Neunkirchen am Brand is located in the southwesterly boundaries of the administrative area of „Oberfranken“, 12 km east of the university city of Erlangen at the base of the Hetzlas mountain. The municipalty district envelopes 26,37 km², neighbouring the municipalities of Igensdorf, Gräfenberg, Kleinsendelbach, Dormitz, Uttenreuth, Marloffstein, Langensendelbach und Hetzles.
The landscape is marked by the Hetzlas and Lindelberg mountains. They border the “Fränkische Schweiz” and belong partly to the Neunkirchen district. That is the reason why Neunkirchen is also called the gate to the “Fränkische Schweiz”.
With its population of 8.000 Neunkirchen is second only to Forchheim in the rural district. Its position between Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen led to an over-average housing developement (see aerial).

Neunkirchen am Brand consists of the incorporated villages (in 1972) Ermreuth, Gleisenhof, Großenbuch, Rödlas, Ebersbach, Baad, Rosenbach, Wellucken and Vogelhof, beside the main market-town. The market can be reached by the roads 2240 Erlangen – Gräfenberg and 2243 Forchheim – Forth, as well as other secondary roads. The public bus service is provided by the OVF with busses to Forchheim and Erlangen. Neunkirchen is part of the 1997 initiated historical “Burgenstraße” from Mannheim to Prague.

At November 22nd , 1886 the villages along the river “Schwabach” were connected by a secondary railway line to the main sections of German railway network. This historically known “Seku” brought together Erlangen, Neunkirchen, Eschenau and Gräfenberg until February 18th , 1963. The rails are completely dismanteled by now and gave way to motorcar traffic.

Public institutions are:
An elementary school with gymnasium,
an intermediate school with triple-gymnasium for bigger events,
three kindergartens with a total of eleven groups,
an institution for aged people with 80 beds,
a library with more than 20.000 media,
a catholic and a protestant church and community centres and
a post office.
There are several general practitioners, dentists, two pharmacies and a medical massage centre, five banking establishments and all sorts of supply in service, trade and industry.

About 1.300 people find work in nearly 200 different lines of business. The number will hopefully increase in future, as there is an enlargement of the industrial area in preparation.

The charming landscape of Neunkirchen serves as a close by recreational area with swimming facilities, tennis courts, soccer grounds, walking ways, ski and tobboganing hills, as well as a landing ground for sports-planes of the “Fliegerclub Nürnberg”.
Pleasant resaurants and public houses invite you to stay. Numerous festivals offer a variety of entertainment, as for example the “Neunkirchner Bürger- und Heimatfest” always does at the third weekend in July.

The continuous architecture with old and new timberframe houses, the still well preserved four archway buildings and parts of the battlement with remains of original bulwarks (16th century), give the town centre of the historical market an almost medieval impression. Looking back onto almost 900 years of history, the imposing parish church St. Michael, with chapter-house (former monastery, premises of the Augustinus canon), contains abundant art collections.
More historical buildings are to be found in the town centre, such as the profanated chapel of Katherine, middle of the 15th century, now a lobby for culture, the 16th century monasteries “Zehentscheune” (~ thenth-granary), the former administrative building (1734, Baroque), the equally baroque town-hall (1718) and the monasteries school building, constructed in 1615, which is now the town-hall. Located east of the town centre, at the foot of the “Gugelberg” is the is the “Heiliggrabkapelle” (chapel of the Holy Grave), built in 1628. At the moment, the whole town centre ist being remoulded by the state.