Kulmbach

Kulmbach
Town
Plassenburg Castle
Coat of arms
Location of Kulmbach within Kulmbach district
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Coordinates: 50°06′N 11°26′E / 50.100°N 11.433°E / 50.100; 11.433
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Kulmbach
Subdivisions	37 Ortsteile
Government
• Lord mayor (2020–26)	Ingo Lehmann[1] (SPD)
Area
• Total	92.77 km2 (35.82 sq mi)
Elevation	325 m (1,066 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	25,818
• Density	280/km2 (720/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	95312–95326
Dialling codes	09221
Vehicle registration	KU
Website	www.kulmbach.de/xist4c/web/Town-Hall_id_13355_.htm

Kulmbach is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. The town is famous for Plassenburg Castle, which houses the largest tin soldier museum in the world, and for its sausages, or Bratwürste.

Kulmbach is in the middle of the Bavarian province of Upper Franconia, about 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) northwest of the city of Bayreuth. To the south of Kulmbach, the River Main begins at the convergence of its headstreams, the White Main and Red Main.

Kulmbach is divided into the following districts (with population in brackets):

• Deutscher Städteatlas (1989). Band: IV; 9 Teilband. Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Societatis Historicorum Internationalis - Serie C. Im Auftrag des Kuratoriums für vergleichende Städtegeschichte e.V. und mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, hrsg. von Heinz Stoob †, Wilfried Ehbrecht, Jürgen Lafrenz und Peter Johannek. Stadtmappe Kulmbach, Author: Friedrich Bernward Fahlbusch. ISBN 3-89115-039-3, Dortmund-Altenbeken 1989.
• Bogner, Franz X. (2006). Der Obermain. Ein Luftbildporträt von Bayreuth bis Bamberg. Ellwanger-Verlag, Bayreuth, ISBN 3-925361-57-X.

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Kulmbach in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)

• Official website (in German)
• From the History of Kulmbach (Upper Main Landscape Museum)
• Live webcam with view of the market square Archived 2014-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
• "Kulmbach: History of the coat-of-arms" (in German). Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte.
• History of Kulmbach: [1]