Freystadt is a town in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, 14 km southwest of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km southeast of Nuremberg.Sons and daughters of the city Jean Paul Egide Martini (1741-1816), German-French composer Ernst Schweninger (1850-1924), German physician and medical historian, physician of Otto von Bismarck.