Helmbrechts is a town in the district of Hof

Hof (district)

Hof is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Wunsiedel, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Kronach, the states of Thuringia and Saxony , and the Czech Republic...

, in Bavaria

Bavaria

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, Germany

Germany

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. It is situated on the Southern edge of the Frankenwald

Frankenwald

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, 20 km southwest of Hof

Hof, Germany

Hof is a city located on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconia region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions....

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The first documented mention of Helmbrechts dates back to 1232. Township was granted to Helmbrechts by Count Friedrich V. of Nürnberg in the year 1422. Helmbrechts has been in Bavarian rule since 1810. During World War II

World War II

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, Helmbrechts was the host of a sub-camp from Flossenbürg (see Helmbrechts concentration camp

Helmbrechts concentration camp

Helmbrechts concentration camp was a women's subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded near Hof, Germany in the summer of 1944. The first prisoners who came to the camp were political prisoners from the Ravensbrück camp in northern Germany....

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The city districts

With the local government reorganization in 1972, the following villages were merged to Helmbrechts' district:

Absang	Almbranz	Altsuttenbach	Baiergrün	Bärenbrunn	Bischofsmühle	Buckenreuth
Burkersreuth	Dreschersreuth	Edlendorf	Einzigenhöfen	Enchenreuth	Geigersmühle	Gösmes
Günthersdorf	Haide	Hohberg	Jägersruh	Kleinschwarzenbach	Kollerhammer	Kriegsreuth
Lehsten	Oberbrumberg	Oberweißenbach	Ochsenbrunn	Ort	Ottengrün	Rappetenreuth
Rauhenberg	Schlegelmühle	Suttenbach	Stechera	Taubaldsmühle	Unterbrumberg	Unterweißenbach
Wüstenselbitz	Zimmermühle