Ansbach

Ansbach (in England often ANSPACH), a town of Bavaria, on the Rezat, 25 miles SW. of Nürnberg. It has manufactures of furniture, buttons, bricks, woollen-yarn, lace, gold embroidery, beer, chicory, tobacco, and cigars; as well as straw-plaiting and iron-founding, and a brisk horse and cattle market. The situation is pleasant, but there are no remarkable buildings, except the deserted palace of the former margraves of Ansbach, surrounded by gardens, and the church of St Gumpert, said to occupy the site of a church erected in the 8th century. The margraves of the old principality of Ansbach were a branch of the family of Hohenzollern. The last of them gave up his possessions in 1791 to Prussia; and in 1807 Napoleon transferred Ansbach to Bavaria. Pop. (1895) 15,883.