Abenberg (German: [ˈaːbm̩bɛʁk] ⓘ) is a town in the Middle Franconian district of Roth, in Bavaria, Germany.

The Old High German base word "Berg" means a larger hill, or later a castle.

Within the next 150 years, members of the Abenberger family, including stewards of the Hochstift of Bamberg, the Bishop of Würzburg Reginhard, an abbess in Kitzingen, and other high dignitaries, emerged.

The city was the administrative seat of the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt and, beginning in 1500 it belonged to the Franconian Circle.

The high court and city lordship were exercised by the Eichstätt district office of Abenberg.

Today, the House of Franconian History, the Abenberg Lace Museum, and a hotel with a restaurant are located there.

The city is around 25 kilometers southwest of Nuremberg and ten kilometers west of the district town of Roth, on the northern edge of the Franconian Lake District, broadly seen between the Frankenhöhe in the northwest, Nuremberg in the north and the Franconian Jura in the south and east.