What is "schwabach"

Schwabach is a German town of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg in the centre of the region of Franconia in the North of Bavaria. The city is an autonomous administrative district (kreisfreie Stadt). Schwabach is also the name of a river, which runs through the city prior joining the Rednitz.

Schwabach is famous for its crafts made of gold, particularly gold foil. In 2004, Schwabach celebrated this tradition with an anniversary festival, marking "500 years gold foil in Schwabach".

Around 1500, a local typesetter developed the " Schwabacher" font. This font was used for printing the first Bible in German, which had been worked out 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 developers of mp3, Bernhard Grill. It was often visited by Albrecht Dürer.

Schwabach refers to:

• Schwabach, a city in Bavaria, Germany
• Schwabach (Rednitz), a small river near Nuremberg in Bavaria, tributary of the Rednitz
• Schwabach, a black-letter style of printing, once especially popular for printing Sorbian
• Schwabach test, a variant of Rinne test for hearing loss
• Schwabacher, a blackletter typeface