Enzkreis

The Enzkreis is a district (Kreis) in the north-west of Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Karlsruhe, Heilbronn,

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Ludwigsburg, B?blingen and Calw. The district-free Pforzheim in the south is nearly completely surrounded by the district.

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The district was created in 1973, when the previous district Pforzheim was merged with parts of the neighboring districts Vaihingen, Leonberg and Calw. Some part of the district Pforzheim was included into the city Pforzheim.

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The district Pforzheim dates back to 1939, when the Bezirksamt Pforzheim was split into the district and the district-free city.

Karlsruhe: Karlsruhe (population 282,595 in December 2003) is a city of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the French-German border....

Heilbronn: Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart. This district-free city is completely surrounded by the district Heilbronn. It is located on the river Neckar . As of 2004, it has ~120,900 inhabitants....

Ludwigsburg: Ludwigsburg is a city in Germany, about 12 km north of Stuttgart's city center, by the river Neckar. It is the capital of the Ludwigsburg District (its largest city having at present ca 87,000 inhabitants), and belongs to the Stuttgart Region in the Administrative District of Stuttgart....