Hersbruck

Hersbruck is a small city in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, belonging to the district Nurnberger Land. It is satisfactory regarded for the past due-gothic artwork of the Hersbruck altar, the "Hirtenmuseum" and the panorama of Hersbruck Switzerland. Hersbruck changed into based in 976 whilst a citadel became constructed there near a bridge. The name possibly comes from Haderihesprucga, the bridge of Haderich. In the Middle Ages the metropolis turned into located at the Golden Route from Nuremberg to Prague, which delivered prosperity to Hersbruck. In 1297 Hersbruck changed into given municipal rights, after 1504 the metropolis belonged to the location of the unfastened imperial town Nuremberg and in 1806 have become Bavarian.

Hersbruck turned into the birthplace, in 1673, of Jacob Paul von Gundling, the well-known and unlucky historian at the court of Brandenburg-Prussia. During the Nazi Regime, Hersbruck turned into a subsidiary camp of Flossenbürg attention camp. The camp had about 10,000 prisoners, approximately 4,000 of them died in Hersbruck. After World War II, that camp, at the outskirts of city, changed into transformed for housing Latvian Displaced Persons and renamed as Camp Kathann. It became first operated via United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and later by means of International Refugee Organization.