Butzbach

Butzbach consists of the boroughs Bodenrod, Butzbach (urban core), Ebersgöns, Fauerbach vor der Höhe, Griedel, Hausen-Oes, Hoch-Weisel, Kirch-Göns, Maibach, Münster, Nieder-Weisel, Ostheim, Pohl-Göns and Wiesental. ==Twin towns – sister cities==

Butzbach is twinned with: • Collecchio, Italy (2012) • Eilenburg, Germany (1990) • Saint-Cyr-l'École, France (2008) • Teplá, Czech Republic (2008) ==Notable people==

• Gabriel Biel (c. 1420–1495), scholastic philosopher and theologian; longtime Propst of the Brothers of the Common Life in Butzbach • Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812), biblical textual critic. • Friedrich Ludwig Weidig (1791–1837), theologian, pastor and teacher; worked here 22 years as teacher and rector of the school • Lorenz Diefenbach (1806–1883), librarian, pastor, Germanist, lexicographer and writer • Friedrich Schwally (1863–1919), orientalist • Ernst Glaeser (1902–1963), writer • Peter Krick (born 1944), figure skater • Dieter Enders (born 1946), chemist and expert in the field of asymmetric synthesis • Siegfried Zielinski (born 1951), media scientist and university lecturer • Ron Gardenhire (born 1957), baseball manager ==References==