Ebern is a town in the Haßberge district, in Bavaria

Bavaria

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, Germany

Germany

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. It is situated 22 km southwest of Coburg

Coburg

Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

 and 23 km northwest of Bamberg

Bamberg

Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...

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The population of Ebern is about 8,000 people. Its mayor is Robert Herrmann.

Ebern is about 1,000 years old. It has an intact defense wall. Ebern was named after a boar ("Eber" in German).

Villages of Ebern

Besides the town of Ebern, the municipality of Ebern has 18 villages in its 95 km2 area:

Albersdorf Bischwind a. Raueneck Bramberg Brünn Eichelberg

Eyrichshof with Rotenhan, Kurzewind and Siegelfeld Fierst Fischbach Frickendorf Heubach

Höchstädten Jesserndorf Neuses a. Raueneck Reutersbrunn Ruppach Unterpreppach

Vorbach Weißenbrunn with Gemünd and Welkendorf

Besides the beautiful castle Eyrichshof and the more modest castle/manor house Fischbach, Ebern has some of the most interesting castle ruins: Burg Bramberg

Burg Bramberg

Burg Bramberg is a ruin of a Würzburg castle in the Haßberge in Landkreis Haßberge in Unterfranken, Bavaria Germany.The ruin is located on the Bramberg . It is about 2 km north west of the village of Bramberg, part of the municipality of Ebern...

, Burg Rotenhan

Burg Rotenhan

Rotenhan Castle is a castle ruin about two kilometres north of the village of Eyrichshof in Lower Franconia in the south German state of Bavaria. Eyrichshof lies within the borough of Ebern in the district of Haßberge...

 and Raueneck.

Creation legend

The legend

Legend

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 is that one day two hunters were chasing a wild boar

Boar

Wild boar, also wild pig, is a species of the pig genus Sus, part of the biological family Suidae. The species includes many subspecies. It is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig, an animal with which it freely hybridises...

. It was finally hit, but with two spear

Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or...

s, one from each of the hunters. They could not decide who threw the spear that caused the boar to die

Death

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. The boar finally broke down exactly at the border between Seßlach

Seßlach

Seßlach is a town in the district of Coburg, in northern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 12 km southwest of Coburg.Seßlach consists of 15 parts:-History:...

 and Ebern, with its head in Ebern, and its body in Seßlach, so they divided it. That's why the town

Town

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 Ebern is named after the boar, and the town's flag

Flag

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 carries the head

Head

In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose and mouth . Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do....

of the boar.