Erlangen, Germany Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Just 20km north of Nürnberg, and now regarded as an integral part of its conurbation, ERLANGEN is nevertheless a town with its own distincitve history, traditions and appearance. Following the ending of religious toleration in France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1683, a large number of Huguenots settled here at the invitation of Margrave Christian Ernst of Bayreuth. A new planned town of regular streets and squares in the sober Baroque style then current in Protestant circles was built to accommodate them; this was extended to cover the whole of the city when the medieval Altstadt was … more »