Between 1971 and 1975, a total of 18 surrounding municipalities, including the above-mentioned communities from the District of Hechingen, were assigned to "Landkreis Horb" or its legal successor, "Landkreis Freudenstadt". The districts of both Horb and Hechingen were dissolved as part of Baden-Württemberg's 1973 local government reforms, and the majority of Horb's territory, including the city itself, was transferred to Freudenstadt, itself now part of the newly created Northern Black Forest Region in the recently expanded "Regierungsbezirk" of Karlsruhe. This is how a town that once belonged to Württemberg came to be administered from the former capital of Baden.