Pleinfeld

Pleinfeld is a Franconian municipality and market town in Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria. It is in the Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg and in the Franconian Lake District.

Geography
Pleinfeld is in central Bavaria, in the south of the administrative region Middle Franconia. The municipal area borders on the neighbouring Bavarian district Roth. Neighbouring townships are Pfofeld, Ellingen, Ettenstatt, Höttingen, Absberg, Spalt, Heideck and Röttenbach. The landscape is hilly and forested.

Pleinfeld is on the rivers Swabian Rezat and Arbach,  north of Weißenburg in Bayern, and  south of Nuremberg. Other rivers in the municipality area are Brombach river and Banzerbach river, both tributary of the Swabian Rezat. The town's altitude is about  above sea level. The highest point of the municipality is near Dorsbrunn,  asl. Pleinfeld is the biggest town near the Großer Brombachsee, a lake in the Franconian Lake District. Pleinfeld  is also next to the most northern part of the Altmühl Valley Nature Park.

 Administrative subdivisions 
Pleinfeld has 35 subdivisions:Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online

 Allmannsdorf
 Banzermühle
 Birklein 
 Böschleinsmühle
 Dorsbrunn
 Engelreuth
 Erlingsdorf
 Gündersbach
 Heinzenmühle
 Hohenweiler
 Kemnathen
 Ketschenmühle
 Kleinweingarten
 Langweidmühle
 Mackenmühle
 Mandlesmühle
 Mannholz
 Mäusleinsmühle
 Mischelbach
 Pleinfeld
 Prexelmühle
 Ramsberg am Brombachsee
 Regelsberg 
 Reichertsmühle
 Roxfeld
 Sankt Veit
 Schloss Sandsee
 Seemannsmühle
 Stirn
 Utzenmühle
 Veitserlbach
 Walkerszell
 Walting
 Wurmmühle

Twin towns and cities
Pleinfeld is twinned with:
  - Killarney Ireland

Local Dialect
The local dialect of the region is East Franconian German, referred to in German as Fränkisch, with Pleinfeld being at the southern point of its extension. Traveling south, people speak Bavarian German and Alemannic German dialects.

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References

Other websites

Category:Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen