Northern Bavaria

Under Nordbayern means the geographically northern part of the German State and the Free State of Bavaria . These include the administrative districts of Lower Franconia , Middle Franconia and Upper Franconia, which are part of Franconia , as well as Upper Palatinate , which can also be counted as part of Eastern Bavaria .

Offices and authorities with responsibility for Northern Bavaria

• Autobahn Directorate Northern Bavaria
• Mining Authority of Northern Bavaria
• Nuremberg Tax Court
• Regional Labor Court Nuremberg
• Aviation Office Northern Bavaria
• Procurement Chamber of Northern Bavaria
• Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Bavaria

Important cities

The most important city in Northern Bavaria and the second largest city in Bavaria is Nuremberg in Middle Franconia with 518,365 inhabitants. Other large cities in the region are Regensburg (Upper Palatinate) with 152,610 inhabitants, followed by Würzburg (Lower Franconia) with 127,880 inhabitants, Fürth (Middle Franconia) with 127,748 inhabitants and Erlangen (Middle Franconia) with 111,962 inhabitants. With about 70,000 inhabitants, Bamberg , Bayreuth and Aschaffenburg are also among the most important cities, followed by Hof (Saale) in Upper Franconia and Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia with about 50,000 inhabitants.

Important traffic axes

Federal highways

• A 3 Oberhausen - Cologne - Frankfurt am Main - Aschaffenburg - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau
• A 6 Saarbrücken - Mannheim - Heilbronn - Nuremberg - Amberg - Nabburg - Waidhaus - Pilsen (CZ)
• A 7 Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel - Würzburg - Ulm - Allgäu
• A 70 Schweinfurt - Bamberg - Bayreuth
• A 71 Erfurt - Meiningen - Schweinfurt
• A 72 Hof - Plauen - Zwickau - Chemnitz - Borna (- Leipzig completion expected in 2026)
• A 73 Suhl - Coburg - Bamberg - Forchheim - Erlangen - Nuremberg
• A 9 Berlin - Leipzig - Nuremberg

- Munich

• A 93 Autobahn triangle Hochfranken (A72 / A9) - Hof - Weiden - Schwandorf - Regensburg - Autobahn triangle Holledau (A9)

Federal waterways

• Main-Danube Canal - connects the Main near Bamberg with the Danube near Kelheim

Airfields with scheduled air traffic

• Nuremberg Airport - One of the most important international airports in Germany

Overlap with Eastern Bavaria

The Upper Palatinate is combined with Lower Bavaria to form the Eastern Bavaria region , which can be traced back to historical reasons - in the post-war period, both districts were administered jointly. The assignment of the Upper Palatinate to Eastern Bavaria is increasingly taking a back seat to that of Northern Bavaria. One important reason is the economic alignment of the northern and western Upper Palatinate with the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region . In addition, public and semi-public initiatives are increasingly based on the north-south scheme, so that the term Eastern Bavaria is used less and less. More recent examples are the North Bavaria Energy Agency or the North Bavaria Network. On the other hand, the OTH Amberg-Weiden and the OTH Regensburg have been calling each other " Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule " since 2013 .

See also

• Southern Bavaria
• Eastern Bavaria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Not including the city and district of Regensburg
2. ↑ Without jurisdiction of the Regensburg Labor Court
3. ↑ As of December 2010
4. ↑ Association of German Airports : Traffic Figures 2010 (PDF; 126 kB) ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 14, 2011 
5. ↑ Energy Agency North Bavaria. Retrieved November 5, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Network Northern Bavaria. Retrieved November 5, 2014 .