Bayreuth (district)

Bayreuth
District

Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Adm. region	Oberfranken
Capital	Bayreuth
Area
• Total	1,273 km² (492 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2015)^[1]
• Total	104,306
• Density	82/km² (210/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	BT, EBS, ESB, KEM, MÜB, PEG
Website	www.landkreis-bayreuth.de

Bayreuth is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds, but does not include the city of Bayreuth. The district is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kulmbach, Hof, Wunsiedel, Tirschenreuth, Neustadt/Waldnaab, Amberg-Sulzbach, Nürnberger Land, Forchheim and Bamberg.

History

The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Bayreuth and Pegnitz, adding the town Gefrees of the former district of Münchberg and the town of Speichersdorf of the former district of Kemnath.

Geography

The sources of the White Main and the Red Main are both located in the district. The Red Main rises in the very south in the hills of the Frankish Alb, the White Main has its source in the Fichtel Mountains in the east. Both rivers run to the northwest, but do not meet within the district's borders.

The valley of the Red Main separates the two major geographical regions of the district from each other: the hilly countryside of the [Franconian Jura]]and the much higher Fichtel Mountains.

Within the county lies the Veldenstein Forest, one of the largest contiguous areas of woodland in Bavaria.

Coat of arms

The arms display the heraldic eagle of the Hohenzollern dynasty together with the white and blue pattern of Bavaria.

Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Bad Berneck Betzenstein Creußen Gefrees Goldkronach Hollfeld Pegnitz Pottenstein Waischenfeld	Ahorntal Aufseß Bindlach Bischofsgrün Eckersdorf Emtmannsberg Fichtelberg Gesees Glashütten Haag Heinersreuth Hummeltal	Kirchenpingarten Mehlmeisel Mistelbach Mistelgau Plankenfels Plech Prebitz Schnabelwaid Seybothenreuth Speichersdorf Warmensteinach Weidenberg

Sights

	Schloss Aufseß	Aufseß
	Schloss Fantaisie	Eckersdorf
	Schloss Freienfels	Hollfeld
	Hollfeld	Hollfeld
	Pegnitz	Pegnitz
	Burg Pottenstein	Pottenstein
	Teufelshöhle	Pottenstein
	Tüchersfeld	Pottenstein
	Burg Waischenfeld	Waischenfeld
	Schloss Wiesentfels	Hollfeld

References

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landkreis Bayreuth.

Official website (German)

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

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 128990346 GND: 1003703-2

Coordinates: 49°55′N 11°30′E / 49.92°N 11.5°E / 49.92; 11.5

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