Heidenheim – The Town and Its Region
Heidenheim at the river Brenz is a town in Baden-Württemberg with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Situated at a height of 478-645 meters, Heidenheim represents the north-eastern border of the Swabian Jura.

Heidenheim means being close to nature: the landscape is characterized by agriculture, vast mixed forests and juniper heath land on which sheep are grazing, and where silver thistles, the symbol of the Swabian Jura, can be found. Heidenheim is the community with the largest area of woodland in the governmental district of Stuttgart. 

The area around Heidenheim offers a number of spectacular natural phenomena to inhabitants and visitors: erosions that are typical for limestone have created bizarre stone formations such as the “Stone Virgins” in the Eselsburg valley, caves, dry valleys, karst troughs without drainage, spring-fed lakes (at the source of the river Brenz in Königsbronn), so-called hunger wells and earth caves.



Hellenstein castle, built at around 1600, and its leisure park are excellent destinations for excursions and walks. The adjacent land accommodates the municipal deer park with numerous game enclosures. 

With cultural associations and sports clubs, open air and indoor pools and an evening high school for adults, Heidenheim offers a rich variety of sport,  leisure and educational facilities. Concerts performed by the Voith Orchestra, an annual opera festival, an open-air theater, a youth musical, an art museum and the shopping center “Castle Arcades” are other highlights of Heidenheim.




Further information about Heidenheim can be found on the following website: www.heidenheim.de