Weißenburg in Bayern, District capital in Middle Franconia, Germany
Weißenburg in Bayern is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district of Middle Franconia with around nineteen thousand residents. The municipality comprises twenty-seven localities including Dettenheim, Emetzheim and Gänswirthshaus that together form the urban area.
The site began in the first century as a Roman fort called Biriciana and grew over the centuries into a fortified settlement. From 1296 to 1803 the town held the status of Free Imperial City and kept its independence within the Holy Roman Empire.
The Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum preserves regional artifacts while the Ellinger Tor gate and medieval structures represent architectural traditions spanning multiple centuries.
The town sits roughly fifty kilometers south of Nuremberg at an elevation of about four hundred and twenty meters. Visitors can walk through the various localities and follow the connection between older cores and newer residential areas.
The Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum displays finds from Roman times and offers insight into the long settlement of the area. The Ellinger Tor marks one of the entrances to the medieval town fortifications and still stands today as a visible sign of former defenses.
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