Bad Blankenburg
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ N , 11 ° 16 ′ E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Saalfeld-Rudolstadt | |
| Height : | 220 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 35.62 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 6334 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 178 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 07422 | |
| Area code : | 036741 | |
| License plate : | SLF, RU | |
| Community key : | 16 0 73 005 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BBA | |
| City structure: | 8 districts | |
City administration address : |
Markt 1 07422 Bad Blankenburg |
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| Mayor : | Mike George (Free Voters) | |
| Location of the city of Bad Blankenburg in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district | ||
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Bad Blankenburg (until 1911 Blankenburg ) is a small town in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia , which is located on the Thuringian Porcelain Route. It was a state-approved climatic health resort until 2007 and describes itself as the lavender city .
The city has almost 7000 inhabitants and an area of 35.56 km².
geography
In Bad Blankenburg the channel flows into the Schwarza .
City structure
Bad Blankenburg has eight districts (first documented mention):
- Böhlplatten (1361), 90 inhabitants
- Cordobang (1071), 102 inhabitants, 410 m above sea level NN
- Fröbitz (1375), 72 inhabitants, 380 m above sea level. NN
- Großgölitz (1362), 90 inhabitants
- Kleingölitz (1362), 96 inhabitants
- Oberwirbach (1286), 120 inhabitants
- Watzdorf (1261), 169 inhabitants
- Zeigerheim (1350), 148 inhabitants
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are Bechstedt , the city of Königsee , the city of Rudolstadt , Saalfeld / Saale and Schwarzburg .
history
Blankenburg was first mentioned in 1267 in a foundation letter from the Saalfeld nunnery. The construction of the town church began in 1385 and after a fire it was continued so that the inauguration could take place in 1794. The place goes back to Greifenstein Castle, which was once also called Blankenburg , under which the settlement was formed as a Burgweiler named after the castle and was first mentioned in a document in 1267. The town charter has been documented since 1323. In 1744 there was a serious fire in the city, which destroyed almost all buildings in the city. In 1840 Friedrich Froebel founded the first kindergarten in Germany in Blankenburg . In the same year, the spa operation began in the village, through which Blankenburg was awarded the title of bath by the then princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1911 . Until 1918 the place belonged to the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Watzdorf was incorporated.
During the GDR times, the former “Schwarzeck” hotel was converted and operated into a party school for the SED , but after 1990 it was abandoned to decay.
On June 19, 1992 Böhlplatten and Zeigerheim were incorporated, Gölitz and Oberwirbach followed on March 23, 1993 and Cordobang on March 8, 1994.
Population development
Development of the population (from 1960 December 31) :
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- Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
City council
After the 2019 city council election, the distribution of the 20 seats compared to the 2014 election was as follows:
| FWG | 8 seats (+4) |
| CDU | 7 seats (± 0) |
| The left | 5 seats (−3) |
| SPD | 0 seats (−1) |
coat of arms
Blazon : "In green, an upright, looking golden lion with a red tongue and armor."
Town twinning
Since 1990 there has been a town partnership with the north Hessian town of Hofgeismar . In 2013, a partnership with Tarnów Opolski ( Opole district , partner district of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district) was agreed.
Culture and sights
Local attractions include next to the castle Greifenstein the home of Friedrich Froebel , who in Bad Blankenburg in 1840 the first kindergarten established the world by his educational concept and led, as well as the annual Lavender Festival.
Two kilometers south-south-west of the city center is the Hünenkuppe ramparts to the right of the Schwarza , protected by the adjacent steep slopes. It is probably a fortification from the Younger Bronze Age or the Early Iron Age . The unsettled location suggests a cult location. But it is also associated with the gold finds in the Schwarza at that time.
From 1926 onwards, Bad Blankenburg was the meeting place for the representative convention (VC) of the academic gymnastics associations , an association of student associations . In Bad Blankenburg, the VC built a sports facility for the gymnastics festivals, which today houses the Thuringian state sports school. The members of the VC also built the town hall and restored the tower at Greifenstein Castle.
Today the Greifenstein Conference of the Coburg Convent (CC) takes place in Bad Blankenburg every autumn .
A memorial stone on the grounds of the Evangelical Church Anna-Luisen-Stift has been commemorating the more than 200 handicapped children who were tortured and ultimately killed there from the 1920s to the 1940s since 2001. 54 of them were taken to the Thuringian state sanatorium in Stadtroda in 1941, of which 24 did not return because they were most likely victims of the T4 euthanasia program .
On the Mount of Olives (in often so-called residential village ) of 1985 was for the victims of the death march of prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp who passed the site in April 1945, a memorial stone erected.
The Eisenach – Budapest hiking trail runs through Bad Blankenburg .
So far, Gunter Demnig has only laid one stumbling block in the city.
traffic
The Bad Blankenburg (Thüringerw) station is located at the existing since 1895 railway Arnstadt-Saalfeld . In addition, the federal highway 88 ( Ilmenau - Naumburg ) runs through the town.
From 1874 to 2000 the Rudolstadt-Schwarza-Bad Blankenburg railway was also operated.
economy
The cities of Bad Blankenburg, Rudolstadt and Saalfeld / Saale have been working together as the city triangle on the Saalebogen since 1997 and began a discussion about a possible stronger union. One result is u. a. the amalgamation of the business development to a regional business development agency in July 2007.
media
In the media sector, publishers and larger printing companies are represented in the city. Bad Blankenburg belongs to the circulation area of the Ostthüringer Zeitung (OTZ) and is supplied in the area of electronic media in addition to the general public and private offers of Thuringia by the SRB , the regional citizen media broadcaster .
Electrical and electronics industry
In Bad Blankenburg there were two manufacturers of antenna technology : Blankom Antennentechnik GmbH and Antennentechnik Bad Blankenburg AG . Both are successor companies of the VEB Antennenwerke Bad Blankenburg . Blankom was dissolved due to bankruptcy on January 31, 2017. ABB relocated its headquarters to Weimar.
The city has been a location for electrical and radio manufacturers since the first half of the 20th century . In 1919 Hermann Pawlik - Electrotechnical Factory Heliogen was established in Bad Blankenburg . One of their products was detector receivers . In 1946, after liquidation, the company was converted into a Soviet stock corporation (SAG) before it became the VEB Fernmeldewerk Bad Blankenburg in 1950. From 1961 the company produced under the name VEB Antennenwerke Bad Blankenburg .
In 1930 Franz Baumgartner (eFBe) founded a company for heating pads and electrical devices. In 1952 the assets were confiscated in the GDR. This resulted in VEB (K) Elektro-Heiz-Geräte , later enlarged and renamed as VEB (B) Elektrogeräte- und Armaturenwerk Bad Blankenburg . In 1978 the company was assigned to the VEB Elektrogerätewerk Suhl combine and the products were also exported abroad under the brand name AKA electric . Two years after German reunification, VEB Elektrogeräte Bad Blankenburg was incorporated into a GmbH on May 21, 1992 and the Treuhandanstalt as a partner. The company then traded as Efbe Elektrogeräte GmbH. On January 1, 1993, the company was privatized and Bernd Heinze took over the company and acquired the production facilities and tools from the bankrupt Schott Elektrogeräte GmbH from Groß Ippener and began again with the production of electrical products under the brands efbe-Schott , Maybaum and Kalorik . Efbe GmbH with its subsidiary Efbe Elektrogeräte belong to the Team Kalorik Group NV, based in Sint-Genesius-Rode (Belgium).
Others
Bad Blankenburg is the seat of the German Evangelical Alliance , an association of Evangelical and above all Evangelical -minded Christians from various communities and groups. The Bad Blankenburg Alliance Conferences will take place in the conference hall of the German Evangelical Alliance in Bad Blankenburg (2019 the 124th).
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ^ A b Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 2nd, improved edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2001, ISBN 3-934748-58-9 , pp. 11-67.
- ^ History (of the city of Bad Blankenburg). City of Blankenburg, 2012, accessed on June 13, 2018 : “It can be assumed that the settlement on Rinne and Schwarza existed decades earlier. In a feudal letter from 1323, Blankenburg then appeared as a city. "
- ↑ Lieselotte Swietek, Wolfgang Swietek: Stadtkirchen in Thüringen (= Small Thuringia Library. Vol. 31). Verlagshaus Thuringia, Erfurt 1993, ISBN 3-86087-023-8 , pp. 22-23.
- ↑ ordinance of the Thuringian interior minister Schuster of 1 February 1993: "Thuringian Ordinance on the resolution of the communities Gölitz and Oberwirbach and their integration into the community of Bad Blankenburg" GVBl. 1993, p. 220 f. (Digitized here ).
- ↑ City council election Bad Blankenburg 2019. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ municipal elections Bad Blankenburg 2014. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
- ^ Website Bad Blankenburg - Sister Cities , accessed on April 9, 2018
- ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 185.
- ↑ University Political Office of the VC (Ed.): Association of Turnerschaften at German Universities. Self-published by VC, Charlottenburg 1926, p. 3 ff.
- ↑ Erich Müller (Ed.): Turnerschafterbuch. Publishing house of the Turnerschafterbuches, Mainz 1933, p. 277 f.
- ↑ Holger Spierig: "Lord, forgive us our debts". Church nursing home in Bad Blankenburg deals with the dark parts of its history. In: Faith + Home . 37, of September 15, 2002, p. 3.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 232.
- ^ Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar, correspondence in the Ministry of Economics and Labor of the State of Thuringia. 1924 to 1959. Company registers, SAG companies, reparations.
- ^ Publications on the company website of Antennentechnik Bad Blankenburg GmbH ( Memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ The program for the 124th Bad Blankenburg Alliance Conference The Evangelical Alliance in Germany Believe together, act together . July 31 - August 04, 2019. , PDF (accessed December 26, 2019).
Web links
- Homepage of Bad Blankenburg
- Official homepage of the city association "Städtedreieck am Saalebogen"
- Friedrich Froebel Museum Bad Blankenburg
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