Bad Liebenstein
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Bad Liebenstein
City of Bad Liebenstein
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| height : | 330 (320–350) m |
| Area : | 16.4 km² |
| residents : | 3971 (Dec 31, 2011) |
| population density : | 242 inhabitants/km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 2012 |
| Zip code : | 36448 |
 Location of Bad Liebenstein in Bad Liebenstein
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Bad Liebenstein – until 1907 Liebenstein ( Saxony-Meiningen ) – is the eponymous and most populous district of the town of Bad Liebenstein in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The district has a tradition as a spa , spa and tourist town. It became known nationwide as the summer residence of the Meiningen ducal family, as Thuringia's oldest spa and as the largest heart health resort in the GDR in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park . With 342,000 overnight stays, the city ranked fifth among Thuringia's tourism destinations in 2016, according to the Thuringian State Office for Statistics. In the meantime, the city has slipped to 7th place due to falling overnight stays.
On December 31, 2012, the town of Bad Liebenstein merged with the neighboring communities of Schweina and Steinbach to form a new town of Bad Liebenstein with around 8,000 inhabitants.
geography
Geographical location
Bad Liebenstein is located in the northwestern Thuringian Forest , which is characterized by mountains ( Inselsberg and Gerberstein ) and mixed forests . The city is framed by the Burgberg , the Aschenberg and the Antoniusberg . To the southwest there is a view of the Werra valley with the mountains of the Vorder rhön , with the Pleß being the closest. Larger towns in the area are Eisenach , about 30 kilometers north, Meiningen about 30 kilometers south, Bad Salzungen , district town of the Wartburg district, about 15 kilometers west and Schmalkalden about 15 kilometers south-east of Bad Liebenstein.
The height of Bad Liebenstein is given as 344 m above sea level . This is the height of the former train station, while the lowest point at Meimers is 267 m above sea level. NN is the highest point at about 540 m above sea level. NN below the Frauenberg.
geology
The Thuringian Forest consists of a block of Paleozoic rocks from the former Variscan Mountains ( Ruhlaer crystalline). In the Zechstein Age, a sea flooded the remaining mountains. The fracture tectonics led to the emergence of the Thuringian Forest. In this context, parallel fault fissures were created, which also run through the town. The Liebensteiner disturbance is to be thanked for the origin of the healing springs. At the former Korällchen quarry, the penetration of magma into a different type of rock, here Liebensteiner Gneiss , becomes clear. There are also differences in the immediate vicinity: While there is sandstone on the Aschenberg , part of a Zechstein reef has been preserved on the Altenstein. In the direction of the Rennsteig, one encounters porphyry and granite as well as ore veins from the Rotliegend .
climate
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Average temperature for Bad Liebenstein
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“The city is located in a basin-like valley, the surrounding mountains in the eastern hemisphere up to about 450m above sea level. NN rise. In terms of overall climate, Bad Liebenstein belongs to the central German mountain and hill country climate, which merges into the German low mountain range climate in the north-east. The average annual precipitation is 730 millimeters. In the presence of moist air masses and southwesterly winds, the city gets into the congestion area of the Thuringian Forest with cloudy, rainy weather. The influence of a foehn wind becomes noticeable when the air supply is north-easterly . Fair weather occurs most frequently (32% of the year), followed by showery weather (26%), bad weather (23%) and cloudiness (19%). Summer days were counted 21 times a year, hot days an average of three. Overall, Bad Liebenstein offers mild to very mild climatic attractions. In the cold season, the climatic stimuli are stronger, but the wind protection of the valley ensures that only a third of the days are extremely cold . During clear, quiet nights, a cold air lake develops, the possibility of drainage through the Grumbachtal being very limited. However, the cold air lake is occasionally destroyed at night by winds blowing down from the Thuringian Forest."
story
- Recordings around 1900
Castle ruins Liebenstein
View from the Reichshöhe
View of the spa center
Altenstein Castle
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Middle Ages to 19th Century
The Bad Liebenstein area once belonged to the Thuringian Westergau. In the 13th and early 14th centuries it was part of the sphere of influence of the Lords of Frankenstein . Due to numerous feuds and debts, they had to sell a large part of their possessions in 1330 to the princely Counts of Henneberg who were related to them.
The name Liebenstein (from the Middle High German lie , liewe , Old Norse hlie , meaning the thicket, the shady canopy of leaves) was once only given to the castle whose ruins crown the castle hill. In 1353 the area passed to the House of Wettin via a division of inheritance from Henneberg , who in 1360 enfeoffed it to the Lords of Stein . Their family owned the castle until the Liebenstein line died out. Liebenstein Castle was first mentioned in a document in the 14th century . At the end of the 16th century, houses were built in the valley between the Schlossberg (also called Burgberg ) and the Aschenberg, where the source originated. This was known to the residents as Suerborn , meaning acidulous water, and gave the settlement its name. After the Erfurt partition of the Ernestine -Wettine Duchy of Saxony in 1572, the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach ruled .
In 1610 Andreas Libavius , the director of the Coburg Gymnasium at the time, published the Tractatus Medicus Physicus and Historia of the excellent Casimirisches Sawer well / under Libenstein / not far from Schmalkalden . Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg , to whom the healing spring was recommended, used the cure in the newly founded fountain town for ten summers. At that time it was still a very small settlement: in 1648 there were only one hundred and seventy inhabitants. After the death of Ernst the Pious , the dominion, known as the court of Liebenstein , fell to his son, Duke Bernhard I of Saxe-Meiningen , in 1677 . He had apartments built for spa guests and the new well covered so that it was protected from the weather. In 1680, Altenstein Castle fell to Saxe-Meiningen, and there were initial plans to build a summer residence. Another well writing followed: Short report of the Liebenstein acidulous well by Dr. Waldmann, Princely Hessen-Casselischer Leib-Medicus, Schmalkalden 1718. Three years earlier, Grumbach received market rights.
In 1791, the Meiningen court physician Friedrich Jahn drew the attention of his employer, Duke George I of Saxe-Meiningen, to the healing power of the Liebenstein springs; his report concluded with the words: "No other Wiesbaden , Schwalbach and Ems was as valuable to culture as Liebenstein". In 1801, the two villages of Sauerbrunnen and Grumbach were united into one municipality and a church was built halfway, which later had to be demolished due to dilapidation. The new place, which was often called that before, was now officially given the name of the castle: Liebenstein. In 1815 Friedrich Mosengeil published his travel guide Das Bad Liebenstein and its surroundings , supplemented by the supplement . Chemical analysis of the iron-rich acid spring in Liebenstein. Employed at the source in August 1812 by D. Joh. Bartholomä Trommsdorff and in 1826 the book Liebenstein und die Neue Arkadier. Nature Painting and Narration .
In 1840 the cold-water sanatorium was established, from which the sanatorium and later House I of the hospital emerged (see medical facilities). Proper heart cures were administered from 1861. Numerous other buildings that still characterize the cityscape today were built in the course of the 19th century, such as the Comödienhaus (today the Kurtheater ), the Palais Weimar, the conversion of the Fischernes Schloss to the Kurhaus (today the Kulturhotel Kaiserhof), the Hotel Duchess Charlotte (today empty ) as well as numerous other hotels and guesthouses as well as private and ducal villas.
In 1849, the educator Friedrich Fröbel , the founder of the kindergartens, settled in Liebenstein. He first lived in the old post office opposite the bathhouse, then in Gut am Aschenberg, today the Hotel Fröbelhof, before he got the Marienthaler Schlösschen and opened the first school for kindergarten teachers there, which was one of the first vocational training institutions for women in Germany.
In 1873, Duke George II married the actress Ellen Franz (then Freifrau von Heldburg ) in secret at Villa Feodora . During this time, the place exceeded the 1000-inhabitant limit.
Many artists and personalities of the 19th century visited Bad Liebenstein and Altenstein Castle or worked here for some time, including Charlotte von Stein , Christian August Vulpius , August von Kotzebue , Carl Wagner , the English Queen Adelheid (a daughter of George I. von Sachsen-Meiningen), the aforementioned Friedrich Fröbel, Franz Liszt , Anton Rubinstein , Richard Wagner , Otto von Bismarck , Henrik Ibsen , Josef Kainz and also Johannes Brahms . This epoch – beginning with the takeover of the spa business by Duke George I in 1800 up to the death of Duke George II in 1914 – was decisive for the development of Bad Liebenstein.
20th century
In 1907 Kaiser Wilhelm II bestowed the addition of Bad on Liebenstein , and Maximilian Graf von Wiser became head of the new ophthalmological institute. In 1917, the owners converted the bathing establishment into a public limited company and from then on traded under the name Herzogliches Bad Liebenstein Thüringer Wald Aktiengesellschaft , but it was only eight years later that the public limited company found calm waters. The majority of shares went to Fritz Lauterbach, who ran the baths until it was expropriated in 1947. In 1923 there was the first community association, consisting of the districts of Bad Liebenstein , Schweina and Steinbach , which failed after a short time. In the 1930s the district settlement was created .
A frequent guest in the 1920s was the writer Gerhart Hauptmann . He accompanied his wife Magarethe, who was suffering from an eye condition, to a therapy stay lasting several weeks with the so-called “Liebenstein miracle doctor”, Maximilian Graf von Wiser. Hauptmann also used these annual stays in the Thuringian Forest for lectures and the writing down or revision of works. His stay was always a cultural event and the spa guests present from the high and wealthy nobility of that era.
During the November 1938 pogrom , the Jewish owners of a textile shop were attacked. The men were deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp and forced to give up their business upon their return. With the beginning of the Second World War , the large hotels and health resorts were converted into military hospitals , and from 1941 Bad Liebenstein lost its health resort status and became a military hospital town. More than 90 forced labourers , mostly from the Soviet Union , were used in various companies - since 1946 a Soviet memorial in the cemetery has commemorated the 23 victims. On April 4, 1945, the US Army entered the town without a fight. The German medical officers were also supposed to put down their handguns, but this was rejected with reference to the Geneva Conventions . Later, the Red Army took over all of Thuringia, Bad Liebenstein was in the Soviet occupation zone . A fire broke out in the Hotel Kaiserhof , which had been seized by the Red Army, and the tower collapsed and the central section almost burned out.
In 1948, Bad Liebenstein was given the name Volksheilbad Liebenstein . The domain and the former Agnesheim were converted into the Heinrich Mann Sanatorium in 1949 , which became part of the Berlin Government Hospital. On July 1, 1950, the hitherto independent communities of Bayroda and Schweina became part of Bad Liebenstein. In 1959, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic , the large municipality of Bad Liebenstein (with Glücksbrunner Werke , Profisch , Schweina , Marienthal and Bairoda ) received city rights “in recognition of the great merits in all areas of economic, cultural and political life” . In order to solve the acute housing problem, the houses of the workers' housing cooperative (AWG) were built around 1960. Twenty-four years later, the municipality of Schweina and the district of Bairoda (zu Meimers) were spun off from the city again. By then, about 8,600 people lived in the city.
With the construction of the culture center in 1982 (from 1992 the town hall, which was closed by building authorities in 2007 and demolished in 2017), the town received a new cultural center with a stage hall, restaurant, bar, bowling alley, youth club and club rooms. At that time, 1,500 guest beds were available in the town, and around 16,000 spa guests and around 2,000 vacationers visited the town every year. The political turnaround in the GDR also brought far-reaching changes for the spa town. All industrial jobs in the city broke away. The public health spa was assigned to the state of Thuringia and merged into the m&i clinic company of the Enzensberg clinic group and the Dr. Lauterbach Klinik GmbH split up. The government hospital Heinrich-Mann-Sanatorium was passed to the Dr. Becker Group sold (owned by RHM since 2013 ). All three companies built new clinics in 1993. During this time, the last major expansion of Bad Liebenstein took place, the new residential areas Am Mühlweg and, shortly afterwards, Am Hölzchen .
In 1993, Meimers and its district of Bairoda were incorporated into Bad Liebenstein .
21st century
In 2001, the outpatient spa and the spa properties became the property of the city. The Kurhaus , which had been vacant for years , was renovated and reopened as the four-star Hotel Kaiserhof at Whitsun 2006.
After the partial demolition of the old building in 2007, a new spa center was built and handed over on May 16, 2009 as the Kurhaus Bad Liebenstein . At the same time, after the demolition of the Bad Liebenstein fluorescent factory operated from 1948 to 1990 and the renovation of the site, the construction of the new city park in the Grumbachaue was completed. A medical care center was opened in July 2009 in the part of the old spa center that was not demolished. On February 2, 2010, Bad Liebenstein became the eighth health resort in Thuringia to receive permanent state recognition as a health spa under the Thuringian Health Resorts Act .
On November 2, 2011, the mayors of the municipalities of Bad Liebenstein, Steinbach and Schweina signed a contract on the formation of a unified municipality and the municipalities were dissolved on December 31, 2012 and merged to form the new town of Bad Liebenstein.
After the referendum held on December 6, 2015, the Herzog-Georg-Carree is to be built in the city center as a successor to the dilapidated town hall.
religions
The Saxon areas were reformed very early on . Martin Luther's family lived in neighboring Möhra until shortly before he was born, and above Altenstein Castle is the place where Luther was captured, from where he was taken to the Wartburg.
Since the Reformation in the 16th century, the area around Bad Liebenstein has been predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran . The Friedenskirche was built in 1822 next to Villa Feodora on Friedensallee. An earlier church that stood between the two towns of Suerborn and Grumbach had become dilapidated and was demolished. Another evangelical church is in the district of Meimers. However, this community no longer has its own pastor, the pastor of Steinbach is responsible here.
Only since the Second World War has there been a small Roman Catholic community, which set up a chapel in the former Catholic Kurheim Maria Regina . The construction of a separate church could only be realized in 2000 with the church of St. Kilian on Ruhlaer Straße. Since 2008, the Catholic parish of St. Kilian has only been a branch parish after merging with the Catholic parish in Bad Salzungen . It shares its pastor with the parish church in Bad Salzungen ; the pastor, in turn, shares the work with a clinic chaplain (a pastor in charge of the rehabilitation clinics).
A tradition that has been cultivated since the 1970s is the annual carpet of flowers laid out by members of the Catholic community for the feast of Corpus Christi .
population development
The population of Bad Liebenstein has fluctuated around 4,000 since the late 1980s.
| Population development in the town of Bad Liebenstein | |||||||||||
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| year | resident | year | resident | year | resident | year | resident | year | resident | year | resident |
| 1648 | 170 | 1920 | 2060 | 1984 | 3752 | 1997 | 4069 | 2003 | 4124 | 2009 | 3965 |
| 1811 | 535 | 1933 | 2387 | 1989 | 4138 | 1998 | 4077 | 2004 | 4092 | 2010 | 3969 |
| 1827 | 622 | 1938 | 2405 | 1990 | 4198 | 1999 | 4064 | 2005 | 4102 | 2011 | 3971 |
| 1844 | 900 | 1939 | 2625 | 1994 | 4143 | 2000 | 4077 | 2006 | 4076 | ||
| 1880 | 1150 | 1960 | 8087* | 1995 | 4165 | 2001 | 4094 | 2007 | 4048 | ||
| 1900 | 1500 | 1970 | 8588* | 1996 | 4096 | 2002 | 4153 | 2008 | 4018 | ||
| * after merger with Schweina 1923-1924 and 1950-1974 | |||||||||||
dialect
The Liebenstein dialect is influenced by West Thuringia and Henneberg . A precise boundary cannot be drawn as these two dialects flow into one another. An exact language border is the Thuringian Forest in the north, with Central Thuringian being spoken on the opposite side. In contrast to Bad Liebenstein, a slight Saxon influence is noticeable there.
However, the Liebensteiner dialect is only maintained by a few residents, only the annual carnival motto of the Surborner Carnevalclub is formulated in the Liebensteiner dialect. Examples of this are: "Bu me firn is quite egoal, if necessary even in the Hünnerstoal" (It doesn't matter where we celebrate, if necessary even in the chicken coop) or "Spetzt die Orn's schlöt gläich Zwellef!" (Prick up your ears, it's beating equal to twelve). Another example of the Bad Liebensteiner dialect can be found on the emergency money notes of the municipality from 1921: "Määi appreciate our Geest sähr hooch, but Hüts unn Broate höcher nooch. Bääi so enn Gute Sonntichsässe tutt me de trurich Ziet vergässe." (We value our guests very highly, only Thuringian dumplings and roasts even higher. With such a good Sunday meal, you forget the sad time.)
politics
City and administrative division
city outline
The office of Liebenstein included the two villages of Sauerborn (Suerborn, Sauerbrunnen) and Grumbach (Grummich), from which the municipality emerged in 1801. The three settlements of Raboldsgrube (also called Heide), Sorga (the former domain) and Wolfsberg also belong to the city . The former district of Bairoda was added to the municipality of Meimers in the 1970s . The district of Altenstein Castle with the landscape park and castle (formerly part of Schweina) remained with the city of Bad Liebenstein after the dissolution of the greater community in 1950 (see section: Incorporations) in the early 1970s. Since 1993, the two districts of Meimers and Bairoda have also belonged to the city.
administrative division
The municipality belonged to the district of Meiningen in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , later the state of Thuringia , after the district reform in the GDR in 1950 to the district of Bad Salzungen in the district of Suhl . When the state of Thuringia was re-established in 1990, another district reform followed in 1994 , with which the city came under the Wartburg district .
incorporations
On August 13, 1993, Meimers was incorporated with the district of Bairoda.
Already in 1923 there was a merger of Schweina, Steinbach and Bad Liebenstein. In 1924 this episode ended. In 1950 there was another merger with neighboring Schweina, which was now called Bad Liebenstein II. This time, too, the connection only lasted until March 31, 1974. Only the district of Altenstein remained with Bad Liebenstein, although it has no direct connection to the town.
At the beginning of the new millennium there were attempts to establish a common Altensteiner Oberland . A referendum in Schweina rejected this in April 2004 due to old sensitivities and the allegedly bad financial situation of the city of Bad Liebenstein. Since the state of Thuringia last promoted a merger of municipalities in 2011 and a merger of Schweina and Steinbach to form a rural municipality was rejected by the state government, the formation of a unified municipality was agreed by the three mayors on November 2, 2011 and became final on December 31, 2012.
election results
The source of the election results for the city of Bad Liebenstein is the state returning officer of Thuringia. Election results from 2013 can be found in the article Bad Liebenstein (municipality)#election results .
| Political party | City Council 1999 1 |
City Council 2004 1 |
City Council 2009 1 |
district council 1999 |
district council 2004 |
district assembly 2009 2 |
State Parliament 1999 3rd |
state parliament 2004 3 |
Parliament 2009 2nd, 3rd |
Bundestag 2005 3 |
Europe 2009 |
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| CDU | 14.8% (3) | 26.0% (4) | 24.8% (4) | 33.5% | 35.9% | 29.5% | 47.3% | 41.4% | 29.1% | 22.5% | 26.8% |
| SPD | 8.8% (1) | – | – | 28.9% | 11.6% | 16.5% | 21.3% | 15.8% | 18.1% | 32.7% | 15.2% |
| PDS/The Left | 12.7% (2) | 18.4% (3) | 23.9% (4) | 18.7% | 26.5% | 25.1% | 22.2% | 27.3% | 30.6% | 25.8% | 26.7% |
| Free voters | 53.6% (9) | 25.5% (4) | 26.3% (4) | – | 14.7% | 11.5% | – | 4.8% | 3.8% | – | 2.7% |
| FDP | 3.8% (0) | List with CDU | List with CDU | 6.1% | 4.8% | 5.4% | 0.9% | 2.5% | 5.4% | 8.6% | 7.4% |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | 6.4% (1) | – | – | 12.9% | 6.5% | 4.8% | 3.3% | 4.8% | 5.4% | 5.2% | 7.0% |
| Citizens Association (BVB) | – | 30.1% (5) | 25.0% (4) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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1 Allocation of seats in brackets. 2 For the first time, the NPD received a relevant share of 6.6% in the 2009 district election and 6.7% in the 2009 state election. |
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In the state elections of 1999 , 2004 and 2009 , MP Gustav Bergemann (CDU) was elected as a direct candidate. The defeated Sabine Doht (SPD) entered the state parliament with the help of the state list. In the 2005 federal election , Ernst Kranz (SPD) was directly elected to the Bundestag. Christian Hirte (CDU), who was not elected , also became a member of the Bundestag as a successor in 2008.
City council
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| fraction | CDU / FDP | The left | fw | BVB | |||||||
| members | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
The last city council elected before the formation of the unified municipality had 16 seats. In the municipal elections in 2009 , the four parties and voter associations that took part received four seats each. Although the Free Voters received the most votes, only Die Linke, which took over a seat from the citizens' association compared to the 2004 election , was able to benefit .
A joint city council for the new unified community was first elected on March 10, 2013.
Mayor 1864–2012
- Wilhelm Reum (1864)
- Ferdinand Schwarz (1864–1882)
- Heinrich Konstantin Gonnermann (1882–1883)
- Heinrich Kaiser (1883–1919)
- Friedrich Heinrichs (1919–1925, 1st term)
- Herman Dietrich (1925–1931)
- Friedrich Heinrichs (1932–1945, 2nd term)
- Karl Eichel (1945–1948)
- Walter Ritzmann (1949)
- Paul Wieseler (1950-1951)
- Heinrich Lux (1951–1957)
- Klara Hotzel (1957–1961)
- Edwin Albrecht (1961-1965)
- Irmgard Schaefer (1965–1988)
- Wolfgang Reich (1988) – acting
- Gisela Schneider (1988-1990)
- Fritz Eberhard Reich (CDU, 1990-1994)
- Udo Rommel (FDP, 1994-1997)
- Commissioned Plobner (1998)
- Hans Beck (FW, 1998–2006)
- Elke Engelmann (BVB list, 2006–2012)
- Michael Brodführer (single applicant, September to December 2012) – on a voluntary basis
The former mayors of Schweina and Steinbach became district mayors when the unified community was founded .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Bad Liebenstein district: Blazon : Diagonally divided from white to red, in front a red heart, topped with a small white temple, behind a structure consisting of a ball, cylinder and cube.
The red heart stands for the heart spa with the fountain temple, which is located on the site of the first Liebensteiner healing spring. Dice, roller and ball point to the work of Friedrich Fröbel in the city. Although the Fröbel monument and most of Fröbel's places of work have belonged to Schweina again since the early 1970s, the coat of arms created in 1951 was still in use.
town twinning
There are town twinnings with the towns of Melsungen in Hesse and Tréon in France . Since 1990, the town twinning association Bad Liebenstein e. V. has set itself the goal of promoting a better understanding of Europe among citizens and filling the European community with life. At least once a year there is a meeting of representatives from both cities, usually with a cultural and travel program.
buildings and sights
buildings
Liebenstein Castle has stood above the town since the 14th century . It has been falling into disrepair since the 17th century and is now just a ruin. Here are the remains of a Gothic palace (before 1360) and remains of a defensive wall. In the Grumbachschen Handel of 1567, the castle was partially destroyed. There has been a castle community since the 1930s, which also created the lookout tower. The Liebenstein castle ruins now belong to the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation , which works together with Natur- und Heimatfreunde Bad Liebenstein to preserve the ruins. A little below is the Ida monument. It was erected in 1854 by Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen as a token of gratitude to his older sister, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen , later Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , after her death. Three modern spa clinics have been working in the fields of cardiology, orthopedics and neurology since 1994.
Spa facilities (spa building, foyer, theatre) with the fountain temple from 1816 were built in the classicist style , while the post office building from 1895 was in the Franconian-Henneberg half-timbered style. The post office was immortalized on a special postage stamp from the GDR in 1982 . The Palais Weimar (formerly also the Princely House) was built around 1805 as a classicist building with Doric columns and a domed hall. Today it houses the town and spa library. Very close by is the fountain temple (also spring temple) at the point where the first Liebenstein healing spring bubbled up. However, this source, like some others, has dried up. While the well from 1927 is currently not being used, the spa facilities are being supplied with the well from the 1951 well from a depth of more than a hundred meters. The spring was known as the strongest carbonic manganese - iron - arsenic source in the GDR. While arsenic used to be used in medicine in small doses, it is now absorbed using a modern filter system.
Just outside the town is Altenstein Castle , an English-style castle built in 1888-1890 and the summer residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen. In addition to Altenstein Castle, there are two other summer residences of the Meiningen ducal house in Bad Liebenstein: Villa Georg and Villa Feodora . Villa Georg has a diamond-patterned beaver tail roof and a one meter tall figure of Saint George . The Villa Feodora was built in 1860 according to plans by Ludwig Lange . It is a Swiss house with Lüftlmalereien by the Munich Spieß brothers based on designs by Ludwig Richter .
In 1924, the founder of the Bauhaus movement , the architect Walter Gropius , presented plans for a Friedrich Fröbel House on the Aschenberg. These plans were not implemented because of the hesitant attitude of the local councils at the time and because the Bauhaus left Weimar in 1925. In view of the increasing international interest in Fröbel's teachings, after 1990 Gropius' plans were considered as a pedagogical education and research facility for educators , which received new impetus with the Bauhaus year 2009. However, up to now no investor has been found to realize these plans. The newly built Walter-Gropius-Strasse is located on the edge of the formerly planned building site. In his book "Inventing Kindergarten", the American author Norman Brosterman refers to the connection between the originality of the Bauhaus and Friedrich Fröbel's toys.
parks
Altensteiner Park , one of the largest German landscape parks
Detail at Elisabeth Park
Meerkats in the zoo
The new city park at the Grumbachaue
In the center of the city is the Elisabethpark , which was laid out with several ponds by the owners of the baths at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1970s, a fallow deer enclosure and an aviary were built . After the turnaround in the GDR , both were given up again. A little above the Elisabeth Park, the Tierpark Bad Liebenstein was created in 1996 by a private initiative on the site of a former meadow orchard. While in the beginning domestic animals such as goats , deer and squirrels were in the foreground, the non-profit animal park association, which is also a member of the German Animal Park Society , is now also focusing on more exotic animals such as meerkats , porcupines and iguanas . Irrespective of this, the NABU bird show is located next to the entrance to the zoo.
The spa park is bordered by the buildings of the Kaiserhof, the theater and Villa Feodora and merges into the forested landscape of the castle hill to the north. You can fish in the quiet valley halfway towards Meimers.
The new city park on the Grumbachaue was handed over for use on May 16, 2009 together with the new Kur(mittel)haus. It was created on the site of the former fluorescent factory. It is centrally located a short distance from the three rehabilitation clinics.
natural monuments
The nature reserve Hohe Klinge - Dorngehege is located to the east of the village and covers a total area of 90.18 hectares. It was first designated on March 23, 1961.
In the Altensteiner Zechstein Reef natural monument , a few rocks remained standing in the otherwise predominant gneisses and granites as well as sandstone . This is how the Altenstein cave , the rock theater and a spring that is only active at times, the drinking hole , came into being. The rare sequoias and ginkgoes can also be found in Park Altenstein.
At various geological outcrops on the Haderkopf , in the Korällchen or on the Eselssprung you get an insight into the diversity of the earth's history.
A 1000-year-old linden tree stands on the central village square in the district of Bairoda.
Arts and Culture
Kurtheater
The Kurtheater in Bad Liebenstein has existed since 1800. At the end of the 1990s, gaming operations came to a complete standstill. Since the belated 200-year celebration in 2004, the house, run by a support association, has been used regularly again. The Kurtheater has 336 seats (+ 8 wheelchair places) in the stalls and in the tier. The foyer can accommodate around 100 people.
library
Since the early 1970s, the joint city and spa library has been located in the "Palais Weimar". The full-time library also looks after two branch offices in the primary school and in the M&I specialist clinic.
outdoor stage
At the end of the spa center behind the Kurhotel Kaiserhof there is an open-air stage in the so-called sinkhole , which was built in the 1950s as a so-called national reconstruction work . After the stage later fell into disrepair, the spa administration created a Kneipp water-treading pool with a foot reflex zone path . A concert shell was erected right next to it, which is used for spa concerts. Another natural stage is the rock theater in the forest on the side of the castle hill facing Steinbach, which was used for the performance of comedies in the 19th century .
cinema
There was a cinema behind the open-air stage, which could be reached via a long flight of stairs from Herzog-Georg-Strasse near the fountain temple. It had a classic movie theater with a gallery. It was demolished around 1995. Today there is an extension of the Pension Felsenkeller . Since the Hotel Kaiserhof reopened in 2006, cinema screenings have taken place there.
Museums
Since the mid-1990s, there has been the show mine "Am Aschenberg" on Inselbergstraße , which was built around and in an old beer cellar . An old mine railway (600 mm gauge), trams and mining equipment from the Steinbach shaft provide information about the mining history of the region. A beer garden with LGB system invite you to linger.
A very small bathing museum in the lobby shows finds and objects from the history of the bath.
music
The musical traditions in Bad Liebenstein go back to around 1800, when Duke George I of Saxony-Meiningen acquired the town and took over the spa business. The Meiningen court clarinettist Carl Andreas Göpfert was responsible for the bathing music, composed numerous harmonies and rearranged works by well-known composers who were popular at the time. His arrangements have been preserved in numerous archives worldwide. Meiningen also has a collection of harmony music from the mid-19th century, which was used for daily bathing music in Bad Liebenstein up until the 1880s.
In 1802, the Meiningen naturalist and director of the forestry and hunting school in Dreißigacker , Johann Matthäus Bechstein , published the collection of songs for increasing social joys, especially in the Bade zu Liebenstein , but without notes or indications of melodies.
Numerous musicians and composers have visited Bad Liebenstein over the decades and centuries, including Clara Wieck , who gave a concert here in 1840, Carl Loewe , who performed his latest ballads in 1846 at Altenstein Castle to the English Queen Mother Adelheid , and Anton Rubinstein , who gave a concert in 1869 , as well as Hans von Bulow , Johannes Brahms and Max Reger . The GDR composer Günter Kochan stayed in Bad Liebenstein for a cure in 1954 and completed his piano trio op. 4 here.
In the second half of the 19th century there was even a string quartet that bore the name Liebensteiner Burgquartett and in which Christian Mühlfeld, brother of the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld , played.
The Meininger Hofkapelle accompanied opera and operetta performances in the Comödienhaus . The Meininger Hofhautboisten were responsible for the bath music.
In 1857 the singer wreath male choral society was founded. In the 1970s, the double quartet (which actually consists of nine singers) was formed by members of the association. This has already had several appearances on radio and television and also started a small tour of America. About as old as the double quartet is the women's singing group, which often performs under the name Die Alten von der Burg .
Bad Liebenstein has had its own spa orchestra since the 20th century . After the political change, however, the orchestra disintegrated for financial reasons, since then a small group of musicians has only had a few performances a month. The owners of Villa Georg (which calls itself a café and culture island) are trying to revive the musical tradition. There are regular performances by the live band Little Birdland , the Reflection Orchestra and the Arts and Culture Association .
literature
The novella Das Mädchen von Liebenstein by Friedrich von Bodenstedt , published in 1869, takes place in Bad Liebenstein and the surrounding area .
"[...] I've always heard people talk about Liebenstein as one of the loveliest bathing spots in Thuringia, and I found everything far more beautiful than I expected. This pure, healthy air, these groups of trees, this fresh, lush greenery, these wooded, gracefully curved mountains and heights all around, these manifold gradations and distant views - [...]"
Ludwig Bechstein collected and published local legends.
Sports
The largest sports club in the city is SV Medizin Bad Liebenstein . The club is divided into the departments of judo, volleyball, tennis, table tennis and rehabilitation sports. In addition, marksmen are active in Bad Liebenstein.
The sporting highlight is the Otto-Scharfenberg-Memorial-Tournament of the volleyball department of the SV Medizin Bad Liebenstein for active and non -active people , which takes place every year on the last weekend before the Thuringian summer holidays .
Motorsports
The Glasbach race has been held on the winding section of the L 1027 up to the Rennsteig since 1973 .
Until 1990, the motorsport event took place as a mixed mountain race under the umbrella of the ADMV . After the race in 1991, the event was discontinued under the auspices of the ADAC due to a lack of safety equipment. In 2011, after extensive modernization work, this tradition was continued by the Rennsportgemeinschaft Altensteiner Oberland e. V. in the ADAC, for the first time from 2.-4. September, revived on a first section of the original race track and is to take place every year from now on.
Economy and Infrastructure
The most important economic factor in the city is tourism and rehabilitation in the three clinics. According to the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, 347,292 overnight stays were counted in Bad Liebenstein in 2008. This is the fifth place in the Free State of Thuringia after the two major cities of Erfurt and Weimar and the holiday strongholds of Oberhof and Friedrichroda .
Medical institutions
There were once three hospitals: House II on Bahnhofstrasse, built as a state eye sanatorium with endowment funds from Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen and other donations and operated under the direction of Count Wiser , whose successor was Dr. medical Koch took over. It was one of the world's leading ophthalmic institutions . During the Second World War the house was a military hospital , then it was converted into a hospital and used as a polyclinic . Modernized after 1990, it received a new laboratory extension and new operating rooms. With the new construction of the Bad Salzungen Clinic, the building was abandoned and is now empty. House I, located in the heart of the spa town on Herzog-Georg-Straße, is now used as a retirement home for assisted living after conversion and modernization.
In neighboring Schweina is the former House III, which emerged from the Marienthal State Hospital and is now used to treat addicts. After the formation of the district of Bad Salzungen, the three houses bore the name district hospital Bad Liebenstein , since in Bad Salzungen only the small hospital Dr. Sulzberger was available. With the development of capacities in Bad Salzungen, the district health facilities (KGE) Bad Salzungen emerged from all houses . The legal successor to KGE is the Klinikum Bad Salzungen .
The Kurhaus was occupied by the Volksheilbad with inpatients and, after being vacant for about ten years, was returned to its original use as a hotel in 2006.
Bad Liebenstein is the largest rehabilitation center in Thuringia. The largest employers are the three rehabilitation clinics:
- m&i specialist clinic in Bad Liebenstein with specialist departments for orthopaedics / traumatology , cardiology / internal medicine and neurology / neuropsychology .
- Heinrich Mann Clinic with specialist departments for neurology and orthopedics.
- Kurparkklinik Dr. Lauterbach with specialist departments for cardiology and orthopedics as well as sports medicine .
In May 2009, the new building for the spa center was handed over. The house, which has the shape of a lying eight, now bears the name Kurhaus Bad Liebenstein . In addition to a sauna , a salt grotto and a therapy pool, great importance is attached to wellness , with the Liebenstein medicinal water being administered. Medical care is provided by several medical practices (including a medical care center ), which are located in the old spa house opposite. A transition to the neighboring Hotel Kaiserhof, a so-called bathrobe corridor, is currently planned.
Established businesses
The first Thuringian biscuit factory was founded in 1902 by Richard Bohlig. After expropriation and continued operation as a publicly owned biscuit factory in Bad Liebenstein until 1990, the factory was initially taken over by Bahlsen , shut down until 1998 and finally demolished by the city. There is now a public car park on the site. The factory building on Marienthaler Weg was used industrially until 2011 for the assembly of cable harnesses .
Until around 1990, there was a state-owned fluorescent factory in the center of town , which, among other things, also produced cadmium -based color pigments . The water-insoluble cadmium salts were disposed of in the Grumbach, which led to soil contamination . A soil analysis from 1998 therefore found a relatively high level of heavy metal pollution in the area. The State Environment Agency in Suhl therefore recommends making sure that playing children do not swallow any soil material, especially in gardens that are in the immediate vicinity of the former fluorescent plant, and that special measures are taken when cultivating useful plants. The site itself has been decontaminated since 2000. There the new city park was created on the Grumbachaue.
In 1923, a factory for hair clippers "Billmann & Theunissen" was founded in Eisenbahnstrasse.
Until 1991 there was a metal goods factory in the town center on Puschkinstrasse, formerly called Fahrradteile Christian Luther . Bicycle parts were mainly manufactured, such as bells, bicycle stands, etc. The factory building was demolished with the construction of the m&i specialist clinic in Bad Liebenstein . Since then there have been no more industrial companies in Bad Liebenstein.
However, there are a few handicraft businesses in metal, wood and plastics processing, smaller construction and transport companies and service companies in the field of telecommunications and security technology.
media
Since 1890, the daily newspaper Der Stammgast has been published in Bad Liebenstein by the Kaffenberger publishing house on Bahnhofstrasse. In 1944 publication had to be stopped due to a shortage of paper. Officially, the newspaper was merged with another one and could not be revived even in the GDR era. Since 1990, Der Neue Stammgast has been published as a newsletter and publication for the town of Bad Liebenstein and the two municipalities of Schweina and Steinbach, printed and published in Ilmenau . Daily newspapers widely distributed in the region today are Freies Wort and Südthüringer Zeitung , both with a joint local editorial office in Bad Salzungen.
All television viewers with a cable connection in the city area receive the so-called Bad Liebenstein television , which briefly changes text and picture panels with information and advertising in an endless loop.
Public facilities
In addition to the city and spa library, the city administration maintains the tourist office in the foyer in the historic spa district. The Kurtheater is managed by the Förderverein Kurtheater Bad Liebenstein e. V. and is the only such venue in the Wartburg district. After the opening of the new spa house in 2009, there is again a possibility to relax with a small swimming pool.
The town hall in the center is closed today due to dilapidation. In addition to the lack of drainage of the outer walls in contact with the ground, the main cause is the flat roof, through which moisture penetrates, since its maintenance has been neglected since 1990. In addition to modern stage technology, the large hall has a segmented lifting platform, a restaurant with bar and terrace, a bowling alley with gastronomy, several administration and club rooms and space for a youth club. At the city council meeting on September 1, 2009, it was unanimously decided to set up a working group consisting of the mayor, one member each of the parliamentary groups and knowledgeable citizens, in order to propose a solution to the problem surrounding what was once a district culture center by the end of the first quarter of 2010 at the latest to develop built buildings. In 2010, the city council unanimously decided to demolish the town hall and re-plan the entire site. In 2012, a private investor's plans to demolish the town hall and erect a one-storey purpose-built building for a discount market center became public. However, due to significant deficiencies in the proposed development plan and massive public resistance through a citizens' initiative, the investor withdrew his project. In 2013, some members of the then action alliance successfully stood in the local elections. Since the spring of 2014, a new citizens' initiative has been fighting to keep the former cultural center in the hands of the city and to use it as a barrier-free cultural and administrative center in the future.
education
After the introduction of the West German education system, the Rudolf Schwarz Polytechnic School was dissolved and the Ludwig Bechstein State Elementary School and the Herzog Georg State Gymnasium established. Due to the declining number of students, the Herzog-Georg-Gymnasium merged with the Dr.-Sulzberger-Gymnasium at the beginning of the 2007/2008 school year to form the State Dr.-Sulzberger-Gymnasium Bad Salzungen with its sole seat in Bad Salzungen . This is the third time that the town of Bad Liebenstein has lost its higher educational institution (“country recreation center and higher educational institution for boys” around 1920) and the extended secondary school (until 1980). The "Altensteiner Oberland" regular school, the largest regular school in the Wartburg district, is now located in the grammar school building. The medical school for the training of nurses , physiotherapists and masseurs , which is also located in the town , was relocated to Bad Salzungen in 1993. The only vocational school that remains is the TÜV-Akademie Altenstein, which emerged from the Altenstein School of Agricultural Engineering . Courses are currently being offered there to improve safety at work or qualifications in this area, as well as training and further education for health and social professions.
traffic
Bad Liebenstein can be reached via the federal autobahn 4 , exits Waltershausen or Wutha-Farnroda and the federal highways 19 and 62 both to Barchfeld. The bypass road on the former railway line, today's Tréon-Straße, takes traffic from the Barchfeld junction to the Rennsteig past the city; it only has to pass through the center in the direction of Trusetal. A bypass past Meimers, which has been planned for years, is not considered a priority after the B 19 has been expanded. The inner-city parking situation at weekends is currently problematic. During this time there are many visitors of the patients of the rehabilitation clinics. The city administration is working on a traffic control system.
There are regular bus connections from the Wartburgmobil transport company from Bad Liebenstein to Bad Salzungen (via the Immelborn train station ), Eisenach (to the train station there ), Brotterode (with a connection to the Kleiner Inselsberg ). City lines 41-43 connect the core town of Bad Liebenstein several times a day with the districts of Meimers, Bairoda, Steinbach, Altenstein and Schweina.
The Immelborn–Steinbach railway , a branch of the Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway (Werrabahn), was used for passenger transport from 1889 to 1968 and was used to transport spa guests. There was a daily express train from Bad Liebenstein station to Leipzig and Zwickau .
Bad Liebenstein is on the main route of the " Princes' Road of the Wettins ", a themed road in Central Germany that is currently under construction .
personalities
In the long tradition as a health resort, there were many famous personalities who combined relaxation and work here: Bernhard von Bülow , Conradi-Horster , Ida Dehmel , Friedrich Fröbel , Adolph Diesterweg , Ernst Haeckel , Gerhart Hauptmann , Friedrich Hoffmann , Henrik Ibsen , Harry Graf Kessler , August von Kotzebue , Franz von Lenbach , Franz Liszt , Jean Paul , Max Reger , Joseph Meyer , Fritz Reuter , Ludwig Richter , Anton Rubinstein , Albert Schweitzer , Inge von Wangenheim , Charlotte von Stein and Walter Ulbricht .
Jean Paul "modeled" in Dr. Katzenberger's bathing trip modeled his spa town on Liebenstein.
honorary citizen
- Albert Briel (1898–1997), Swiss citizen and local hotelier – honorary citizen 1991
- Friedrich Heinrichs (1882-1947), former mayor - not a registered honorary citizen
- Max Heinze – Data are missing
- Heinrich Kaiser (1845–1922), former mayor – date of honorary citizenship unknown
- Fritz Lauterbach (1877–1951), chemist and board member of Bad Liebenstein Aktiengesellschaft – honorary citizen 1937.
- Rudolf Obmann (1893-1976), dentist - not a registered honorary citizen
- Irmgard Schäfer (1928-2007), former mayor - honorary citizen 1988.
- Otto Schieck (1898–1980), communist – honorary citizen 1973
- Maximilian Graf von Wiser (1861–1938), ophthalmologist – honorary citizen 1926
sons and daughters of the town
- Heinrich Hess (1844-1927), civil servant, local historian and politician
- Helmut Holzer (1912–1996), computer and rocket pioneer
- Henry Lesser (born 1963), footballer
- Maik Nothnagel (born 1966), politician
More personalities
- Friedrich Fröbel , lived in the city from 1849 to 1852. He was visited several times by Adolph Diesterweg .
- In the 1830s, the Meiningen court painter Carl Wagner created five paintings with motifs from Bad Liebenstein, Altenstein Castle and Park , and Glücksbrunn
- Karl Bucher (national economist) owned a summer apartment in the city. His students built a monument to him here.
- Friedrich Mosengeil , Ludwig Bechstein and August Trinius were often out and about here .
- The Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen stayed in Bad Liebenstein with their guests in the summer. Special mention should be made of: Adelheid von England , Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann as well as Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau .
- The later world-famous Josef Kainz had his first appearance in the Kurtheater Bad Liebenstein under the eyes of Duke Georg II.
- George II married Ellen Franz here .
- Julius Heinrich Gottlieb Schlegel was a spa doctor in Liebenstein from 1824 to 1839.
- Today the caricaturist Ralf Böhme lives here .
- The contemporary writer Kerstin Jentzsch has also settled in Bad Liebenstein.
- Lorenz Lochthofen spent the last years of his life in Bad Liebenstein .
literature
- Friedrich Mosengeil : Bad Liebenstein and its surroundings. 1815
- Ludwig Bechstein : Liebenstein and Altenstein - A tourist guide. 1842. (Reprint: Elch-Verlag, 2003)
- Erdmann Schwarz: Back then - Liebensteiner sketches. 1913. (Reprint: Elch-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-933566-11-8 )
- Carl Knecht: Bad Liebenstein. Its healing springs, their effects and application. Kaffenberger, Bad Liebenstein 1922.
- Walter Börner: Small chronicle of the bath. German Cultural Association, Working Group for Friends of Nature and Homeland, 1956.
- Ernst Kaiser: Bad Liebenstein - The heart spa of the German Democratic Republic. Publisher Forkel, Poessneck 1959.
- Harry Gerlach: Bad Liebenstein. Urania Verlag, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-332-00307-0 .
- Bertram Lucke: The three summer residences of Duke George II of Saxe-Meiningen in Bad Liebenstein and on the Altenstein. Education and knowledge publishing house, Bad Homburg/ Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-927879-58-4 .
- Silvia Malsch: Bad Liebenstein - a travel guide. Altensteiner Verlag, Bad Liebenstein 2005, ISBN 3-935795-99-8 .
- Conny Langenhan: On the history of the spa and baths in the GDR. The example of Bad Liebenstein. Inaugural Dissertation . Inst. History and Ethics of Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , 2014.
- Christian Storch: From the comedy house to the spa theater. The theater in Bad Liebenstein from 1800 to today . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-21101-1 .
- The Liebensteiner Brunnenschrift from 1610, translated from Early New High German into a contemporary form by Ida Henkel and Lydia Herrmann. Heinrich-Jung-Verlagsgesellschaft Zella-Mehlis/Thuringia 2016, ISBN 978-3-943552-13-3 .
web links
- Website of the town of Bad Liebenstein
- Link catalog on the subject of Bad Liebenstein at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Website of the Friends of Nature and Homeland e. V. Bad Liebenstein
itemizations
- ↑ Thuringian State Office for Statistics statistic.thueringen.de
- ↑ Text by Udo Rommel from Bad Liebenstein, Ein Reise(ver)führer , see Literature
- ↑ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: Wartburg district district office, lower nature conservation authority (ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburg district . Issue 8. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , p. 90-98 .
- ↑ Bioclimatic report for Bad Liebenstein from the Meteorological Service of the GDR, FI for Bioclimatology Berlin-Buch, October 29, 1968.
- ↑ Description of the castle on the website of Natur- und Heimatfreunde Bad Liebenstein
- ↑ Friedrich Mosengeil: Bad Liebenstein and its surroundings at archive.org ( chemical investigation p. 99 )
- ↑ Description of the cold water sanatorium on the website of Natur- und Heimatfreunde Bad Liebenstein
- ↑ Years from: Walter Börner: Small chronicle of the bath , see literature
- ↑ Günter Gerstmann: "I interrogate breath and sound..." - Gerhart Hauptmann and Bad Liebenstein . In: City Time . June issue. MFB publishing group, Eisenach 2000, p. 27-28 .
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- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Anti-Fascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933-1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 315.
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- ↑ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution of the municipality of Meimers and its incorporation into the municipality of Bad Liebenstein of July 1, 1993 (GVBl. p. 486)
- ↑ Liebenstein back to the source. (No longer available online.) Freie Wort February 3, 2010 Archived from the original on August 15, 2010 ; retrieved October 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Oberland contract signed . insuedthueringen.de; accessed November 4, 2011.
- ↑ Citizens say yes to "Herzog-Georg-Carree. In southern Thuringia, December 7, 2015, retrieved on December 7, 2015 .
- ↑ from 1960: December 31; Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
- ↑ Lexicon of cities and coats of arms of the GDR from 1984
- ↑ Thuringian State Office for Statistics - State Returning Officer
- ↑ Wahlen.thueringen.de retrieved on February 7, 2013.
- ↑ http://heimatfreundebali.jimdo.com/ortschronik/b%C3%BCrgermeister/ ( memento from October 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Town twinning association Melsungen e. V. ( Memento of November 13, 2011 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ heimatfreundebali.jimdo.com
- ^ "Inventing Kindergarten" .
- ↑ Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. nature and landscape . In: Wartburg district (ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburg district . tape 7 . Druck und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .
- ↑ Johann Matthäus Bechstein: Songs to increase social joys especially in the bath in love stone . Hartmann, Meiningen 1802.
- ↑ Friedrich von Bodenstedt : The girl from love stone . In: The Gazebo . Issue 18, 19, 1869, p. 273–276, 289–292 ( full text [ wikisource ]).
- ↑ The circle of legends of Liebenstein and Altenstein . In: The treasure of legends and the sagas of Thuringia , edited by Ludwig Bechstein, Part 4: The sagas of the Kiffhäuser and the Gülden Aue, the Werragrund and of Liebenstein and Altenstein . Publisher of the Kesselringsche Hofbuchhandlung, Meiningen and Hildburghausen 1838, pp. 153-202.
- ↑ Website of the Otto Scharfenberg tournament
- ↑ www44.jimdo.com
- ↑ Charlotte of Prussia (1860–1919)
- ↑ Soil analysis of allotment gardens in Bad Liebenstein with regard to their cadmium content on behalf of the Thuringian State Institute for Agriculture 1998.
- ↑ New working group should fix it , in: Südthüringer Zeitung of September 2, 2009.
- ↑ City council agrees to demolition of Stadthalle , in: Freie Wort of March 11, 2010.
- ↑ Development plan 1/10 "Bad Liebenstein town center" ( memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ On March 10, 2013, the elections for the mayoral office and the city council will take place. ( Memento of August 8, 2014 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ We did it! — The work assignment of August 2, 2014 . ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Citizens' initiative for the rescue of the Kulturhaus
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- ↑ bad-liebenstein.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
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- ↑ U. Weilbach: Interview (with Kerstin Jentzsch) . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district. April issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2001, p. 4-7 .
Districts: Bad Liebenstein | Schweina | Steinbach | Bairoda | Meimers
Settlements: Altenstein | Atterode | Glücksbrunn | Glücksbrunner Works | Marienthal | Professional | Raboldsgrube | Worry | Wolfsberg
