title: Freystadt
text: # Freystadt
  
      "Freystadt" is also the German names for Kisielice and Kożuchów, Poland.
  
  Freystadt (German pronunciation: (listen); Northern Bavarian: Freystod) is a town in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria. It is situated near the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, 14 km southwest of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km southeast of Nuremberg.
  
  ## Sons and daughters of the city
  
  * Jean Paul Egide Martini (1741-1816), German-French composer
  * Ernst Schweninger (1850-1924), German physician and medical historian, physician of Otto von Bismarck.
  * Hanna Ludwig (1918–2014), contralto and mezzo-soprano, and academic voice teacher
  