Neuhausen is a town in the district of Enz

Enz (district)

Enzkreis is a district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Karlsruhe, Heilbronn,Ludwigsburg, Böblingen and Calw...

 in Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

 in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Geography

Neuhausen is on the plateau between Nagold

Nagold

Nagold is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the northern Black Forest. It is located in the Landkreis of Calw . Nagold is known for its ruined castle, Hohennagold Castle, and for its road viaduct...

 and Würm

Würm

The Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, right tributary of the Amper. It drains the overflow from Lake Starnberg and flows swiftly through the villages of Gauting, Krailling, Planegg, Gräfelfing and Lochham as well as part of Munich before joining, near Dachau, the Amper, which soon afterwards...

, also named Biet (from German Gebiet (area) between 430 and 570 metres sea level.

Geology

The municipality is mainly built on red sandstone. A part is built on lower and middle muschelkalk.

Municipal area expansion

Neuhausen and its parts extend on an area of 2976 ha, thereof are 1647, so 55 %, forest.

Neighbour municipalities

Neighbour municipalities are: Bad Liebenzell

Bad Liebenzell

Bad Liebenzell is a spa town in the Nagold River valley, the northern part of the Black Forest. It was first mentioned in 1090 and is the heart of the Liebenzeller Mission ....

, Pforzheim

Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Until 1565 it was the home to the Margraves of Baden. Because of that it gained the nickname...

, Tiefenbronn

Tiefenbronn

Tiefenbronn is a town in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....

, Unterreichenbach

Unterreichenbach

Unterreichenbach is a town in the district of Calw in the northern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.-Geography:Unterreichenbach is in the Nagold River Valley between Calw and Pforzheim, at an altitude of between 292 und 633 metres....

 and Weil der Stadt

Weil der Stadt

Weil der Stadt is a small town of about 19,000 inhabitants, located in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is about west of Stuttgart city center, and is often called "Gate to the Black Forest"...

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Local subdivitions

The municipalitiy of Neuhausen consists of the former municipalities Hamburg, Neuhausen, Schellbronn and Steinegg. These municipalities consisted only of the just called villages. To the former municipality belong the village Neuhausen as well as the villages "Monbachtal, Jugenderholungsheim" (youth convalescent), partially to Bad Liebenzell

Bad Liebenzell

Bad Liebenzell is a spa town in the Nagold River valley, the northern part of the Black Forest. It was first mentioned in 1090 and is the heart of the Liebenzeller Mission ....

 in the district Calw

Calw (district)

Calw is a district in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Karlsruhe, Enz, the district-free city Pforzheim, Böblingen, Freudenstadt and Rastatt.- History :...

, "Monbachtal, Kurhotel" also partially to Bad Liebenzell, Bahnstation Neuhausen and St Wendel (former army barracks). In the area of the former municipality Hamburg is the department Jagschloss Taulbronnen, what was mentioned in 1568 first.

Climate

In most descriptions of villages of the Biet exists the phrase it is a landscape with harsh climate. The height plot is a case too where the location of the village is important. Who lives on a increase will live in a harsher climate as whose village is in a hollow.

History

The so-called Biet-villages to them belong Neuhausen and its districts too were probably created as forest homestead villages. The first documentary evidence followed later: 1073 Schellbronn, 1150 Neuhausen and 1157 Steinegg. Hamburg was mentioned documentary in 1453 the first time, but it is probably Hamburg to have been created in the 11. century on initiative of a Stein von Rechtenstein. They subjected the Freiherren von Gemmingen (barons of Gemmingen).

War, plague and other disasters

The municipality was not spared by plague, war and other disasters like the other municipalities in Baden

Baden

Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....

. Towards the end of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 the villages were attacked by RAF several times. Several people died, both civilians and soldiers.

Religions

Because the Freiherren von Gemmingen lived Roman Catholic after the Reformation

Reformation

- Movements :* Protestant Reformation, an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in a schism, and grew into a wider movement...

, built the Biet to what belongs Neuhausen a Catholic enclave in Protestant area.

Spatial development of the municipality area

On 1st of March 1973 the municipalities Hamburg, Neuhausen and Steinegg were united as the municipality Neuhausen. On 1st of January 1975 the today's community Neuhausen was built new through the union with municipalitiy Schellbronn.