Neuenstein () is a town in the Hohenlohe district, in

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. It is situated 12 km southwest of

Künzelsau Künzelsau (; East Franconian: ''Kinzelse'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, in south central Germany. It is the capital of the Hohenlohe district. It is located on the river Kocher, 19 km (12 mi) north of Schwäbisch Hall, and 37 ...

, and 27 km east of

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the begi ...

. The 16th-century castle, home to H.S.H. the prince of

Hohenlohe The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It formerly ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire, which was divided between several branches. In 1806, the area of Hohenlohe was 1,760 km² and its estimated pop ...

-Oehringen, is open to visitors.

Villages

Neuenstein consists of the following 7 villages: Neuenstein Schloss01 crop1edit2 2007-09-22

Mayor

From 1999 to 2015 Sabine Eckert-Viereckel was the mayor. In February 2015 Karl Michael Nicklas was elected with 85% of the votes.

Sons and daughters of the town

Wendel Hipler Wendel Hipler was born in Neuenstein in about 1465. As a nobleman, Hipler, nonetheless, sided with the insurgents during the peasant uprising in Franconia Franconia ( ; ; ) is a geographical region of Germany, characterised by its culture a ...

(around 1465–1526), leader of the peasants in the

German Peasants' War The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt () was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It was Europe's largest and most widespread popular uprising befor ...

Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (3 August 1622, Neuenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Neuenstein – 26 December 1698) was a German Field Marshal and the last Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was the son of Kraft II ...

(1622–1698), (Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and imperial

Generalfeldmarschall ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (; from Old High German ''marahscalc'', "marshal, stable master, groom"; ; often abbreviated to ''Feldmarschall'') was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire, (''Reichsgeneralfeldmarsch ...

in the Turkish War

References

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