Nusplingen is a municipality of the Zollernalb district of

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History

In 1803, Nusplingen became a possession of the Principality of

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen () was a principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to the junior House of Hohenzollern#Swabian branch, Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. The Swabian Hohenzollerns were elevated to princes in 162 ...

, who traded the town in 1813 to the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg ( ) was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Electorate of Württemberg, which existed from 1803 to 1806. Geogr ...

for

Beuron Abbey Beuron Archabbey (in German Erzabtei Beuron, otherwise Erzabtei St. Martin; in Latin ''Archiabbatia Sancti Martini Beuronensis''; Swabian: ''Erzabtei Beira'') is a major house of the Benedictine Order located at Beuron in the upper Danube valley ...

. Nusplingen was assigned to and remained in that district until its dissolution in 1938. Following that dissolution, Nusplingen was reassigned to the . This district was itself dissolved in 1973, when , and Nusplingen was assigned to the newly created Zollernalb district. After

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, the town grew and industrialized beginning in the 1950s with development at its northern extremity.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Nusplingen is located at the southern edge of the Zollernalb district of

, a

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of the

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. It lies along the border with

Tuttlingen district Tuttlingen is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rottweil, Zollernalbkreis, Sigmaringen, Constance and Schwarzwald-Baar. History The district dates back to the ...

to the south and

Sigmaringen Sigmaringen ( Swabian: ''Semmerenga'') is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen district. Sigmaringen is renowned for its castle, Schloss Sigmaringen, ...

to the east. Nusplingen is physically located in the middle of the , part of the larger regions of the and the

Upper Danube Nature Park The Upper Danube Nature Park (German: ''Naturpark Obere Donau''), founded in 1980, is located in the south of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and encloses primarily the districts of Tuttlingen and Sigmaringen. It encompassed initially 860 k ...

. Its primary watercourse is the

Bära The Bära is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Bära is a tributary of the Danube, and originates at the confluence of the Obere Bära (''Upper Bära'') and the Untere Bära (''Lower Bära''). The Bära, together with the Lower Bä ...

river, which flows through the municipality from north to south and whose valley dominates its landscape. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a low of

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(NN) along the Bära to a high of NN at the top of the Staufenberg. The hill ''Westenberg'' is the location where

Nusplingen Limestone The Nusplingen Limestone (German: Nusplingen Plattenkalk) is a Formation (geology), geological formation in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It preserves fossils dating to the Kimmeridgian age of the Late Jurassic.fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...

s from the

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third Epoch (geology), epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time scale, geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 143.1 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic stratum, strata.Owen ...

were discovered here. Part of the Federally-protected and

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are located in the municipality.

Demographics

Population development:

Coat of arms

Nusplingen's

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shows an eagle's leg, with claws bared, in

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upon a

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. This pattern was taken from that of an extinct local noble family and was approved for official use by the provisional post-WWII

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government on 16 May 1950. Previous municipal emblems include a town

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from 1515 and a pattern of

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-yellow wavy bars devised in 1930. A municipal flag corresponding to the coat of arms was issued by the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry of the Interior on 30 August 1967.

Transportation

Local public transportation is provided by the . Nusplingen was selected to be the endpoint for the

Heuberg Railway The Heuberg Railway (''Heubergbahn'') was a standard gauge railway line in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The line operated between 1928 and 1966, and ran from Spaichingen, past five railway stations and a stop to Reichenbac ...

, but in 1928 Reichenbach was chosen over Nusplingen.

Citations

External links

* {{Cities and towns in Zollernalb district Zollernalbkreis