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.

==History== Until German mediatization, the town of Stein was ruled by both the Margraviate of Baden and the . After meditization, it was assigned to the Amt of Königsbach on 24 July 1813. On 25 May 1821, Stein was assigned to and Königsbach to . 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 , they were assigned to the new Enz district. Stein and Königsbach merged to form Königsbach-Stein on 1 July 1974. On 20 June 1989, of the Steiner Mittelberg, a local mountain, became the Federally-protected nature reserve (Naturschutzgebiet).