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PAPPENHEIM Latitude and Longitude:

48°56′5″N 10°58′28″E / 48.93472°N 10.97444°E / 48.93472; 10.97444
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Pappenheim
Pappenheim Castle
Pappenheim Castle
Coat of arms of Pappenheim
Location of Pappenheim within Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
Gunzenhausen Absberg Alesheim Muhr am See Bergen Burgsalach Dittenheim Ettenstatt Haundorf Heidenheim Höttingen Langenaltheim Markt Berolzheim Meinheim Nennslingen Pappenheim Pfofeld Polsingen Solnhofen Theilenhofen Treuchtlingen Weißenburg in Bayern Westheim Raitenbuch Pleinfeld Gnotzheim Ellingen Donau-Ries Roth (district) Ansbach (district) Eichstätt (district)
Pappenheim is located in Germany
Pappenheim
Pappenheim
Pappenheim is located in Bavaria
Pappenheim
Pappenheim
Coordinates: 48°56′5″N 10°58′28″E / 48.93472°N 10.97444°E / 48.93472; 10.97444
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Mittelfranken
District Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
Subdivisions9 Ortsteile
Government
 •  Mayor (2020–26) Florian Gallus [1] ( CSU)
Area
 • Total64.32 km2 (24.83 sq mi)
Elevation
405 m (1,329 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [2]
 • Total3,969
 • Density62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 ( CET)
 • Summer ( DST) UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
Postal codes
91788
Dialling codes09143
Vehicle registrationWUG
Website www.pappenheim.de

Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, 11 km south of Weißenburg in Bayern.

History

The Jewish cemetery from the 12th century.

Historically, Pappenheim was a statelet within Holy Roman Empire. It was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806.

Counts of Pappenheim settled at the territory, particularly Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim.

Sites

  • Galluskirche
  • Neues Schloss Pappenheim (built by Klenze after the mediatisation of the Pappenheim state. Not open to the public)
  • Altes Schloss

Notable people

The architect and professor Eduard Mezger (1807–1894) was born in Pappenheim.

Else Pappenheim (1911-2009) and her father Martin Pappenheim (1881-1943), both were famous psychoanalysts. [3]

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