In Fiction
- Neustadt is the hometown of the protagonist in Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kästner's famous children's book. Here Neustadt refers to Neustadt, Dresden, where Kästner spent his childhood.
- In the 1963 film The Great Escape the railway station near the prison camp, where many of the escaped prisoners are seen to board a train after escaping, is named Neustadt.
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