Bad Bibra

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Burgenland district
Association municipality :	On the fin
Height :	152 m above sea level NHN
Area :	49.77 km 2
Residents:	2706 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06647
Area code :	034465
License plate :	BLK, HHM, NEB, NMB, WSF, ZZ
Community key :	15 0 84 015
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 2a 06647 Bad Bibra
Website :	www.vgem-finne.de
Mayor :	Frederik Sandner ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Bibra in the Burgenland district

Bad Bibra is a small town in the Burgenland district in the south of Saxony-Anhalt and a state-approved resort . The city is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde An der Finne , which includes the cities of Eckartsberga and Bad Bibra as well as five other municipalities.

Bathing place

geography

Geographical location

The city is not far from the state border with Thuringia in the valley of the Biberbach , which flows five kilometers further northeast at Burgscheidungen into the Unstrut .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Nebra in the north, Finneland and Kaiserpfalz in the west, An der Poststraße and Balgstädt in the south and Laucha and Karsdorf in the east.

structure

The city of Bad Bibra consists of the administrative center Bad Bibra and other localities, which in turn are divided into districts.

Locality	Residents	Districts
Altenroda	554	Altenroda, Birkigt and Wippach
Bad Bibra	1540	Bad Bibra, Kalbitz, Steinbach and Wallroda
Golfing	693	Golzen and Krawinkel
Thalwinkel	182	Bergwinkel and Thalwinkel

history

Maria Magdalenen Church

Army car organ from 1871, prospectus

At the beginning of the 9th century Bibra was first mentioned as Bibraho in a list of the goods of the Hersfeld Monastery, built by Archbishop Lullus of Mainz († 786) . Bibra owes its name to its location on the Biberbach.

In the 10th century (after 919) there was a castle of the royal old Saxon family of the Liudolfinger here . In 963, Count Billing founds a Benedictine monastery on the imperial fiscal estate of Bibra . Around 1107, perhaps even earlier, the Benedictine monastery in Bibra was replaced by an Augustinian canon .

Bibra received market rights in 1124, and in 1550 the place was not referred to as a city but as a patch . The monastery was dissolved by the Reformation. From 1485 part of the Albertine Duchy, since 1547 of the Electorate of Saxony, where Bibra belonged to the Eckartsberga office of the Thuringian district , the office fell to the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels in 1656/57 with Bibra . The Gesundbrunnen was taken under the responsibility of the dukes. Bibra developed into the duchy's fashion spa. Bibra was the place of work of the great baroque cantata poet Erdmann Neumeister . In 1848, during the Revolution ( German Revolution 1848/49 ) , the city was one of the most important uprising areas in Prussian Thuringia (Province of Saxony). In the 19th century, bathing tourism flourished again, and the former Bibra Bad Bibra has been allowed to call itself since 1925 .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Kallbitz, Steinbach and Wallroda were incorporated.

On July 1, 2009, the municipalities of Altenroda , Golzen , Thalwinkel and the city of Bad Bibra merged.

The state-approved health resort Bad Bibra aims to become a Kneipp spa.

church

From 1869 to 1871, today's St. Maria Magdalena was built on the site of the former dilapidated collegiate church . The town church has an organ from the Wilhelm Heerwagen workshop with 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal from 1871. The instrument is the largest of the company in the region from 1855 to 1892 in Klosterhäseler . The organ prospect forms an architectural unit with the neo-Gothic nave.

politics

City council

The city ​​council of Bad Bibra has consisted of 15 members since the 2014 local elections:

• CDU : 11 seats
• Groups of voters : 3 seats
• Individual applicants: 1 seat

mayor

In March 2016, Frederik Sandner (CDU) was elected the new honorary mayor with 51.15% of the vote. Predecessor Hartmut Spengler did not run for election.

coat of arms

Historical coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on November 2, 2009.

Blazon : “Divided by silver over green; above a growing green fir tree, below a gold-reinforced silver beaver over blue ground. "

The colors of the city are white - green.

Historical coat of arms Blazon : "In silver in front of a green conifer on a green meadow and above blue water a natural beaver."

The talking city coat of arms is reminiscent of a tribe who lived in Hessen on the Biber, a left tributary of the Kinzig, and settled here. The place name means Biberbach.

flag

The flag is white - green (1: 1) striped.

Economy and Infrastructure

Once - beginning on December 10, 1909 with the sinking of the "Orlas" shaft around two kilometers west of the Wippach location on the site of a former brickworks - the pits of the potash works "Union Orlas" and "Union Nebra" were the most important employers. Were mined hard salt , carnallite and to a lesser extent, kainite and sylvite .

The Nebra shaft is located around one kilometer north of the Orlas shaft in a wooded area. The mine workings of the “Orlas and Nebra unions” extend over a length of around 2.5 kilometers in a stroke direction and a width of around 700 meters. Both mines were on the 467-meter sole interconnected. The material to be conveyed was ground up and brought to the loading facility in Wangen (Nebra) by cable car. From there, the salts went by rail and axle for further processing in the factory of the Roßleben mine . All surface facilities were demolished in 1934. Only a small remnant of the abyssal dump is left on the site near the Nebra shaft .

The Burgenland cheese dairy in Bad Bibra was the largest employer in town (106 employees) until it was closed by the owner Deutsches Milchkontor (DMK) in March 2018.

traffic

From the west you can reach Bad Bibra via the federal motorway 4 , exit Mellingen , and the B 87 and the B 250 , from the north-east via the federal motorway 9 and the B 176 .

The Finnebahn Laucha – Kölleda , where Bad Bibra had a train station, is no longer in operation. The new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line runs north of the town in the 6,466 meter long Bibra tunnel .

tourism

Schnecktal Bridge

Bad Bibra is located in the Saale-Unstrut tourist region and in the Saale-Unstrut-Triasland nature park . The place offers chariot rides , orchid hikes in the Bibra forest and two viaducts in the forest that belonged to the Laucha - Lossa railway connection, which was closed in 1993 . The health teaching according to Sebastian Kneipp is conveyed through guided tours and a Kneipp information center. Kneipp water facilities are available. Currently, healing water is being drilled and the construction of a new spa park is being prepared.

Personalities

• The Dukes of Sachsen-Weißenfels valued the healing spring and were prominent regular guests of Bibra: Duke August (1614–1680) had his personal physician Siebold scientifically investigate the healing effects of the spring, his son Duke Johann Adolf I (1649–1697) had the spring bordered, Duke Johann Georg (1677–1712) came regularly, and after Duke Christian (1682–1736) was cured of an eye disease by repeatedly using the Gesundbrunnen water in 1727 , he had the fountain cleaned and re-edged and remained a loyal spa guest until his death in 1736 .
• Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756), hymn poet, poet and theologian; from 1696 pastor in Bibra and around 1700/1702 author of the poem "Pensive reflections of the curieusen Brunnengastes zu Biebra".
• Christoph Förster (1693–1745), composer and violinist
• Carl Oswald Stockmann (* 1809) 1836–1848 (bathing) doctor in Bibra, 1848 during the revolution democrat and leader of the armed insurgents (mobile columns) in the Eckartsberga district with Bibra as its center; pardoned after conviction in 1855 and emigrated to America
• Friedrich (Karl) Zippel (1887–1960) was a Protestant pastor , member of the Confessing Church (BK), Nazi victim and prisoner in Dachau concentration camp .
• Hildegard Rothe-Ille b. Ille (1899–1942), mathematician
• Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche (1756-1826) was a German theologian . He was the grandfather of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche .
• The successful boxing world champion Franz Diener was born there, ran a sausage factory and was an innkeeper before he was the managing director and namesake of an artist's pub in Berlin-Charlottenburg that still exists today (2019) from 1954 to 1969. A permanent exhibition in the old town hall commemorates him.
• Werner Hartmann (* 1923), homeland researcher in Halberstadt

literature

• Johann Christian Hesse: The resurrecting Bebra in the wonderful, martial Gesundbrunnen restored there , 1766
• Christoph Georg Kreysig : Historical news from the Bebra monastery (Bibra). In: Contributions to the history of their Chur- und Fürstliche Sächsische Lande , Volume 1, Altenburg 1754, p. 319 ff., K. Kuminek: Bibraho 786 - Bad Bibra 1986: 1200 years first mentioned , Council of the City of Bad Bibra, 1986
• Louis Naumann : The Bibra Abbey and the Reformation . In: Sketches and pictures for a local history of the Eckartsberga district , published by Eckartshaus-Verlag, 1903
• Louis Naumann: The Archdiakonat Bibra - a legend: a contribution to the history of the ecclesiastical division of Thuringia in the Middle Ages , 1910
• Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Schulze: The Bibra Abbey . In: Journal of the Association for Church History in the Province of Saxony 7, 1910, pp. 42–86
• Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Schulze: Bibra along with the Steinbach and Wallroda branches in the past and present . 2 volumes, Eckartsberga 1896/97 ( digitized version )
• Rudolf Tomaszewski: Building blocks of a chronicle: 1200 years Bad Bibra , Liberal Demokratische Zeitung (LDZ), 15 parts, 1986

Web links

Commons : Bad Bibra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Bad Bibra  - travel guide

• Website of the association community “An der Finne”, Bad Bibra headquarters

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
3. ↑ City Council Bad Bibra. In: vgem-finne.de. Retrieved August 25, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Gerd Stöckel: Mayor election: In Bad Bibra Sandner just ahead. In: Naumburger Tageblatt. March 13, 2016, accessed January 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Official Journal of the State Administration Office of Saxony-Anhalt No. 14/2009 page 383  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 187 kB)
6. ^ Lexicon of cities and coats of arms of the GDR
7. ↑ More information: Bad Bibra Dairy Cooperative ( Memento of October 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 2, 2017
8. ↑ DMK Group wants to position itself leaner , press release from June 28, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2017.
9. ^ Bad Bibra: Dairy closes despite black numbers. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, April 4, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Welcome to the SERVANT. Retrieved January 8, 2019 . 
11. ^ Information board on Diener's former home in Bad Bibra, recorded on October 2, 2017