Wüstenrot

Geschichte

Wüstenrot is a municipality in the Mainhardt Forest with about 6,800 inhabitants, more than half of them in small incorporated villages. The village is the birthplace of the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse (Wüstenrot Building Society).GeographyLocationWüstenrot is in the forest in the southeast of the district of Heilbronn in the natural region of the Swabian-Franconian Forest. The River Rot runs through central Wüstenrot. Wüstenrot consists of the five towns (and former municipalities) Wüstenrot, Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and the abandoned village of Neuhütte in Joachimstal.NeighboursNeighboring cities and municipalities of Wüstenrot are the towns of Beilstein and Löwenstein, Bretzfeld, Mainhardt, Großerlach and Spiegelberg and Oberstenfeld .The community of Wüstenrot has 4,971 inhabitants, 2,952 of which in the Wüstenrot proper.