Königsbach-Stein

Königsbach-Stein is a municipality in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

Until German mediatization, the town of Stein was ruled by both the Margraviate of Baden and the Barony of Saint-André. After meditization, it was assigned to the Amt of Königsbach on 24 July 1813. On 25 May 1821, Stein was assigned to Bezirksamt Bretten and Königsbach to Bezirksamt Durlach. Stein was reassigned again to the district of Pforzheim in 1920 and was joined on 1 April 1924 by Königsbach. The two towns remained with Pforzheim until, with the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform, they were assigned to the new Enz district. Stein and Königsbach merged to form Königsbach-Stein on 1 July 1974. On 20 June 1989, 39 hectares of the Steiner Mittelberg, a local mountain, became the Beim Steiner Mittelberg Federally-protected nature reserve .

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