Neulingen is a municipality in the Enz district in

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. It was created on 1 January 1974 from the three independent villages of Bauschlott, Göbrichen, and Nußbaum. It is located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

History

Bauschlott and Göbrichen were long-time possessions of the Margraviate and later

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, but Nußbaum belonged to first Herrenalb Abbey and then the Kingdom of Württemberg until being ceded to Baden by treaty on 17 October 1806. Upon annexation, Nußbaum joined the other two towns in the district of Stein. The three were reassigned on 25 May 1821 to the district of

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, which became on 25 June 1939. On 1 January 1973, as part of the , the Enz district was created and Bauschlott, Nußbaum, and Göbrichen were assigned to it. The next year, the three towns merged to form the municipality of Neulingen. The latter town changed its name to Neulingen, after a nearby village named neither Nidlingen or Neidlingen that had ceased to exist in the 14th century.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Neulingen covers of the Enz district of

, a

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of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located entirely within the Kraichgau, specifically on the , and so its geography is made up by the region's characteristic

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-coated, forested and karstified hills of

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. Elevation above sea level within the municipal area varies from a low of

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(NN) to a high of NN.

Nature reserves

The Bauschlotter Schlosspark, , and Federally-protected nature reserves are located within Neulingen's municipal area.

Demographics

Population development:

Coat of arms

Neulingen's municipal coat of arms displays a field of red crossed by a diagonal

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bar, a reference to the

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, who ruled the Margraviate and later Grand Duchy of Baden, though the

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is inverted. The items on this pattern are references to the three towns that merged to form Neulingen. The two

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diamonds inside the bar are from Nußbaum, while the golden 'G' above it and the sester below it are from Göbrichen and Bauschlott respectively. The municipal coat of arms was approved by the Enz district office on 15 June 1984.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Enzkreis