ERLANGEN

city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany, at the junction of the Schwabach and Regnitz rivers, just north of Nrnberg. Founded in the 8th century, it was transferred from the bishopric of Wrzburg to that of Bamberg in 1017 and was sold to the king of Bohemia in 1361. Chartered in 1398, it passed to the Hohenzollern burgraves of Nrnberg in 1402 and to Bavaria in 1810. It owes the foundations of its prosperity chiefly to the French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in 1686 in Christian Erlang, which united with Erlangen in 1824. Erlangen is divided into an Altstadt (Old Town) and a Neustadt (New Town), Christian Erlang. Notable buildings include the town hall (1731) and the former palace (170004) of the margraves of Kulmbach-Bayreuth, now the main building of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nrnberg (founded in 1742 at Bayreuth and moved to Erlangen in 1743). The production of gloves, hats, and drapery dates back to the Huguenots. Modern industry includes the manufacture of electromedical apparatus. The city has a port on the Main-Danube Canal. Pop. (1991 est.) 102,440.