Neuenbürg

Sister cities

• Sainte-Maxime

History

Neuenbürg originated as a village around a castle built by the in the 12th century. Between 1315 and 1322, Neuenbürg became a possession of the Counts of Württemberg, who gave it town rights. With the villages of Arnbach, Dennach, and , Neuenbürg was assigned its own district. On 18 March 1806, that district was reorganized as . The Oberamt was dissolved on 1 October 1938 and its constituents were assigned to the Calw district. When the Enz district was created by the on 1 January 1973, Neuenbürg and its villages were assigned to it. Arnbach, Dennach, and Waldrennach were fully incorporated into Neuenbürg on 1 January 1975.

Geography

The township (Stadt) of Neuenbürg covers of the Enz district, within the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Republic of Germany. It is physically located on the , on the southern reaches of the Kraichgau. The geological makeup of the municipal area is decided by the meeting of the Pfinzhügelland's muschelkalk and keuper and the Black Forest's buntsandstein plateaus. The main watercourse is the Enz, which flows in a deep bed of . Where the Enz flows into Birkenfeld marks the lowest elevation above sea level in the municipal area, Normalnull (NN). The highest is the top of the Heuberg, south of Dennach, at NN. A portion of the Federally-protected nature reserve is found within Neuenbürg's municipal area.

Most-observed species

• Zoropsid spider

  Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820) · Arachnida
  1,956
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,811
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,803
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,534
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,518
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,374
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,358
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,350

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 4.1 — 2021-06-26
  2 km SE of Hœrdt, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-12-12
  2 km ESE of Nehren, Germany
• M 2.8 — 2008-11-25
  1 km S of Steinmauern, Germany
• M 2.7 — 2008-07-09
  1 km WSW of Dußlingen, Germany