers.
* The hospital church (''Spitalkirche'') was built in 1738/1739 on the site of St. Elizabeth's Chapel.
* The
Langheim Amtshof was built at the end of the 17th century by
Leonhard Dientzenhofer. Today it is an educational establishment for the Academy for New Media and technical high school for
pharmacy technicians.
* The Heilingschwert Tower from the 14th century is a round "shell tower" (''Schalenturm''), part of the town fortifications on the ''Schießgraben''.
* The old cemetery with its many gravestones that underpin the history of the town. In front of the old cemetery on the main road is a memorial to the fallen.
* The ''Burggüter'' or fortified buildings of Kulmbach
File:Roterturmku.jpg, The Red Tower
File:Petrikircheku.JPG, St. Peter's
Regular events
* ''Volksfest'' ("Folk festival") in April on the ''Festplatz'' at the ''Schwedensteg''
* The
Bavarian Police
The Bavarian State Police (german: Bayerische Staatliche Polizei) is the state police force of the German state of Bavaria under the umbrella of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. It has approximately 33,500 armed officers and roughly 8,500 ...
organize a motorcycle rally to Kulmbach every spring in collaboration with Radio
Antenne Bayern. It is the largest motorcycle meeting in southern Germany and the tenth one took place in 2010.
* The Kulmbach ''Volksfest'' in May
* The three-day ''Altstadtfest'' ("old town festival") in June in wide areas of the town centre (''Innenstadt'').
* The ''Blaicher Kerwa'' in June
* On St. Gregori's Day in July schoolchildren from all of Kulmbach's primary schools assemble in the town square (''Rathausplatz'') and celebrate the Gregori Festival.
* Since 1939 the ''Kulmbach Beer Week'' has been staged at the end of July and beginning of August by the brewery, ''
Kulmbacher Brauerei
The Kulmbach Brewery Corporation (German language, German: ''Kulmbacher Brauerei AG'') was founded in 1895 under the name ''Reichelbräu'' in Kulmbach, a city in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.
History
The success of the brewery started w ...
''. The brewery, one of the largest in Germany, was founded in Kulmbach and made it famous for its beer. The town is also known as "The secret capital of beer".
* On Christmas Eve the townsfolk and former townsfolk of Kulmbach meet in the morning for ''
Frühschoppen'' in the Upper Town (''Oberen Stadt''). The roads are closed and several thousand visitors go in order to meet friends and relatives whom they have not seen for a long time.
Transport
*
Kulmbach station on the
Bamberg–Hof railway, with rail connections to
Hof,
Bamberg,
Bayreuth and
Lichtenfels. Kulmbach was also the terminus of the former
Bayreuth Altstadt–Kulmbach railway.
* Junctions on the
B 85 (
Berga/Elster–
Passau),
B 289 (
Coburg–
Rehau
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) and six kilometres () away near Untersteinach
B 303 (
Schweinfurt
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–
Fichtelgebirge–
Schirnding
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Musicologist Reinhard Schulz
Reinhard Schulz (7 March 1950 – 24 July 2009) was a Germa ...
) federal roads, as well as on the
A 9 (
Munich
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–
Berlin
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) and
A 70 motorways (
Bayreuth–
Schweinfurt
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)
* Kulmbach Airfield ( above
NN) with asphalt runway () about north of Kulmbach ( above NN).
Economy
Kulmbach has traditionally been a manufacturing base for the drinks and food industry. Relatively recently it has become a home to biotechnical
pharmaceuticals in the shape of ''Roche Kulmbach GmbH (previously Alnylam Europe AG)'', as well as the construction and management of hot water and air conditioning equipment, heat pumps, storage and direct heating equipment, such as that made by
Glen Dimplex. "AGO" specialises in biomasse and
cogeneration
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Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elec ...
power stations.
Notable people

*John Charles Meussdorffer I ( 1823–1894), created one of the first hat manufacturing businesses in San Francisco
*
Friedrich Sesselmann Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
(c. 1410– 1483), 1445–83 chancellor of the Electorate of
Brandenburg
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, 1455–83 Bishop of
Lebus
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*Kaspar Preyel (?–1517), 1504–17
auxiliary bishop in Bamberg and
titular bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox a ...
of ''Athyra'' (appointed by
Pope Julius II)
*Pankraz Gutteter (1472–1532), long-distance trader
*Hans Suess, also
Hans von Kulmbach (c. 1480 – c. 1522), artist and graphic designer of the
Albrecht Dürer school
*
Ludwig Agricola (c. 1508 – c. 1540), theologian, reformer
*
Caspar Vischer
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People
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*Caspar Austa (born 1982), Estonian cyclist
*Caspar Badrutt (1848–1904) ...
(c. 1510–1579), senior builder and engineer for the margrave,
George Frederick, during the rebuilding of the
Plassenburg; heavily involved in the rebuilding of Kulmbach after its devastation in the
Second Margrave War
*Jakob Ellrod (1601–1671), priest, astronomer and mathematician, ancestor of the ''
Reichsfreiherr'' family of Ellrod
*
Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607–1655), organist, composer,
wait
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Albums and EPs
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, artist and poet
*Johann Georg Hoffmann (1705–1778), castle master builder
*
Johann Peter Apollonius Weltrich (1781–1850), treasurer, carried out historic and scientific research
*
Gottlieb Keim
Gottlieb Keim (10 March 1783 – 29 August 1868) was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament.
Life
Born in Kulmbach, during his law studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Keim became a member of the , from which he left because of diffe ...
(1783–1868), politician
*
Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Pölzig and Beiersdorf
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(1804–1884), second husband to
Louise of Saxe-Gotha, stepfather to
Prince Albert
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*Johann Adam Ries (1813–1898), coin engraver, punchcutter and graphic designer at the Münzhof in Munich
*
Johann Gramp (1819–1903) vigneron and pioneer,
Barossa Valley, Australia
*Fritz Huther (1827–1899), artist and Kunsterzieher
*Johann Karl Hetz (1828–1899), artist, professor and teacher in Munich
*
Johann Christoph Lauterbach (1832–1918), violin virtuoso, concertmaster, conservatorium teacher, privy councillor in Dresden
*Johannes Kaulfuß (1859–1947), scientist, specialist in
moss
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es and
lichens
*Michel Weiß (1867–1951), artist, numerous paintings of Kulmbach and its countryside
*
Hans Wilsdorf (1881–1960), businessman, founder of
Rolex
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Georg Hagen (1887–1958), politician (
SPD)
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Fritz Schuberth (1897–1977), politician (
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
) and
SS Oberführer
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Nikolaus Wehner
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its ...
(1901–1942), politician (NSDAP)
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Philipp Zeitler
Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
"Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews.
Surname
* Adolf Philipp (186 ...
(1901–1984), alderman of Würzburg
*Wilhelm Murrmann (1907–1975), lord mayor (F
WG)
*
Karl Herold Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austri ...
(1921–1977), politician (SPD)
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Horst Lohse (born 1943), composer, founder and artistic director of the “Days of New Music” in Bamberg
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Heiner Keupp
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Heiner is a German male name, a diminutive of Heinrich (given name), Heinrich, and also a surname.
Given name
*Heiner Backhaus (born 1982), professional footballer
*Heiner Baltes (born 1949), former football defender
*Heiner Brand (bor ...
(born 1943), social psychologist and professor
*Philipp Simon Goletz alias
Frankensima (born 27 September 1954), entertainer, author and musician
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Jürgen Teipel
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A
*Jürgen Ahrend (born 1930), German organ builder
* Jürgen Alzen (bo ...
(born 1961), journalist and playwright
Bedeutende Kulmbacher
auf der städtischen Homepage
*Bernd Förtsch
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
*Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
(born 1962), founder and owner of the trade magazine ''Der Aktionär
''Der Aktionär'' (German language, German: ''The Shareholder'') is a German language weekly business and finance magazine published in Germany. The headquarters of the magazine is in Kulmbach.
History and profile
''Der Aktionär'' was started i ...
'', operator of the '' Deutschen Anleger Fernsehens DAF''
*Alexander Herrmann (born 1971), celebrity and TV chef
Associated to Kulmbach
*Matthias Tretzscher Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθαίος, in origin similar to Matthew.
People
Notable people named Matthias include the following:
In religion:
* Saint Matthias, chosen as an apostle in Acts 1:21–26 to replace Judas Iscariot
...
(1626–1686), organ maker
*Johann Christoph Stierlein
Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...
(1759–1827), cartographer
* Caspar Walter Rauh (1912–1983), artist and illustrator, lived in Kulmbach from 1955
* Thomas Gottschalk (born 1950), TV presenter
* Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (born 1971), former Federal Minister for Defence, represented the town in the Bundestag
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from 2002 until March 2011
Honorary citizens
See List of honorary citizens of Kulmbach
Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
See Hohenzollern or Brandenburg-Kulmbach
References
Sources
* ''Deutscher Städteatlas'' (1989). Band: IV; 9 Teilband. Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Societatis Historicorum Internationalis - Serie C. Im Auftrag des Kuratoriums für vergleichende Städtegeschichte e.V. und mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, hrsg. von Heinz Stoob †, Wilfried Ehbrecht, Jürgen Lafrenz und Peter Johannek. Stadtmappe Kulmbach, Author: Friedrich Bernward Fahlbusch. , Dortmund-Altenbeken 1989.
* Bogner, Franz X. (2006). Der Obermain. Ein Luftbildporträt von Bayreuth bis Bamberg. Ellwanger-Verlag, Bayreuth, .
External links
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From the History of Kulmbach (Upper Main Landscape Museum)
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* History of Kulmbach
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