ANSBACH  , or ANsPACH, originally Onolzbach, a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the Rezat, 27 M. by rail S.W. of Nuremberg, and do m . N. of Munich . Pop . (1900) 17,555 . It contains a palace, once the residence of the margraves of Anspach, with fine gardens; several churches, the finest of which are those dedicated to St John, containing the vault of the former margraves, and St Gumbert; a gymnasium; a picture gallery; a municipal museum and a special technicalschool . Ansbach possesses monuments to the poets August, Count von Platen-Hallermund, and Johann Peter Uz, who were born here, and to Kaspar Hauser, who died here . The chief manufactures are machinery, toys; woollen, cotton, and half-silk stuffs, embroideries, earthenware, tobacco, cutlery and playing cards . There is considerable trade in grain, wool and flax . In 1791 the last margrave of Anspach sold his principality to Frederick William II., king of Prussia; it was transferred by Napoleon to Bavaria in ,8o6, an act which was confirmed by the congress of Vienna in 1815 .