Weißenburg in Bayern Weißenburg in Bayern Weißenburg in Bayern (formerly also "Weißenburg im Nordgau") is a town in Middle Franconia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. In 2010 its population was 17,513. Weißenburg was a Free Imperial City for 500 years. Weissenburg is located in central Bavaria, in the south of the administrative region Mittelfranken. Large cities in the area are Ingolstadt (55.5 km), Nuremberg (61.7 km), Augsburg (85 km), Munich (134.6 km) and Würzburg (150.4 km). The municipality is divided into 27 "Ortsteile": the main town and the 26 villages of Dettenheim, Emetzheim, Gänswirtshaus, Haardt, Hagenbuch, Hammermühle, Hattenhof, Häuser
German name table gives the most popular given names in Germany per decade (since 1890), and the most recent ranking, as of 2014.: Surnames ("family name"; "Nachname", "Familienname") were gradually introduced in German-speaking Europe during the Late Middle Ages. Many of such surnames are derived from nicknames. They are generally classified into four groups by derivation: given names, job designations, bodily attributes, and toponyms (including references to named buildings). Also, many family names display characteristic features of the dialect of the region they originated in. The preposition "von" ("of") was used to distinguish Nobility; for example, if someone was baron of the