Königsbach-Stein is a municipality in the district of

Enz The Enz is a river flowing north from the Black Forest to the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. It is 106 km long. Its headstreams – the Little Enz (german: Kleine Enz) and the Great Enz or Big Enz (''Große Enz'') – rise in the Northern B ...

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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. It is located on

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History

Until German mediatization, the town of Stein was ruled by both the

Margraviate of Baden The Margraviate of Baden (german: Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the east side of the Upper Rhine River in southwestern Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, ...

and the . After meditization, it was assigned to the '' Amt'' of Königsbach on 24 July 1813. On 25 May 1821, Stein was assigned to and Königsbach to . Stein was reassigned again to the district of

Pforzheim Pforzheim () is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany. It is known for its jewelry and watch-making industry, and as such has gained the nickname "Goldstadt" ("Golden City") ...

in 1920 and was joined on 1 April 1924 by Königsbach. The two towns remained with Pforzheim until, with the , they were assigned to the new Enz district. Stein and Königsbach merged to form Königsbach-Stein on 1 July 1974. On 20 June 1989, of the Steiner Mittelberg, a local mountain, became the Federally-protected nature reserve (''

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''). Karl-Möller-Straße in Königsbach-Stein is named after author

Karl Leopold von Möller Count, Karl von Möller AOL O (11 October 1876 – 21 February 1943) was an officer, journalist, author and politician from Banat. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler's National Socialism. In 1932, he published the antisemitic newspape ...

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Königsbach-Stein covers an area of of the Enz district, within the

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and the

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. Physically, it is located at the southern end of

Kraichgau The Kraichgau () is a hilly region in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Odenwald and the Neckar to the North, the Black Forest to the South, and the Upper Rhine Plain to the West. To the east, its boundary is c ...

, a hilly region formed by layers of and of the . The primary watercourse within the municipal area is the Kämpfelbach. The lowest elevation in the municipality,

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN), is found where the Kämpfelbach flows into

Remchingen Remchingen () is a municipality in the Enz district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, situated on the river Pfinz, 14 km southeast of Karlsruhe, and 12 km northwest of Pforzheim. History Older history * 1st millennium BC: Celtic ...

. The highest elevation, NN, is found at the Langenwald campsite.

Coat of arms

Königsbach-Stein's municipal

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were awarded by government of the Enz district on 16 November 1992. It is divided into four sections by quartering. In the top left quarter is a bend in

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on a

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field, followed by a bust of a king upon a

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field in the top right. The bottom left quarter, a pair of silver

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measures a stone on a

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field, and the final quarter is made up by a blue wavy bar on a silver

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Citations

External links

Official website
(in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Konigsbachstein Enzkreis Baden