Amberg-Sulzbach

District

Flag

Coat of arms

Country

Germany

Founded

1972-07-01

Capital

Amberg

Government

• District admin.

Richard Reisinger (CSU)

Area

• Total

1,255 km² (485 sq mi)

Population (31 December 2015)^[1]

• Total

103,568

• Density

83/km² (210/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Vehicle registration

AS, BUL, ESB, NAB, SUL

Website

kreis-as.de

Amberg-Sulzbach (Northern Bavarian: Amberg-Suizboch) is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the city of Amberg. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Neustadt (Waldnaab), Schwandorf, Neumarkt, Nürnberger Land and Bayreuth.

History

The history is linked with the history of the Upper Palatinate and the city of Amberg.

The district was established in 1972 by merging the former district of Amberg and the district-free city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg (the latter one lost its status as a district-free city in this administrative reform).

Geography

The district is located in the geographical centre of Bavaria, 40 km east of Nuremberg. The main axis of the region is the Vils River (an affluent of the Naab) crossing the district from north to south. West of the river the land rises to the Franconian Jura, while there are gentle hills on the eastern side in the angle between Naab and Vils. The district is mainly covered by forests, especially in its western half.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

The Palatine Lion, which was the heraldic animal of the Upper Palatinate
The lilies, which were a symbol of the counts of Sulzbach
The mining tools, in order to remind of the mining history of the Upper Palatinate

Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Auerbach Hirschau Schnaittenbach Sulzbach-Rosenberg Vilseck	Ammerthal Birgland Ebermannsdorf Edelsfeld Ensdorf Etzelwang Freihung Freudenberg Gebenbach Hahnbach Hirschbach	Hohenburg Illschwang Kastl Königstein Kümmersbruck Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg Poppenricht Rieden Schmidmühlen Ursensollen Weigendorf

References

↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). June 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach.

Official website (German)
Tourist information (German, French; English and Czech versions in process)

Urban and rural districts in the Free State of Bavaria in Germany

Urban districts	Amberg Ansbach Aschaffenburg Augsburg Bamberg Bayreuth Coburg Erlangen Fürth Hof Ingolstadt Kaufbeuren Kempten Landshut Memmingen München (Munich) Nürnberg (Nuremberg) Passau Regensburg Rosenheim Schwabach Schweinfurt Straubing Weiden Würzburg

Rural districts	Aichach-Friedberg Altötting Amberg-Sulzbach Ansbach Aschaffenburg Augsburg Bad Kissingen Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Bamberg Bayreuth Berchtesgadener Land Cham Coburg Dachau Deggendorf Dillingen Dingolfing-Landau Donau-Ries Ebersberg Eichstätt Erding Erlangen-Höchstadt Forchheim Freising Freyung-Grafenau Fürstenfeldbruck Fürth Garmisch-Partenkirchen Günzburg Haßberge Hof Kelheim Kitzingen Kronach Kulmbach Landsberg Landshut Lichtenfels Lindau Main-Spessart Miesbach Miltenberg Mühldorf München (Munich) Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Neumarkt Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim Neustadt an der Waldnaab Neu-Ulm Nürnberger Land Oberallgäu Ostallgäu Passau Pfaffenhofen Regen Regensburg Rhön-Grabfeld Rosenheim Roth Rottal-Inn Schwandorf Schweinfurt Starnberg Straubing-Bogen Tirschenreuth Traunstein Unterallgäu Weilheim-Schongau Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Wunsiedel Würzburg

Coordinates: 49°30′N 11°45′E / 49.5°N 11.75°E / 49.5; 11.75

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 244998864 GND: 4085672-0

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