Neighbouring towns include Ulm, Senden, Pfaffenhofen an der Roth, Holzheim, Nersingen and Elchingen.

The town's real growth began a few decades later in 1841, when the Frankfurter Bundesversammlung announced the building of the Federal Fort of Ulm, the Bundesfestung.

[3][better source needed] After Neu-Ulm was connected to the railway line to Augsburg in 1853, soldiers arrived and a garrison was created there.

The coat of arms consists of three horizontal bands of black, white and blue, with a tower in front.

The districts are: Burlafingen, Finningen, Gerlenhofen, Hausen, Holzschwang (including Tiefenbach), Jedelhausen, Ludwigsfeld, Neu-Ulm, Offenhausen, Pfuhl, Reutti, Schwaighofen, Steinheim and Wiley.

He had succeeded Beate Merk, who had been appointed as Bavarian law minister by Edmund Stoiber on 14 October 2003.

The town council is arranged into four parliamentary groups with eight different parties and citizens' initiatives (the number of seats are shown in brackets): In 1994, the Neu-Ulm Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) was founded.

The School of Economics was first opened as a branch office of the Fachhochschule Kempten im Allgäu, but has been independent since 1998.