Pleinfeld

Pleinfeld is a Franconian municipality and market town in Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria. It is in the Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg and in the Franconian Lake District.
Geography.
Pleinfeld is in central Bavaria, in the south of the administrative region Middle Franconia. The municipal area borders on the neighbouring Bavarian district Roth. Neighbouring townships are Pfofeld, Ellingen, Ettenstatt, Höttingen, Absberg, Spalt, Heideck and Röttenbach. The landscape is hilly and forested.
Pleinfeld is on the rivers Swabian Rezat and Arbach, north of Weißenburg in Bayern, and south of Nuremberg. Other rivers in the municipality area are Brombach river and Banzerbach river, both tributary of the Swabian Rezat. The town's altitude is about above sea level. The highest point of the municipality is near Dorsbrunn, asl. Pleinfeld is the biggest town at the Großer Brombachsee, a lake in the Franconian Lake District. Simultaneously, Pleinfeld is on the most Norther part of the Altmühl Valley Nature Park.
Administrative subdivisions.
Pleinfeld has 35 subdivisions:
Twin towns and cities.
Pleinfeld is twinned with:
Local Dialect.
The local dialect of the region is East Franconian German, referred to in German as "Fränkisch", with Pleinfeld being at the southern point of its extension. Traveling south, people speak Bavarian German and Alemannic German dialects.