DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Bayern	Bavaria
Regierungsbezirk: Mittelfranken
Landkreis: Roth

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Georgensgmünd is situated at an elevation of 360 m at the confluence of the rivers Fränkische Rezat and Schwäbische Rezat into the Rednitz river in the heart of the Franconian Lake District.

Georgensgmünd was first mentioned as Gmündt in a document of 1304. Around the same time the parish church of St. George was founded. Other districts of today's municipality were mentioned also soon after: Rittersbach (Rutersbach, 1312), Hauslach (Hawslach, 1316), Wernsbach and Oberheckenhofen (Oberhekenhouen, 1345), Untersteinbach ob Gmünd (Nydernstaynbach, 1407), Mauk (1411), Petersgmünd (1442). Georgensgmünd became an independent parish in 1367. During the First Margraves' War (1448–1451) between Margrave Albrecht III Alchibiades of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the City of Nuremberg georgensgmünd was looted by Swiss mercenary soldiers of Nuremberg. The first explicit mention of St. George as the patron saint of the church was mentioned in 1480. Together with all other parts of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach Georgensgmünd converted to the Protestant faith in 1527. During the second half of the 16th century a Jewish community was founded. The oldest gravestone in the Jewish cemetery dates from 1596. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Georgensgmünd was looted several times and eventually was left deserted. After the war, many Protestants who had been expelled from the Catholic Austrian countries settled here. In 1791 Georgensgmünd, together with the margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, became part of Prussia. During the Napoleonic times the treaty of Schönbrunn (15th December 1805, see Vienna) stipulated that Prussia had to cede the region to France. After the foundation of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 France ceded the area to Bavaria on the 15th of March 1806. In 1849 the last part of the Bavarian Ludwigs-Nord-Süd-Bahn railroad from Gunzenhausen via Pleinfeld, Georgensgmünd and Roth to Schwabach was opened and Georgensgmünd thus obtained access to the railroad from Augsburg to Munich, Nuremberg and Hof. However, it took until 1858 that the first station in Georgensgmünd was built.

The parish church Sankt Georg [background left] goes back to the early 14th century. The present church was built between 1755 and 1758 by the architect Johann David Steingruber.