Aub

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Aub (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany, Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Würzburg and Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, near the border of Baden-Württemberg. It is fed by the river Gollach and divided into three parts: Aub, Baldersheim and Burgerroth.

History

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Population

The population has remained relatively stable since 1970, as shown in the following table:

Year Population
1970 1714
1987 1631
2000 1702
2005 1608

Administrative municipality

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Sister city

Landmarks

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Aub has a church and a Jewish cemetery. The main church has a carved wooden altarpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, a late medieval master sculptor in Southern Germany. The town has most of its medieval walls intact, and a small museum in the 'spittalkirche', a medieval monastery-cum-hospice, which served pilgrims and the old and infirm. The museum has objects from Aub's past, and exhibits about caring for the elderly through the centuries (all in German). Aub is the second smallest city in Bavaria.

Notable people

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Johann Adam Schmidt

References

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