Windischeschenbach is a town in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, in

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 ...

. It is situated north of

Weiden in der Oberpfalz Weiden in der Oberpfalz (official name: Weiden i.d.OPf.; Northern Bavarian: ''Weidn in da Owapfalz'') is a district-free city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located east of Nuremberg and west of the Czech border. A branch of the German Army is locat ...

. The

German Continental Deep Drilling Programme The German Continental Deep Drilling Programme (german: Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, lit=Continental deep-drilling program of the Federal Republic of Germany, abbreviated as the KTB borehole, was a scientific dri ...

, which reached a super-deep maximum depth of , is located near Windischeschenbach. Windischeschenbach is generally considered the origin of

Zoigl Zoigl is a type of German beer brewed in the Oberpfalz, eastern Bavaria, between Franconia and the Czech Republic. The name is believed to be derived from a Windischeschenbacher dialect pronunciation of the German word ''zeigen'' or ''Zeichen'' m ...

beer.

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Neustadt an der Waldnaab (district) {{NeustadtWaldnaabdistrict-geo-stub