Neuenburg am Rhein
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Neuenburg am Rhein | |
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Location of Neuenburg am Rhein within Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district  | |
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| Coordinates: 47°48′53″N 7°33′43″E / 47.81472°N 7.56194°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald |
| Subdivisions | 4 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Joachim Schuster (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 44.12 km2 (17.03 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 230 m (750 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 12,482 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (730/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 79389–79395 |
| Dialling codes | 07631 |
| Vehicle registration | FR |
| Website | www.neuenburg.de |
Imperial City of Neuenburg Reichsstadt Neuenburg | |||||||||
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| 1219–1311 | |||||||||
| Status | Free Imperial City | ||||||||
| Capital | Neuenburg am Rhein | ||||||||
| Government | Free Imperial City | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded by Duke Berchtold IV | 1175 | ||||||||
• Granted Reichsfreiheit by Emp. Frederick II | 1219 (confirmed 1274) | ||||||||
• Adolphine privileges | 24 December 1292 | ||||||||
• Destroyed by flooding | 1302 | ||||||||
• To Further Austria | 1311 | ||||||||
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Neuenburg am Rhein is a town in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Geography
Geographical location
It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, halfway between Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel, and 18 km northeast of Mulhouse.
Neighbor villages
Neighbor villages north of Neuenburg are Hartheim am Rhein and Eschbach, north-east are Heitersheim and Buggingen, east of Neuenburg are Müllheim and Auggen, and in the south are Schliengen and Bad Bellingen. West of the Rhine, across the boarder to France, the small municipality Chalampé is located.
Town structure
Besides the core town district Neuenburg, there are three districts, called Steinenstadt, Zienken and Grißheim.[2] The population of the core part of the town is 8658, with 1488, 1457 and 941 people living in Steinenstadt, Grißheim, and Zienken, respectively.[3]
History
Neuenburg am Rhein was founded in 1175 by Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen, in the shape of a cross at the intersection of two roads. The immediate cause of the foundation was the expansion by the Hohenstaufen family from their possessions in Badenweiler toward their possessions in the Alsace. By founding Neuenburg the Zähringen family could control the crossing of the Rhine river and exact a toll. The Zähringens, however, died out in 1218.
The Benedictine Gutnau Monastery, according to a note in abbot Caspar Molitoris's Liber Originum, was founded by Guta, a non from Sitzenkirch Monastery in Lörrach. The monastery's original building was probably right on the Rhine bank, but was later rebuilt closer to Auggen.
In 1219, the town was declared a free imperial city by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; this was confirmed in 1274. The town flourished in the Middle Ages and achieved political importance because of its location on the Rhine. Between 1272/73 and 1283, Johannes Brunwart was Schultheiß of Neuenburg; five of his (conventional) Minnesang poems are collected in the early-14th c. Codex Manesse.
Politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Neuenburg currently has 24 seats, with 10 seats belonging to the Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, 9 seats belonging to the Freie Wählervereinigung Neuenburg e. V., and 5 seats belonging to the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. The major is the chairman of the municipal council and is allowed to vote.
Mayor
Since 1991, and after reelections in 1999, 2007 and 2015, Joachim Schuster (CDU) (born 1956) is the major of Neuenburg am Rhein.
However, the election of 2015 was declared invalid by the administrative court of Freiburg because of a newspaper article that seemed too biased. The election was repeated in March 2016, and Schuster was reelected with more than 72 percent of the votes.[4]
Coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms says "In red a golden slanting bar".
Sons and daughters of the town
- Matthias of Neuenburg (1295-1364), chronicler and bishop of Strasbourg
- Uli Edel (b. 1947), film director
- Mike Jenkins (b. 1985), American football player
- Andreas Bornemann (b. 1971), former German soccer player and now chairman of the 1. FC Nurnberg
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden. Band IV: Regierungsbezirk Freiburg Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-007174-2. S. 150–153
- ^ Informationsbroschüre "Neuenburg am Rhein" A+K Verlag, Freiburg 6. Ausgabe Oktober 2010 S. 21 kostenlose Broschüre der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein
- ^ Eilmeldung: Gericht erklärt Bürgermeisterwahl in Neuenburg für ungültig (Badische Zeitung, 10. November 2015)
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