Steinsfurt is a village in southwestern

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, in the Rhine Neckar Area of the Bundesland

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between

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and Heilbronn in the district Rhein-Neckar. It is one of the 13 ''

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, of which it is part since 1973. It has a total population is 3,269 (as of December 2017).

Tourist attractions

Steinsfurts's main tourist attraction is the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, featuring many of historic vehicles. It attracts over 1 million visitors per year. In 1989, a

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area was established that features all kinds of industrial and popular events. Steinsfurt has restored its charming nineteenth-century synagogue.Infos at alemannia-judaica.de
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Stadium

On September 19, 2006, the mayor of Sinsheim announced that the

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would be built in the suburb of Steinsfurt, not far from the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, for other suburb,

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's football club

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. The

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40 million stadium, built by

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, a cofounder and major share holder of software giant

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and chief investor in 1899 Hoffenheim, built the stadium which seats 30,000.

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Stadium

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