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{{Infobox German location
|type = Stadt
|name = Neustadt an der Aisch
|name_local =
|image_coa = DEU Neustadt an der Aisch COA.svg
|image_plan = Neustadt an der Aisch in NEA.svg
|image_photo = Neustadt an der Aisch Rathaus.jpg
|image_caption = Town hall
|state = Bavaria
|region  = Mittelfranken
|district         = Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 09575153
|area = 61.21
|elevation =
|coordinates = {{coord|49|35|48|N|10|36|32|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code = 91413
|area_code = 09161
|licence = NEA
|mayor = Klaus Meier<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], [[Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik]], 15 July 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2020&ndash;26
|party = SPD
|website = [http://www.neustadt-aisch.de/ www.neustadt-aisch.de/]
}}

'''Neustadt an der Aisch''' ({{IPA|de|ˈnɔʏʃtat ʔan deːɐ̯ ˈʔaɪʃ|-|LL-Q188 (deu)-Ionenlaser-Neustadt an der Aisch.wav}}, {{lit|New City on the [[Aisch]]}}; officially: ''Neustadt a.d. Aisch'') is a small town of around 13,000 inhabitants in the northern part of [[Bavaria]] (Germany), within the [[Franconia]]n [[Regierungsbezirk|administrative region]] [[Middle Franconia]].<ref>
   "Neustadt an der Aisch" (mapping), 2007, webpage:
   [http://www.airport-images.com/city_657610_Neustadt%20an%20der%20Aisch Airport-map-657610].
</ref>
It is the district town of the [[Districts of Germany|district]] [[Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim]].

==History==
In 741, for the first time, Riedfeld, the town's root settlement, was documented as the German king's court. However, in 1285 the town's name is documented for the first time as "Nivenstadt".

At the end of the 12th century, Neustadt became part of the sovereign territory of the [[burgrave]]s of [[Nuremberg]], the dynasty of the [[Hohenzollern]]. The House of Hohenzollern developed Neustadt into an economical, political and also cultural centre of its region, mainly because of its favourable geographical position in the middle of the main trade route between [[Würzburg]] and Nuremberg.

At the end of the 15th century, [[Margrave]] [[Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg|Albrecht Achilles]] and ''Kurfürstin'' ([[Prince-elector|Electress]]) Anna completed Neustadt as a stronghold.

In 1553, in the [[Second Margrave War]], the town was burnt down. Afterwards, a long lasting phase of construction and extension began. This phase ended with the destructions of the [[Thirty Years' War]]. The rebuilding after that war lasted several hundred of years.

From 1791 through to 1806, Neustadt was part of the sovereign territory of [[Prussia]], then was military governed by the French, and in 1810 became finally part of the [[Kingdom of Bavaria]]. The political importance of Neustadt faded thereafter, but trade and industry kept growing due to the deployment of a garrison of the [[Uhlan]]s, and in 1865 due to the opening of its station on the [[Nuremberg–Würzburg Railway]].

In 1934, the town was the scene of an organized [[boycott]] against all [[Jewish]] merchants, and violence broke out against [[Christians|Christian]] Germans who patronized stores owned by Jews. Ultimately all of the Jews of Neustadt were expelled, many relocating to [[Nuremberg]], and the Jewish [[synagogue]] was razed to the ground.

During the 20th century, traditional handicrafts (like brush-makers and makers of drawing instruments) almost completely vanished. With the resettlement of expellees from [[Sudetenland]], new handicraft industries were imported: construction of musical instruments and the textile industry flourished.

From 1969 through to 1980, in total 16 ''[[Ortsteil]]e'' were incorporated. In the course of an administrative reorganization (''Gebietsreform''), Neustadt became capital of the newly formed district "Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim".

In the 1980s and 1990s, the infrastructure was improved on a grand scale: a [[beltway]] was built, and a pedestrian area around the market place was created; the cultural program was extended, and the old town was rehabilitated; new residential zones and business parks were established.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="180" perrow="4">
File:Neustadt an der Aisch, der Nürnberger Tor DmD-5-75-153-73 poging2 foto6 2016-08-05 19.35.jpg|Town gate: das Nürnberger Tor 
File:Neustadt an der Aisch, straatkunst bij die Städthalle met kerktoren DmD-5-75-153-45 op de achtergrond foto7 2016-08-05 20.03.jpg|Street art near der NeustadtHalle
File:Neustadt an der Aisch, bar Uncle Frank met kerktoren DmD-5-75-153-45 op de achtergrond foto9 2016-08-05 20.12.jpg|Bar Uncle Frank (now closed)
File:Neustadt an der Aisch, Wilhelmstraße 1-001.jpg|Sparkasse on market square
</gallery>

==Subdivisions==

*Birkenfeld (including Weiherhof)
*Diebach
*Eggensee (including Chausseehaus)
*Herrnneuses (incl. Oberstrahlbach)
*Kleinerlbach
*Obernesselbach
*Unterschweinach
*Oberschweinach (incl. Stöckach)
*Schauerheim (incl. Hasenlohe and Virnsbergerhaag)
*Schellert
*Unternesselbach

==Notable people==

===Born in Neustadt===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F054635-0014, Ludwigshafen, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Dollinger.jpg|thumb|150px|Werner Dollinger in 1978]]
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* [[Elias Levita]] (1469 in Neustadt an der Aisch or [[Ipsheim]]; 1549 in [[Venice]]; in fact ''Eliyahu ben Asher Ha-Levi''), translator, humanist, Hebrew grammarian, Yiddish writer.<ref>{{cite EB9 |wstitle = Elias Levita |volume= VIII | page=133 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Johannes Gramann]] (also: ''Poliander'', 1487–1541 in [[Königsberg]]), [[Protestant Reformers|Protestant Reformer]] and poet of [[chant]]s
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Lazarus Nürnberger|de}} (born 1499; died c. 1564 in [[Sevilla]]), merchant, in cooperation with Jacob and Hans Cromberger founder of the ''Deutscher Amerikahandel''
* {{ill|Johann Mützel|de}} (1647–1717), master builder of several castles in ernestinian principalities of [[Saxony-Anhalt]] and [[Thuringia]] (e.g. [[Schloss Ettersburg]] near [[Weimar]]), in the principalities [[Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]] and [[Arnstadt]], in [[Schlitz, Hesse|Schlitz]], and in [[Tann (Rhön)]]; builder of the residence of [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe|Goethe]] in Weimar, of the Friedenskirche (church) in [[Jena]] and the Kreuzkirche (church) in [[Eisenach]]
* {{ill|Adolf Scherzer|de}} (1815–1864), composer of the ''[[Bayerischer Defiliermarsch]]''
* [[Werner Dollinger]] (1918–2008), German politician (CSU), member of the [[Bundestag]] (1953–1990), treasury secretary (1962–1966), minister of postal services and telecommunication (1966–1969), minister of transport (1982–1987)
* [[Armin Schwarz]] (born 1963), German rally driver
* [[Julian Gressel]] (born 1993), football player
* [[Niklas Stark]] (born 1995), football player

===Honorary citizens===
*[[Paul von Hindenburg]] (1847–1934), Generalfeldmarschall and President of the German Reich, since 30 March 1933
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Max Döllner|de}} (1874-1959), Oberregierungsrat and Obermedizinalrat, documentarist of his country, since 26 March 1954
*[[Werner Dollinger]] (1918–2008), German politician (CSU), since 10 October 1978

===People otherwise associated with Neustadt an der Aisch===
[[File:Albrecht Achilles Gripsholm.JPG|thumb|150px|Albrecht Achilles and his second wife Anna]]
*[[Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg]] (born 1414 in [[Tangermünde]]; died  1486 in [[Frankfurt|Frankfurt/Main]]), Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, he also ruled the Principality of Ansbach
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Kaspar Löner|de}} (born 1493 in [[Markt Erlbach]]; died 1546), Protestant Reformer in [[Hof, Germany|Hof]]
*[[Peter Kolbe|Peter Kolb]] (born 1675 in Dörflas, today district of [[Marktredwitz]]; died 1726 in Neustadt an der Aisch), teacher and ethnologist
*[[Jean Paul]] (born 1763 in [[Wunsiedel]]; died 1825 in [[Bayreuth]]; in fact ''Johann Paul Friedrich Richter''), author
*[[Hans W. Geißendörfer]] (born 1941 in [[Augsburg]]), film director, author and producer
*[[Guido Knopp]] (born 1948 in Treysa, today's town district of [[Schwalmstadt]]), historian, author and journalist
*[[Lissy Gröner]] (born 1954 in [[Langenfeld, Bavaria|Langenfeld]]; died 2019), German politician ([[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]), Member of the European Parliament 1989-2009
*[[Nevio Passaro]] (born 1981 in [[Bad Windsheim]]), German-Italian singer, songwriter and producer
*[[Augustus Schwaab]] (1823–1899), architect and civil engineer who emigrated to the United States

==Town twinning==
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* {{Flagicon|Italy}} [[Montespertoli]] ([[Italy]]), since 1992
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hino, Shiga|Hino]] ([[Japan]]), since 1997
* {{Flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Hluboká nad Vltavou]] (Frauenberg) ([[Czech Republic]]), since 1997
* {{Flagicon|Croatia}} [[Lipik]] ([[Croatia]]), since 1998
* [[Image:Neustadt in Europa 2006.png|20px|working group [[Neustadt in Europa]]]] Member of the working group Neustadt in Europa, in which '''34 towns''' (as of August 2005) with the name "Neustadt" located in Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia confederate.
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.neustadt-aisch.de official home page of Neustadt an der Aisch]
* [http://www.deutschland-webcam.de/webcams/details-189.html Webcam of the market place].
* [http://wiki.genealogy.net/wiki/Neustadt_an_der_Aisch informations for genealogists in GenWiki].
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