Neuendettelsau is a
local authority
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in
Middle Franconia
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,
Germany
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. Neuendettelsau is situated 20 miles southwest of
Nuremberg
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and 12 miles east of
Ansbach. Since 1947 it has a
Lutheran
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seminary
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(
''Augustana Hochschule'').
Diakonie Neuendettelsau
Reverend
Wilhelm Löhe
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(1808–1872) founded in 1854 an institute for
deaconesses. The ''Diakonie Neuendettelsau'' is one of today’s major independent Christian institutions for
social welfare work in Germany and the biggest such enterprise in
Bavaria
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. More than 5,800 employees at numerous institutions in Neuendettelsau and other regions all over Southern Germany and in other European countries take care of the people they are responsible for.
Politics
The mayor is Christoph Schmoll (
SPD), elected in March 2020.
Sister city
*
Treignac
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(France), since 1996
Notable people
*
Karl-Friedrich Beringer
Hans Karl-Friedrich Beringer (born 7 January 1948, in Neuendettelsau) is a German choral and orchestral conductor, who was from 1978 to 2011 the conductor of the Windsbacher Knabenchor.
Life
Born in Neuendettelsau, Beringer studied at the Meis ...
, choirmaster of the
Windsbacher Knabenchor
The Windsbacher Knabenchor (Windsbach Boys' Choir) is a German boys' choir in Windsbach, Germany, founded in 1946 and performing internationally.
History
The choir was founded in 1946 by Hans Thamm and was conducted by Karl-Friedrich Beringer fr ...
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*
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe,
Lutheran
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pastor and theologian.
*
Walter Burkert, world-famous German scholar of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
Literature
* Matthias Honold, Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): ''700 Jahre Neuendettelsau'', Neuendettelsau 1998.
* Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): ''Unter Stroh- und Ziegeldächern. Aus der Neuendettelsauer Geschichte'', Neuendettelsau 1982.
References
External links
Homepage of the local authority NeuendettelsauDiakonie NeuendettelsauLöhe-Zeit-Museum NeuendettelsauVirtual museum of Neuendettelsau
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