Neuendettelsau

Neuendettelsau is a local authority in Middle Franconia, Germany. Neuendettelsau is situated 20 miles southwest of Nuremberg and 12 miles east of Ansbach. Since 1947 it has a Lutheran seminary (Augustana Hochschule).

Diakonie Neuendettelsau

Reverend Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872) founded in 1854 an institute for deaconesses. The Diakonie Neuendettelsau is one of today’s major independent Christian institutions for social welfare work in Germany and the biggest such enterprise in Bavaria. More than 5,800 employees at numerous institutions in Neuendettelsau and other regions all over Southern Germany and in other European countries take care of the people they are responsible for.

Politics
 First mayor: Gerhard Korn (CSU)
 Second mayor: Gottwald Dötzer (SPD)
 Third mayor: Wernher Geistmann (CSU)

Sister city
  Treignac (France), since 1996

Notable people
 Karl-Friedrich Beringer, choirmaster of the Windsbacher Knabenchor :de:Windsbacher Knabenchor
 Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe, Lutheran pastor and theologian.
 Walter Burkert, world-famous German scholar of ancient Greek mythology and religion.

Literature
 Matthias Honold, Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): 700 Jahre Neuendettelsau, Neuendettelsau 1998.
 Hans Rößler (Hrsg.): Unter Stroh- und Ziegeldächern. Aus der Neuendettelsauer Geschichte, Neuendettelsau  1982.

References

External links

 Homepage of the local authority Neuendettelsau
 Diakonie Neuendettelsau
 Löhe-Zeit-Museum Neuendettelsau
 Virtual museum of Neuendettelsau