Schwaig is a municipality in the district of

Nürnberger Land Nürnberger Land is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Forchheim, Bayreuth, Amberg-Sulzbach, Neumarkt, Roth and Erlangen-Höchstadt, and by the city of Nuremberg. Hi ...

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 ...

. In 1979 the municipalities Schwaig and Behringersdorf were merged to form the current municipality. Behringersdorf has a railway station on the

Nuremberg–Cheb railway The Nuremberg–Cheb railway is a 151 km long, non-electrified main line, mainly in the German state of Bavaria. It runs from Nuremberg via Lauf an der Pegnitz, Hersbruck, Pegnitz (city), Pegnitz, Speichersdorf, Kirchenlaibach, Marktredwitz a ...

Notable people

Hans-Johann Färber Hans-Johann Färber (born 20 April 1947) is a German rower who competed for West Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. Rowing At the 1967 European Rowing Championships, he won bronze with Udo Brecht in the coxles ...

(born 1947), Olympic rower * Oliver Zeidler (born 1996), rower

References

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