Wüstenrot is a municipality in the Mainhardt Forest with about 6,800 inhabitants, more than half of them in small incorporated villages. The village is the birthplace of the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse (Wüstenrot Building Society).
6-585: Wüstenrot is in the forest in the southeast of the district of Heilbronn in the natural region of the Swabian-Franconian Forest . The River Rot runs through central Wüstenrot. Wüstenrot consists of the five towns (and former municipalities) Wüstenrot, Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and the abandoned village of Neuhütte in Joachimstal. Neighboring cities and municipalities of Wüstenrot are (moving clockwise , starting in
12-416: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Heilbronn (district) Landkreis Heilbronn ( German pronunciation: [haɪlˈbʁɔn] ) is a Landkreis (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg , Germany . Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Neckar-Odenwald , Hohenlohe , Schwäbisch Hall , Rems-Murr , Ludwigsburg , Enz , Karlsruhe and Rhein-Neckar . In
18-606: The centre of it is the free-city of Heilbronn , which is its own separate administrative area. The predecessor to the district is the Oberamt Heilbronn , which was created in 1803 when the previously Free Imperial City of Heilbronn was incorporated into the Electorate of Württemberg . In 1926, about half of the Oberamt (old district) of Weinsberg was added. In 1938, it was recognized as a district, and in addition to
24-652: The district, which got its current borders in 1975. The main river in the district is the Neckar , which flows through the district from the south to the north. The western part of the district belongs to the landscape Kraichgau , the east to the Hohenloher Ebene , Kocher-Jagst-Ebene , and the Löwensteiner Berge . The coat of arms shows a clawless eagle, the symbol of the Counts of Lauffen, who ruled
30-479: The previous Oberamt, parts of the dissolved Oberämter Neckarsulm, Brackenheim, Marbach and Besigheim were added. The city of Heilbronn was not included in the district. In 1973, the Landkreise (districts) were reorganized, and part of the dissolved districts of Sinsheim, Mosbach, Buchen and Schwäbisch Hall were added. Within the following two years 5 municipalities were incorporated into the city and therefore left
36-580: The west) the towns of Beilstein and Löwenstein (both in Heilbronn), Bretzfeld ( Hohenlohe ), Mainhardt ( Schwäbisch Hall ), Großerlach and Spiegelberg (within Rems-Murr-Kreis ) and Oberstenfeld (Prevorst district, Ludwigsburg ). The community of Wüstenrot (as of 2006) has 4,971 inhabitants, 2,952 of which in the Wüstenrot proper. This Heilbronn district location article
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