Neustadt am Kulm is a municipality in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

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. It is situated 29 km northwest of

Weiden in der Oberpfalz Weiden in der Oberpfalz (official name: Weiden i.d.OPf.; Northern Bavarian: ''Weidn in da Owapfalz'') is a district-free city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located east of Nuremberg and west of the Czech border. A branch of the German Army is locat ...

, and 23 km southeast of

Bayreuth Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...

. Neustadt am Kulm is situated directly west of the

Rauher Kulm The Rauher Kulm is a small basalt mountain located in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) region of the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is located 23 kilometers southeast of Bayreuth and 5 kilometers south of Kemnath. The town of Neustadt am Kulm ...

Mayors

Since 2008 Wolfgang Haberberger is the mayor of Neustadt am Kulm. He was re-elected in 2014 and 2020. His predecessor was Rudolf Lang (CSU).

Natural monuments

The most important sight is the 682-metre-high

with its 25-metre-high viewing tower. Since 1949 it has been protected as a natural monument. On the mountain is the rock formation of Kleiner Kulm and, east of the Rauher Kulm is the Kühhübel, whose basalt ''

kuppe A ''Kuppe'' is the term used in German-speaking central Europe for a mountain or hill with a rounded summit that has no rock formation, such as a tor, on it. A range of such hills is called a ''Kuppengebirge''. In geology the term also refers to ...

'' has been almost entirely quarried away. The medieval

hilltop castle A hilltop castle is a type of hill castle that was built on the summit of a hill or mountain. In the latter case it may be termed a mountaintop castle. The term is derived from the German, ''Gipfelburg'', which is one of a number of terms used ...

s on the two Kulms were destroyed in 1554. Only fragmentary remains have survived: the ''

burgstall A ''burgstall'' is a German term referring to a castle of which so little is left that its appearance cannot effectively be reconstructed.

s'' of Rauhenkulm Castle and Schlechtenkulm Castle. The Rauher Kulm was selected in a survey by the ''Heinz Sielmann Stiftung EUROPARC Deutschland'' as Germany's most beautiful natural wonder for 2013. Twenty-one natural monuments were chosen from the national natural landscapes and other regions of Germany. Second place went to the

Steinerne Rose The Steinerne Rose is a rare natural monument. It is a diabase rock formation, that originated on the sea bed from outflowing lava in the middle Devonian, i.e. about 400 million years ago. The lava formed pillow-like bodies which have an interna ...

near

Saalburg-Ebersdorf Saalburg-Ebersdorf is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany close to the Bavarian border. It is situated on the river Saale, 10 km southwest of Schleiz, 30 km west of Plauen and 30 km north-west of Hof. Th ...

. In third place was the Stiefel rock formation near

St. Ingbert St. Ingbert (also ''Sankt Ingbert''; pfl, Dingmert or ''Dimbert'') is a town in the Saarpfalz district in Saarland, Germany with a population of 35,213 (2020). It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Saarbrücken and 10 km so ...

.Heinz Sielmann Stiftung: Naturwunder des Jahres 2013
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Personalities

* Georg Jacob Schaeffler (1865-1962), grandfather of

Georg Schaeffler Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Schaeffler (born 19 October 1964) is a German billionaire businessman and owner of 80% of the holding company INA Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG, which includes Schaeffler AG. His mother, Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, o ...

, (born 1964) businessman of the

Schaeffler Group Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, also known as Schaeffler Group (''Schaeffler-Gruppe'' in German), is a German manufacturer of rolling element bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. It was founded in 1946 by brothers Dr. ...

References

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