Neulingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

🇩🇪 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 the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

History Bauschlott and Göbrichen were long-time possessions of the Margraviate and later Grand Duchy of Baden, 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 Landkreis Pforzheim  on 25 June 1939. On 1 January 1973, as part of the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform, 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 23.19 square km (8.95 sq mi) 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 Bauschlotter Plateau, and so its geography is made up by the region's characteristic loess-coated, forested and karstified hills of muschelkalk. Elevation above sea level within the municipal area varies from a low of 232 meters (761 ft) Normalnull (NN) to a high of 365 meters (1,198 ft) NN.

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