It is a typical provincial town within the prosperous easily accessible periphery of a city region.

The fertile silt soils in the hills around the town lend themselves to intensive agricultural exploitation, and farms are situated on the fields and orchards outside the urban areas.

The new name and coat of arms of the town was based on the family name of the hereditary barons of Freyberg, who held the castle and most of the parish of Beihingen from 1534 until 1569.

Freiberg's rail link is the Backnang–Ludwigsburg railway, served by the S4 line (Backnang–Marbach–Stuttgart Schwabstraße) of the Stuttgart S-Bahn.

In 2008, it was among the finalists for the prestigious German school award Deutscher Schulpreis conferred by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Businessman Arthur Benseler (1925 – 2010) had a lifelong enthusiastic and active interest in African art and culture.

He designed his private home from the outset as a centre for African art, music, and literature, such that over the years it became known as the Africa House.

The house and its grounds contain some 150 sculptures and pictures, some of which Arthur Benseler collected on his voyages over 30 years, while the rest have been added by the town of Freiberg.

Within sight of Amandus church lies the Old Castle of Beihingen, built by the hereditary barons of Nothaft and Gemmingen.

The New Castle on the other side of the road was built in 1573 by Friedrich von Breitenbach and used ever since as a residence by a succession of aristocratic families.

Within the old village centre lies the old town hall from the 16th and 17th centuries, where Johann Friedrich Flattich was born.

Further buildings from the 17th century within the farmyard of the lower castle are the old oil mill and the former wine press house.

At the town's exit towards Ludwigsburg-Eglosheim lies the largest original Chinese house in Europe.

In November 2008 the district court at Stuttgart decided that the bankrupt operator had to return the property to the town.

[6] At the centre of the former village of Heutingsheim was the townhall built in 1781 in the classicistic style within a warren of narrow alleys and side streets.

The headstones show the biblical apostles Simon and Jude (Thaddeus) and Mary with the Child as Queen of Heaven.

The building complex erected around 1700 with its manor and triple-winged outhouse is delimited towards the street by a castle wall.

Untypical for the region, however, are the Low German elements in the timber-framed gables of the outhouse as seen from the road.

The nature reserve Altneckar with its riparian forest and the adjacent grassland valley is an idyllic local recreational area and ecological oasis between the townships of Freiberg, Pleidelsheim, and Ingersheim.

By the joint efforts of the town and the BUND there too a protective area was created, in the occurrence a dark moist wood biotope.