Wüstenrot

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Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Wüstenrot within Heilbronn district

(2022–30) Timo Wolf^[1]Area

• Total30.02 km² (11.59 sq mi)Elevation

489 m (1,604 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total6,813 • Density230/km² (590/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

71543

Dialling codes07945Vehicle registrationHNWebsitewww.wuestenrot4u.de

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).

Geography

Location

Wüstenrot 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.

Neighbours

Neighboring cities and municipalities of Wüstenrot are (moving clockwise, starting in the west) the towns of Beilstein and Löwenstein (both in Heilbronn), Bretzfeld (Hohenlohe), Mainhardt (Schwäbisch Hall), Großerlach and Spiegelberg (within Rems-Murr-Kreis) and Oberstenfeld (Prevorst district, Ludwigsburg).

The community of Wüstenrot (as of 2006) has 4,971 inhabitants, 2,952 of which in the Wüstenrot proper.

Mayors

1974–1990: Ernst Schlagenhauf
1990–2006: Roland Awe
2006–2014: Heinz Nägele
since 2014: Timo Wolf

References

^ Bürgermeisterwahl Wüstenrot 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
^ "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.