Landkreis Heilbronn () is a
''Landkreis'' (district) in the north of
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
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Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise)
Neckar-Odenwald
Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from east clockwise) Main-Tauber-Kreis, Hohenlohe-Kreis, Heilbronn, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Odenwaldkreis (Hesse) and Landk ...
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Hohenlohe
The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire which was divided between several branches. The Hohenlohes became imperial counts in 1450. The county was divided numerous tim ...
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Schwäbisch Hall
Schwäbisch Hall (; "Swabian Hall"; from 1802 until 1934 and colloquially: ''Hall'' ) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg located in the valley of the Kocher river, the longest tributary (together with its headwater Lein) of the ...
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Rems-Murr
Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the dis ...
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Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...
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Enz
The Enz is a river flowing north from the Black Forest to the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg.
It is 106 km long.
Its headstreams – the Little Enz (german: Kleine Enz) and the Great Enz or Big Enz (''Große Enz'') – rise in the Northern B ...
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Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
and
Rhein-Neckar
The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (german: Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, ), often referred to as Rhein-Neckar-Triangle, is a polycentric metropolitan region located in south western Germany, between the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region to the North ...
. In the centre of it is the free-city of
Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state.
From the late Mid ...
, which is its own separate administrative area.
History
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
The Electorate of Württemberg was a short-lived state of the Holy Roman Empire on the right bank of the Rhine. In 1803, Napoleon raised the Duchy of Württemberg to the Electorate of Württemberg, the highest form of a princedom in the Holy Roman ...
. 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 the previous Oberamt, parts of the dissolved Oberämter Neckarsulm, Brackenheim, Marbach and Besigheim were added. The city of Heilbronn was not included into 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 the district, which got its current borders in 1975.
Geography
The main river in the district is the
Neckar
The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ...
, 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''.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a clawless eagle, the symbol of the Counts of Lauffen, who ruled the area of the district in the 13th century.
Towns and municipalities
Towns (''Städte''):
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Bad Friedrichshall
Bad Friedrichshall () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated at the confluences of the Jagst and of the Kocher into the Neckar, some north of Heilbronn. Bad Friedrichshall arose by ...
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Bad Rappenau
Bad Rappenau (; South Franconian: ''Rappene'') is a city municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated about northwest of Heilbronn.
Geography
Bad Rappenau is situated in the northeastern ...
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Bad Wimpfen
Bad Wimpfen () is a historic spa town in the district of Heilbronn in the Baden-Württemberg region of southern Germany. It lies north of the city of Heilbronn, on the river Neckar.
Geography
Bad Wimpfen is located on the west bank of the River ...
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Beilstein
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Brackenheim
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Eppingen
Eppingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The town has the second-largest population in the district.
Eppingen lies in the Kraichgau, a hilly region in southwestern Germany, close to the conflu ...
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Güglingen
Güglingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 18 km southwest of Heilbronn.
Geography
Güglingen is situated in a valley called Zabergäu in the southwest district of Heilbron ...
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Gundelsheim
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Lauffen
Lauffen am Neckar () or simply Lauffen is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the river Neckar, southwest of Heilbronn. The town is famous as the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and for its ...
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Leingarten
Leingarten () is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 7 km west of Heilbronn. It was formed 1 January 1970, when the municipalities of Großgartach and Schluchtern merged.
Geography
Location
Lei ...
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Löwenstein
Löwenstein () is a city in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was first mentioned in 1123. The castle of Löwenstein served as a residence for the counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim. In 1634 the castle was destroyed by the ...
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Möckmühl
Möckmühl is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Jagst, 22 km northeast of Heilbronn.
Local council
Elections in 2014:
* Free voters: 8 seats
* Citizen list/CDU: 6 seats
* G ...
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Neckarsulm
Neckarsulm () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Heilbronn, and part of the district of Heilbronn. , Neckarsulm had 26,800 inhabitants. The name Neckarsulm derives from the city's location where the Neckar and Sulm rivers ...
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Neudenau
Neudenau () is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, ...
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Neuenstadt am Kocher
Neuenstadt, usually known as Neuenstadt am Kocher (; and until as late as 1800 also known as Neuenstadt an der großen Linde) is a town in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany with 9,600 inhabitants. It consists of Neuenstadt, the village ...
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Schwaigern
Schwaigern () is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 12 km west of Heilbronn.
Geography
Neighbouring municipalities
The neighbouring towns and municipalities of Schwaigern (clockwise) are: Leing ...
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Weinsberg
Weinsberg (South Franconian: ''Weischberg'') is a town in the north of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It was founded around 1200 and is situated in the Heilbronn district. The town has about 11,800 inhabitants. It is noted for its win ...
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Widdern
Municipalities (''Gemeinden''):
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Abstatt
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Cleebronn
Cleebronn () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Geography
Cleebronn is in the Zabergäu in the south of the district of Heilbronn, directly in the north of the Stromberg mountain with an e ...
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Eberstadt
Eberstadt () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump meeting (the Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt
The Internationales ...
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Ellhofen
Ellhofen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe af ...
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Erlenbach (Württemberg)
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Flein
Flein () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Geography
Flein is situated in the south of the district of Heilbronn and directly borders on to Heilbronn in the south.
Neighbouring municip ...
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Gemmingen
Gemmingen (; South Franconian: ''Gemminge'') is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second m ...
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Hardthausen (Kocher)
Hardthausen am Kocher is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in ...
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Ilsfeld
Ilsfeld is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, on the outer edge of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. In addition to the village of Ilsfeld proper, it includes the formerly independent settlements of Aue ...
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Ittlingen
Ittlingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
From 1355, Ittlingen was a possession of the . Their rule ended in 1806, when the Gemmingens' properties were mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden. I ...
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Jagsthausen
Jagsthausen is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (; 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as the president of Germany from ...
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Kirchardt
Kirchardt () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Geography
Kirchardt is in the north-west of Heilbronn and belongs to the outskirts of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. Starting in the north and proceeding ...
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Langenbrettach
Langenbrettach () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe afte ...
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Lehrensteinsfeld
Lehrensteinsfeld is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Euro ...
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Massenbachhausen
Massenbachhausen is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europ ...
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Neckarwestheim
Neckarwestheim is a municipality with 3524 inhabitants in the Heilbronn district, Baden-Württemberg, in south-west Germany. It is located on the Neckar river and is well known as the location of a nuclear power station, the Neckarwestheim Nucle ...
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Nordheim (Württemberg)
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Obersulm
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Oedheim
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Offenau
Offenau () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russi ...
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Pfaffenhofen
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Roigheim
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Siegelsbach
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Talheim
Talheim () is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is commonly known for its wine, the tennis tournament Intersport Heilbronn Open, Heilbronn ...
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Untereisesheim
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Untergruppenbach
Untergruppenbach () is a municipality near Heilbronn, a city in the northern half of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
There are a total of 7,600 inhabitants living in six villages that form the municipality of Untergruppenbach. Approxim ...
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Wüstenrot
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).
Geography
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Zaberfeld
Zaberfeld () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Geography
Zaberfeld lies in the Zabergäu, in the southwestern corner of the Heilbronn district, at the head of the Zaber river.
Neighboring communities
Zabe ...
Municipal associations (''Vereinbarte Verwaltungsgemeinschaften'' and ''Gemeindeverwaltungsverbände''):
#Bad Friedrichshall
#Bad Rappenau
#Brackenheim
#Eppingen
#Flein-Talheim
#Lauffen
#Möckmühl
#Neckarsulm
#Neuenstadt
#Oberes Zabergäu
#Obersulm
#Schozach-Bottwartal
#Schwaigern
#Raum Weinsberg
References
External links
Official website(German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heilbronn (District)
Stuttgart (region)
Districts of Baden-Württemberg