Reichenbach am Heuberg Reichenbach is a municipality in the district of

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Geography

Reichenbach lies on the Heuberg Plateau, a high plateau in the south of the Swabian Jura. The Lower Bära river flows through the town. Additionally a small tributary, called the Reichenbach or Talbach, runs through the town and empties into the Bära.

Neighboring communities

Reichenbach is bounded on the north by

Obernheim Obernheim is a municipality of the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History Obernheim became a possession of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1805 and was assigned to . Five years later, in 1810, it was reassigned to , whic ...

, on the east by

Nusplingen Nusplingen is a municipality of the Zollernalbkreis, Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History In 1803, Nusplingen became a possession of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who traded the town in 1813 to the Kingdom ...

, both in the

Zollernalbkreis The Zollernalbkreis is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The district is located in the Swabian Alb, and contains the second highest elevation of this range, the high '' Oberhohenberg''. In the south-east ...

. On the southeast it borders on Egesheim, in the southwest on

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, and on the northwest on Wehingen.

Community structure

The community of Reichenbach consists of the village of Reichenbach am Heuberg and the hamlet of Holzwiesen.''Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden. Band VI: Regierungsbezirk Freiburg''

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, Stuttgart 1982, , S. 635.

History

Reichenbach first appears in written records in the year 793. The village belonged to the County of Hohenberg. In the year 1391 it became part of

Further Austria Further Austria, Outer Austria or Anterior Austria (german: Vorderösterreich, formerly ''die Vorlande'' (pl.)) was the collective name for the early (and later) possessions of the House of Habsburg in the former Swabian stem duchy of south-wes ...

, where it remained until it became part of Württemberg. Between 1928 and 1966 Reichenbach was a terminus of the Heuberg Railroad. At one time a farming village it has now become an industrial and residential community.

Culture and tourism

Reichenbach is affiliated with the tourist association "Donaubergland". The

rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is home to a little known organ of the master organ builder Hieronymus Spiegel.

References

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