The medical and university town of Erlangen

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Erlangen Castle, seat of the Friedrich-Alexander University © Selby

Erlangen Castle, seat of the Friedrich-Alexander University © Selby

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach. Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants.

Erlangen is today dominated by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the numerous branch offices of Siemens AG, as well as a large research Institute of the Fraunhofer Society and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. An event that left its mark on the city was the settlement of Huguenots after the withdrawal of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

University Archive, former University Library © Akriesch Orangerie © Selby Old water tower on Burgberg © Daniel Arnold Former Brewery Erich © Janericloebe Dechsendorfer Weiher © Erika Rathje City Museum, fomer City Hall © Klaus Graf City Hall © Tilman AB © Janericloebe Erlangen Castle, seat of the Friedrich-Alexander University © Selby
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Erlangen Castle, seat of the Friedrich-Alexander University © Selby
The Bergkirchweih is an annual beer festival, similar to the Oktoberfest in Munich but smaller in scope, therefore rather intimate. It takes place during the twelve days before and after Pentecost; this period is called the “fifth season” by the locals. The beer is served at wooden tables in one-litre stoneware jugs under the trees of the “Berg”, a small, craggy, and wooded hill with old caves (beer cellars) owned by local breweries. The cellars extend for 21 km (14 miles) throughout the hill (the “Berg”) and maintain a constant cool underground temperature. Until Carl von Linde invented the electric fridge in 1871, this was considered to be the biggest fridge in Southern Germany. The beer festival draws more than one million visitors annually. It features carnival rides of high tech quality, food stalls of every imaginable franconian dish like bratwurst, suckling pig, burnt almonds, and giant pretzels.

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