Neustadt an der Aisch

Neustadt stands on the Aisch in Franconia, on the road between Würzburg and Nuremberg. Its predecessor Riedfeld was recorded as a royal court in 741, while the name Neustadt appears in 1285. The Hohenzollern burgraves of Nuremberg developed the town as a regional centre, and Margrave Albrecht Achilles and Electress Anna strengthened its defences in the late fifteenth century. Burned in the Second Margrave War in 1553, Neustadt was rebuilt, only to suffer further destruction in the Thirty Years' War. It passed from Prussia through French military rule to Bavaria in 1810.