Wüstenrot is a municipality in the
Mainhardt Forest with about 6,800 inhabitants, more than half of them in small incorporated villages. The village is the birthplace of the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse (Wüstenrot Building Society).
Geography
Location
Wüstenrot is in the forest in the southeast of the
district of Heilbronn in the
natural region
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From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and ...
of the
Swabian-Franconian Forest. The River Rot runs through central Wüstenrot. Wüstenrot consists of the five
town
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
s (and former municipalities) Wüstenrot, Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and the abandoned village of Neuhütte in Joachimstal.
Neighbours
Neighboring cities and municipalities of Wüstenrot are (moving
clockwise
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, starting in the west) the towns of
Beilstein and
Löwenstein (both in Heilbronn),
Bretzfeld (
Hohenlohe
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),
Mainhardt (
Schwäbisch Hall),
Großerlach and
Spiegelberg (within
Rems-Murr-Kreis) and
Oberstenfeld (Prevorst district,
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a Cities of Germany, city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg (district), Lu ...
).
The community of Wüstenrot (as of 2006) has 4,971 inhabitants, 2,952 of which in the Wüstenrot proper.
Mayors
*1974–1990: Ernst Schlagenhauf
*1990–2006: Roland Awe
*2006–2014: Heinz Nägele
*since 2014: Timo Wolf
References
Heilbronn (district)
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