Fürth

Fürth (Bavaria) is a town of Average-Franconie ( Mittelfranken ) to approximately 5 km in the west of Nuremberg. Currently, Fürth counts approximately 112 500 inhabitants (January 2005). It is, after Nuremberg, the second plus big city of Average-Franconie and the seventh of Bavaria.

Famous characters

In Fürth were born:

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809 - 1885], Pathologist and Anatomist
Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977), German Chancellor
Henry Kissinger (1923 -), Foreign Minister of the United States ( United States Secretary off State ) of September 1973 at January 1977, diplomatic American, Nobel Prize of peace
Dietmar Beiersdorfer, (1963 -), ex-footballer and currently sport director of the German club Hamburger SV

Twinning

Aspect

Contrary to many German cities, Fürth was hardly struck by the bombardments of the second world war. And thus the aspect of Fürth preserved its historical identity.

Nature

In 1999 was creates in Fürth the way of ecological municipal teaching. Three km length, this turn include/understand ten ecological stages. Second a seven km length road was inaugurated during the year 2003. This one also offers to the hikers ten informative stations of environment. The starting point of these two ways is at the subway station Stadthalle. During the way of teaching various Biotope S urban is explained in detail highlighting their value for the local flora and fauna. The hiker learns that the cemetery of the city is an important sanctuary for the squirrel S or that the court of the Church St Michel shelters several species of songbirds which appreciate the hollows of the old trees like nests or refuges. The teaching path deals with also current ecological problems, such as for example the Réaménagement of the course of a river and out of watch clearly the consequences for the Biodiversité regional and national. The idea to put the urban Niche S ecological at the center of the formation out-of-school led to this exceptional project, which knows a popularity extending well beyond this city.

External bonds

official Internet site of the town of Fürth

http://www.michaeliskirchweih.de/ - homepage der Michaeliskirchweih

http://www.rundfunkmuseum.fuerth.de/ - Rundfunkmuseum der Stadt Fürth
http://www.dr-alexander-mayer.de/ - homepage of Stadtheimatpflegers
http://www.flussbad-fuerth.de/ - Flußbad Fürth, Ein Kapitel Stadtgeschichte
http://www.altstadtverein-fuerth.de/ - Geschichte und Denkmalpflege
http://www.geschichte-fuer-alle.de/sg/furth/00.htm - Touristischer Rundgang zur Geschichte der Stadt-->
Page devoted to the millenium of the city ([[2007])]

http://www.meinestadt.de/fuerth-bayern/bilder/ - Bildersammlung

http://www.feuerwehr-fuerth.org/ - Webseite der Fürther Feuerwehren-->

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