Stadt Neuenstadt am Kocher

The Teutonic Order era in Kochertürn

There is no evidence of any link between the town’s name and Count von Dürn (Walldürn).

However, the sale of the town to Kurmainz (Electoral Mainz) by Lord von Weinsberg in 1335 is historically proven. Kochertürn came under the ownership of the Order of Teutonic Knights in 1483 through an exchange.

This means that Kochertürn was under clerical rule for almost five hundred years until its secularisation and acquisition by Württemberg in 1805. Today there are still traces of the time when the town was ruled by the Order of Teutonic Knights.

The Church of the Assumption (1752/1813) and the parsonage (1792) are imposing Baroque structures disproportionately large for a town of this size. A series of beautiful wayside altars adorn the town and the district, to which the hamlet of Brambacher Hof has been affiliated since 1931.

Kochertürn is linked to the central town of Neuenstadt by an old byway and a Medieval bridge over the Kocher River, and, like Neuenstadt, shared the fate of being severely damaged in April 1945.