Ebrach

Ebrach is a community with market rights in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Ebrach.GeographyEbrach lies between Bamberg in the east and Würzburg in the west. It is located in the Steigerwald on the Mittlere Ebrach (river).Constituent communitiesEbrach’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Ortsteile with a population of 1,078. The market community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure:Buch bei Ebrach: 55Eberau bei Ebrach: 122Großbirkach: 68Großgressingen: 251Hof bei Ebrach: 15Kleinbirkach: 36Kleingressingen: 40Meierei bei Ebrach: 7Neudorf bei Ebrach: 93Schmerb: 4Winkelhof: 6 The community also has five traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Buch, Ebrach, Großbirkach, Großgressingen and Neudorf bei Ebrach, the same names as five of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).