Neufang was founded ca. 1325.  The first settlers are thought to have been miners and shepherds.  In 1506, Neufang was described as a circular village situated around a pond on a gentle slope.  The property records in Kronach listed Phillip von Wallenfels to Lichtenfels and Thierbach as the administrator.  In 1507, Neufang included 21 properties, 1 parish house, 1 grain mill in the Remschnitz, and a sawmill for Neufang in Leitsch, 43 cleared and plowed fields.

 

In 1833, Dr. Joseph Anton Eisenmann describes Neufang in a report to the Archbishop in Bamberg as, "The parish of Neufang, which lies in the southeastern district of the diaconate of Teuschnitz - expanded in the royal jurisdiction of Kronach and  the patrimonial jurisdiction of Oberrodach and Weissenbrunn of the Obermain area includes: 1 church, 1 cemetery, 1 village, 4 hamlets, 3 remote farms, and 537 souls including 1 Protestant."

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In 1925, the village included 587 inhabitants.  In 1978, there were 724 inhabitants, and, in 2011, approximately 740 inhabitants.

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The parish church, St. Laurentius zu Neufang, was founded in 11 Sept. 1492, and celebrated its 500th anniversary in 1992.  

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​Neufang’s coat-of-arms includes a red miner’s hammer and shepherd’s shovel signifying the occupation of the earliest dwellers, the black grill signifies the Patron, St. Laurentius (Lawrence) martyred death by burning on a grill.

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