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Neustadt an der Donau is a town in
Lower Bavaria
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Geography
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on the
Danube
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in
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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. Lying on the western border of
Landkreis Kelheim
Kelheim is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany, bound (from the north and clockwise) by the regions Regensburg, Landshut, Freising, Pfaffenhofen, Eichstätt and Neumarkt.
Geography
The district is located halfway between Ingolst ...
, Neustadt is primarily known for the
thermal spa
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Bad Gögging. Neustadt had a population of 12,753 as of December 31, 2003.
Geography
The city is located halfway between
Ingolstadt
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and
Regensburg
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, on an approximately wide gravel plain of the
Danube
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valley
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, which at this point is south of the wooded foothills of the
tertiary
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Donau-Isar hill country of the
Hallertau
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and bounded on the north by the
limestone
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slope of the southern
Franconian Alb. The rivers
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and
Abens
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flow into the Danube in the city.
The township includes 22 districts
Arresting, Bad Gögging, Deisenhofen, Eining, Geibenstetten, Haderfleck, Heiligenstadt,
Hienheim
Hienheim is a district of the town of Neustadt an der Donau in the district of Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany.
Location
Hienheim is located at an altitude of above sea level on the left bank of the Danube opposite the village of Eining, on the road ...
, Irnsing, Irnsing-Steinbruch, Karpfenstein, Lina, Marching, Mauern, Mulhouse, Niederulrain, Oberulrain, Schwaig, Sittling, Umbertshausen and Wöhr .
The area heavily dominated by agriculture; asparagus and in particular
hops
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play a special role.
Neighboring communities of Neustadt are
Abensberg,
Altmannstein
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,
Biburg
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,
Kelheim
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History
Kelheim is t ...
, Mindelstetten, Münchsmünster, Pförring and
Siegenburg
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.
History
The oldest documented area of Neustadt was the village of Trephenau.
Under the name ''Seligenstadt '' the town charter was granted in May 1273 by Duke
Ludwig II
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. This town charter is the oldest in
Bavaria
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. With the town survey and the consequent new investment and resettlement Duke Ludwig II secured the Danube Valley road and the river crossing. The town charter is one of many granted by early
Wittelsbach
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dukes as part of a planned foundation of towns. Neustadt was first mentioned by that name in a document of
Abbot
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Conrad of Weltenburg
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from 1277.
The settlement of
Wöhr, just outside the city gate on the bank of the Danube, is actually older than Neustadt. The name derives from the Middle High German ''Wert'', signifying an island of elevated dry land. Wöhr was incorporated in the late Middle Ages as part of the city of Neustadt and residents of Wöhr could be citizens of the city, but lived outside the fortification. Wöhr was also the seat of the noble family of the Lords of Wöhr and the ducal Urbar Office "ze Werde" that managed the natural and monetary levies from the ducal estates.
Population
Personalities
*
Eberhard of Salzburg
Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
Eberhard was born to a noble family of Nuremberg, Germany; he became a Benedictine in 1125 at Pruffening, Germany. Later he was made Abbot of Biburg near Regensburg. In 1146 Pope Innocent II ap ...
(* around 1085 in Sittling-1164 in the Cistercian monastery Rein), Archbishop of Salzburg from 1147 to 1164, was venerated as a holy
*
Wilhelm Sander (died 1973 in Neustadt an der Donau), manufacturer and donor
*
Jürgen Wittmann (born 1966 in Neustadt an der Donau), German football goalkeeper
References
External links
Municipal websiteOfficial website of Bad Gögging
Populated places on the Danube
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