Pappenheim
Town
Pappenheim Castle
Coat of arms
Location of Pappenheim within Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
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Coordinates: 48°56′5″N 10°58′28″E / 48.93472°N 10.97444°E / 48.93472; 10.97444
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Mittelfranken
District	Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
Subdivisions	9 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2020–26)	Florian Gallus[1] (CSU)
Area
• Total	64.32 km2 (24.83 sq mi)
Elevation	405 m (1,329 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	3,969
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	91788
Dialling codes	09143
Vehicle registration	WUG
Website	www.pappenheim.de

Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, 11 km south of Weißenburg in Bayern.

History

Historically, Pappenheim was a statelet within Holy Roman Empire. It was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806.

Counts of Pappenheim settled at the territory, particularly Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim.

Sites

• Galluskirche
• Neues Schloss Pappenheim (built by Klenze after the mediatisation of the Pappenheim state. Not open to the public)
• Altes Schloss

Notable people

The architect and professor Eduard Mezger (1807–1894) was born in Pappenheim.

Else Pappenheim (1911-2009) and her father Martin Pappenheim (1881-1943), both were famous psychoanalysts.^[3]

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