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Engelthal () is a municipality near Nürnberg (Nuremberg) in the Frankenalb (Frankish Alb). The municipality has a population of approximately 1100 people.

Key facts

German location.image_coa
DEU Engelthal COA.svg
German location.image_photo
Osttor der Engelthaler Klostermauer.jpg
German location.image_caption
Eastern Gate of the Engelthal Abbey
German location.image_plan
Engelthal in LAU.svg
German location.state
Bayern
German location.region
Mittelfranken
German location.district
Nürnberger Land
German location.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Henfenfeld
German location.elevation
371
German location.area
13.63
German location.postal_code
91238
German location.area_code
09158
German location.licence
LAU, ESB, HEB, N, PEG
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
09 5 74 120
German location.divisions
6 Gemeindeteile
German location.website
www.engelthal.de
German location.mayor
Günther Rögner
German location.leader_term
2020–26

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Wikidata facts

Country
Germany
Population
1112
Area
13.63
Elevation
372
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.engelthal.de
Image
D-5-74-120-8 02.jpg
Dialing code
09158
Licence plate code
LAU
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Commons category
Engelthal
postal code
91238
P8168
Parasha
hashtag
Engelthal
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Engelthal () is a municipality near Nürnberg (Nuremberg) in the Frankenalb (Frankish Alb). The municipality has a population of approximately 1100 people.

==History== The place was named Swinnahe in former times and mentioned first in 1058/1059 on the occasion of the consecration of a church by bishop Gundekar von Eichstätt. Engelthal was established as a cloister (Dominican nuns) at 1240 from Ulrich von Königstein auf Reicheneck. Mentioned first officially in 1245 and in 1339 given protection from emperor Ludwig as of the Nürnberger Rat and the city of Nuremberg.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Engelthal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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