Since 2008 Wolfgang Haberberger is the mayor of Neustadt am Kulm.

The most important sight is the 682-metre-high Rauher Kulm with its 25-metre-high viewing tower.

[3] The medieval hilltop castles on the two Kulms were destroyed in 1554.

The Rauher Kulm was selected in a survey by the Heinz Sielmann Stiftung EUROPARC Deutschland as Germany's most beautiful natural wonder for 2013.

In third place was the Stiefel rock formation near St.