Neckarwestheim is a municipality with 3524 inhabitants in the Heilbronn district, Baden-Württemberg, in south-west Germany.

Neckarwestheim was first mentioned on March 5, 1123, in a document of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V called Westheim.

After World War II, the currently agricultural town received many refugees and exiles of the East.

In the 1970s, the nuclear power station of Neckarwestheim was built on the previous area of a quarry.

The previous mayor, Horst Armbrust, was accused of having embezzled more than 40 million DM of the municipal funds.

On January 24, 1996, he was sentenced by the Stuttgart district court to 8+1⁄2 years in prison for unfaithfulness and falsification of a document.

Population development:[3] Neckarwestheim is the location of the nuclear power station Neckar (GKN) which has two pressurized water reactors, rated 741 and 1365 MW.

The most important enterprise of Neckarwestheim is its nuclear power station carried on by the EnBW.