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Schwabach
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
Schwabach is a German city of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg, in the center of the region of Franconia in the North of Bavaria. The city is an autonomous administrative district. Schwabach is also the name of a river which runs through the city before it joins the Rednitz. Schwabach is famous for its crafts made of gold and particularly gold foil. In 2004, Schwabach celebrated this tradition with an anniversary festival marking 500 years gold foil in Schwabach. In 2004, its population was 40,431 in an area of 40.8 square kilometers and population density of 990 people per square kilometer.
Around the year 1500, a local typesetter developed the Schwabacher font. This font was used for printing the first bible in German translation, which had been created by Martin Luther. Schwabach is also the birthplace of composer Adolf von Henselt, the botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn, the biologist Ralf Baumeister and one of the founder of the mp3 Bernhard Grill.
It can also be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination that enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.
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