Hirschau is a village in Tübingen district in

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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. Since 1971, it is an outer district of the city of

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

. Hirschau has a population of 3297 (2020) on an area of 6.17 km². It is the westernmost district of Tübingen. Hirschau lies to the north of 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 ...

river, about 3 km to the east of

Wurmlingen Wurmlingen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen (district), Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. References External links

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, which is a part of

Rottenburg am Neckar Rottenburg am Neckar (; until 10 July 1964 only ''Rottenburg''; Swabian: ''Raodaburg'') is a medium-sized town in the administrative district (''Landkreis'') of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies about 50 kilometres (31 miles) s ...

, and about 6 km to the east of the town centre of Rottenburg am Neckar as well as to the west of the city centre of Tübingen. The highest point is the Spitzberg at 475 m

above mean sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

. Unlike most of Tübingen, Hirschau is, like neighbouring Rottenburg, mostly

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirschau (Tubingen) Villages in Baden-Württemberg Boroughs of Tübingen