a pedestrian area around the market place was created; the cultural program was extended, and the old town was rehabilitated; new residential zones and business parks were established. Gallery Subdivisions Birkenfeld (including Weiherhof) Diebach Eggensee (including Chausseehaus) Herrnneuses (incl. Oberstrahlbach) Kleinerlbach Obernesselbach Unterschweinach Oberschweinach (incl. Stöckach) Schauerheim (incl. Hasenlohe and Virnsbergerhaag) Schellert Unternesselbach Notable people Born in Neustadt Elias Levita (1469 in Neustadt an der Aisch or Ipsheim; 1549 in Venice; in fact Eliyahu ben Asher Ha-Levi), translator, humanist, Hebrew grammarian, Yiddish writer Johannes Gramann (also: Poliander, 1487–1541 in Königsberg), Protestant Reformer and poet of chants (born 1499; died c. 1564 in Sevilla), merchant, in cooperation with Jacob and Hans Cromberger founder of the Deutscher Amerikahandel (1647–1717), master builder of several castles in ernestinian principalities of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia (e.g. castle Ettersburg near Weimar), in the principalities Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Arnstadt, in Schlitz, and in Tann (Rhön); builder of the residence of Goethe in Weimar, of the Friedenskirche (church) in Jena and the Kreuzkirche (church) in Eisenach (1815–1864), composer of the Bayerischer Defiliermarsch Werner Dollinger (1918–2008), German politician (CSU), member of the Bundestag (1953–1990), treasury secretary (1962–1966), minister of postal services and telecommunication (1966–1969), minister of transport (1982–1987) Armin Schwarz (born 1963), German rally driver Julian Gressel (born 1993), football player Niklas Stark (born 1995), football player Honorary citizens Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Generalfeldmarschall and President of the German Reich, since 30 March 1933 (1874-1959), Oberregierungsrat and Obermedizinalrat, documentarist of his country, since 26 March 1954 Werner Dollinger (1918–2008), German politician (CSU), since 10 October 1978 People otherwise associated with Neustadt an der Aisch Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414 in Tangermünde; died 1486 in Frankfurt/Main), Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, he also ruled the Principality of Ansbach (born 1493 in Markt Erlbach; died 1546), Protestant Reformer in Hof Peter Kolb (born 1675 in Dörflas, today district of Marktredwitz; died 1726 in Neustadt an der Aisch), teacher and ethnologist Jean Paul (born 1763 in Wunsiedel; died 1825 in Bayreuth; in fact Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), author Hans W. Geißendörfer (born 1941 in Augsburg), film director, author and producer Guido Knopp (born 1948 in Treysa, today's town district of Schwalmstadt), historian, author and journalist Lissy Gröner (born 1954 in Langenfeld; died 2019), German politician (SPD), Member of the European Parliament 1989-2009 Nevio Passaro (born 1981 in Bad Windsheim), German-Italian singer, songwriter and producer Augustus Schwaab (1823–1899), architect and civil