Waldenburg

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Waldenburg (German pronunciation: [ˈvaldn̩bʊʁk] ) is a hilltop town in south central Germany, eastwards of Heilbronn in the Hohenlohe (district) of Baden-Württemberg. The town is the site of Waldenburg Castle and some hilltop churches. Records first mention Waldenburg in the year 1253, but the town was destroyed in April 1945, at the end of World War II, and it has been rebuilt since. Waldenburg covers part of the natural Schwäbisch-Fränkische forest-hills and the Hohenloher-Haller Ebene. Waldenburg includes the village of Waldenburg proper and the 2 sections Obersteinbach (173 people, as of 31 March 2006) and Sailach (222 people). The first recorded mention of Waldenburg dates from 1253. By 1330 it was a free imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire. Plague and war reduced the population during the Thirty Years' War. The Confederation of the Rhine of 1806 annexed Waldenburg into the Kingdom of Württemberg under the process of "mediatisation", and the town has been part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, within the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1952. In April 1945, at the end of World War II, the town was occupied for a last-ditch stand by the Wehrmacht against the advancing Third United States Army, and was almost completely destroyed by American artillery.