Königsberg in Bayern is a town in the Haßberge district, in

Lower Franconia Lower Franconia (, ) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. It consists of nine districts and 308 municipalities (including three cities). History After ...

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is situated 7 km (5 miles) northeast of

Haßfurt Haßfurt (; English: Hassfurt) is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Haßberge (district), Haßberge district. It is situated on the river Main (river), Main, 20 km east of Schweinfurt and 30 km northwest of Bamberg. In 1852, Ludw ...

, and 31 km (20 miles) northwest of

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main (river), Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in ...

. It was an exclave of

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( ), was an Ernestine duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to ...

until 1918, after having been a part of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Notable people

* Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus (1436-1476), a famous mathematician and astronomer. *Johannes Marcellus (1510-1552), a philologist and poet, also called ''Regiomontanus'' * Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626–1712) a German organist, teacher, and composer. * Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff (1673–1763), Imperial Fieldmarschall and diplomat.

References

Haßberge (district) {{Haßberge-geo-stub