Neulingen is a municipality in the
Enz district in
Baden-Württemberg in
Germany. It was created on 1 January 1974 from the three independent villages of Bauschlott, Göbrichen, and Nußbaum. It is located on
Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
History
Bauschlott and Göbrichen were long-time possessions of the
Margraviate and later
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...
, 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
Pforzheim, 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
Gemeinde (; plural: Gemeinden) is a German word translating to "community", "town", "parish", or "municipality".
Gemeinde may refer to:
* An administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city:
** Gemeinde (Austria)
** Gemeinde (G ...
'') of Neulingen covers of the
Enz district of
Baden-Württemberg, a
state 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
loess
Loess (, ; from german: Löss ) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. Ten percent of Earth's land area is covered by loess or similar deposits.
Loess is a periglacial or aeolian ...
-coated, forested and
karstified hills of
muschelkalk. Elevation above sea level within the municipal area varies from a low of
Normalnull (NN) to a high of NN.
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Nature reserves
The Bauschlotter Schlosspark, , and Federally-protected nature reserves are located within Neulingen's municipal area.[
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Coat of arms
Neulingen's municipal coat of arms displays a field of red crossed by a diagonal gold bar
Bar or BAR may refer to:
Food and drink
* Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
* Candy bar
* Chocolate bar
Science and technology
* Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
* Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
* Bar (u ...
, a reference to the House of Zähringen
The House of Zähringen (german: Zähringer) was a dynasty of Swabian nobility. The family's name derived from Zähringen Castle near Freiburg im Breisgau. The Zähringer in the 12th century used the title of Duke of Zähringen, in compensation ...
, who ruled the Margraviate and later Grand Duchy of Baden, though the tincture is inverted. The items on this pattern are references to the three towns that merged to form Neulingen. The two black 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.[
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References
External links
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