Obernau (Rottenburg)
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Obernau is a suburban district of Rottenburg am Neckar
Rottenburg am Neckar
Rottenburg am Neckar is a medium-sized town in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It rests about 50 km southwest of the provincial capital Stuttgart and about 12 km southwest of the district town Tübingen...

 in the administrative district of Tübingen
Tübingen (district)
Tübingen is a district in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Böblingen, Reutlingen, Zollernalbkreis and Freudenstadt.-History:...

 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...

 (Germany
Germany
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).

Geography

Obernau is located 6 km (4.35 mi) western from Rottenburg am Neckar
Rottenburg am Neckar
Rottenburg am Neckar is a medium-sized town in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It rests about 50 km southwest of the provincial capital Stuttgart and about 12 km southwest of the district town Tübingen...

 in the Neckar valley. The elevation of the territory is 351 to 498 m.

Extent

The area of the district is 378 hectare
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...

s. Thereof fall 54.2 % upon agriculturally used area, 34.7 % upon forest area, 7.9 % upon settlement area and roads, 1.9 % upon water expanse and 1.3 % upon other.

Neighbour localities

The territories of the following villages adjoin to Obernau, they are called clockwise beginning in the north: Nellingsheim, Bad Niedernau
Bad Niedernau
Bad Niedernau is a suburban district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg .- Geography :...

, Schwalldorf
Schwalldorf
Schwalldorf is a suburban district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg .- Geography :...

 and Bieringen
Bieringen (Rottenburg)
Bieringen is a suburban district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg .- Geography :Bieringen is located 9 km southwestern from Rottenburg am Neckar in the Neckar valley....

. (All villages are in the admin. district of Tübingen
Tübingen (district)
Tübingen is a district in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Böblingen, Reutlingen, Zollernalbkreis and Freudenstadt.-History:...

).

Population

Obernau has a population of 503 people (31/01/08) and is therefore the second smallest district of Rottenburg. At an area of 3.78 km² (2.2 sq mi) this corresponds to a population density of 133 people per km², or 345 per sq mi.

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