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Ansbach was our original focus in the search
for "our" Zellhoefer's back in Bavaria. It has since
found to be about the southern boundary of the area in which Zellhoefers
lived from back about year 1600. Almost everyone was found within a
triangular area bounded by Nuernburg, Bad Windsheim and Ansbach.
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Today Ansbach is about 40,000 population and is, among many other
activities, a center for government records. We don't have much for
pictures, which seems surprising.
Several maps are shown, each giving quite different views of similar
areas. Between them can be found many of the villages where
Zellhoefer and Wellhoefer surnames were found - then and now! |
| Ansbach (äns´bäkh)
, city (1994 pop. 39,155), capital of Middle Franconia, Bavaria, S
Germany, on the Rezat River. A rail and road junction, Ansbach has
diversified industries, including printing, metal, textile, and cardboard
production. The city developed around an 8th-century Benedictine abbey. It
became the residence of the Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern family
in 1331. Ansbach passed to Prussia in 1791 and to Bavaria in 1806.
Noteworthy buildings include the 12th-century Romanesque Church of St.
Gumbertus, which was redone in baroque style in the 18th cent., and an
18th-century castle. |
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A view of Ansbach from Bleidorn The church
in downtown Ansbach
http://www.ansbach-alumni.com/Denny1.html
has since become a dead link |
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"a military installation in Ansbach"
http://www.eurotravelling.net/index1.htm?germany/ansbach/ansbach.htm~main |
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Here is the kreis Ansbach, showing the several community
areas within it. http://www.odn.de/ |
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This from MultiMap of the Ansbach area, very
comprehensive and easy to read, but fewer towns. |
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There is both the county (kreis) Ansbach, and the city
(stadt) of Ansbach within it. The Ansbach area is central to the
early Zellhoefers in Bavaria, most living within 20 miles of the city
Ansbach, This map of the kreis is helpful in trying to understand
the Zellhoefer area, and shows some of the towns (Dietenhofen, Heilsbronn,
Weihenzell, Ansbach....) where early Zellhoefer's (and Wellhoefer's)
lived, and where their descendants live even today.
Found
at telehotel site |
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At MapQuest we find this; Ansbach is located at the red
star. More towns, but strangely so many are not shown?! |
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And this from mapsite previously unknown to me
~ Via Michelin ~
I couldn't manipulate to exactly the desired centerpoint, but a very nice
map! |
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This 1929 picture found at
http://www.jlittlewood.com/pictures/deutschland/pix.htm
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Found this HUGE "Ansbach Residence"at
http://www.users.odn.de/~odn07240/html/ansbach.html
You'll find several good indoor
shots at the above link
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http://www.langstreckenteam.de/wettkampf_berichte/ansbach01/ansbach01.htm
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Ansbach has it's own nice little website, with just a few
small pictures of some historically important places, at
http://ansbach.de/cda/showpage.php?SiteID=40&lang=uk
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