Bad Eilsen

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Schaumburg
Joint municipality :	Eilsen
Height :	133 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.46 km 2
Residents:	2563 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1042 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31707
Area code :	05722
License plate :	SHG, RI
Community key :	03 2 57 005
Address of the municipal administration:	Bückeburger Strasse 2 31707 Bad Eilsen
Website :	www.bad-eilsen.de
Mayor :	Christel Bergmann ( SPD )
Location of the community Bad Eilsen in the district of Schaumburg

Bad Eilsen is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony ( Germany ), near the city of Bückeburg on the Autobahn 2 . The municipality is the administrative seat of the integrated municipality Eilsen .

geography

Bad Eilsen is located between the Harrl ridge and the Bückeberg Mountains , as well as north of the Weser Mountains and between the neighboring towns of Bückeburg, Rinteln and Obernkirchen . The state border with North Rhine-Westphalia lies in the southwest of the integrated municipality of Eilsen . The Bückeburger Aue flows through the place.

history

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The area around Bad Eilsen was already settled in Roman times and its healing springs were known and used early on. The small village on the Harrl was still known as Eildissum in the 12th century and changed its name to Eilsen in the 13th and Eilzen in the 19th century.

For many centuries the residents have used their “stink springs”, which are among the best sulfur springs in Europe, to alleviate gout, rheumatism and skin diseases. According to an old folk tale, the sources owe their origin to a meteorite that struck long ago where Bad Eilsen is today. Even today you can clearly see the valley in which Bad Eilsen is located from the surrounding hills and draw conclusions about the size and force of the meteorite. According to the legend, exactly at the time when the meteorite struck there, the devil was standing at the place where the Kurpark is today and was pushed into the ground by the rock. But the devil came out again and cursed the place. In the west, finally, dark and cold, the dead Haarl rises, which is also called "the forest where people go to die", which also protects the place from the last rays of sunshine of each day. Because of the myth and the geographical obviousness of the history, Bad Eilsen is still a place of pilgrimage for occult associations that meet once a year in Bad Eilsen and worship the devil there.

In 1794, Countess Juliane zu Schaumburg-Lippe made the decision to turn Eilsen into a spa, in the following years she bought 23 acres of land in the source area from the farmers and had the springs collected. After her untimely death in 1799, her successor continued to develop the town into a spa, so that the opening of the spa can be assumed around 1802. In the following years, the bathing and lodging facilities were continuously expanded. In the 19th century, Bad Eilsen developed into a fashion spa that enjoyed great popularity. The quality of the springs and the healing successes could keep up with those of the nearby and simultaneously up-and-coming Bad Nenndorf . Just like there, the spa stay was made more attractive by a casino . The licensed game, relocated from Bückeburg in 1808 , brought the government 500 Reichstaler annually. A thaler was set as the minimum stake for Pharo and Rouge et noir ; for roulette it should be 24 Kreuzer Rhenish. As early as 1810, 800 Reichstaler were offered for the concession. At the same time, low folk were also excluded from the game. In December 1848, the state estates applied for the casino to be closed. In 1849 the prince complied with the closing order of the Paulskirche assembly.

The construction of the Hanover-Bückeburg-Minden railway line brought a new growth spurt for the town in the middle of the 19th century. The Idaturm was built in Harrl as early as 1848 , as a job creation in economically difficult times, as a land surveying tower and hiking destination for bathers. The small but fine health resort also had prominent guests such as Franz Liszt , Clara Wieck , Hermann Löns , Richard Tauber and Gerhart Hauptmann .

Fürstenhof at the spa gardens

After the war, progress continued in 1918 with the opening of the " Fürstenhof ", one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels of its time, and Bad Eilsen got its own train station and thus a direct connection to the Hanover-Minden line through the Bückeburg - Bad Eilsen small railway, the so-called "Eilser Minchen" . This railway line no longer exists. The Rinteln - Stadthagen small railway running through Bad Eilsen is now a museum railway. In 1934 the World Economic Conference took place in Bad Eilsen, and in 1939 it was connected to the Reichsautobahn . Even after the First World War, the Bad Eilsen spa facilities were still in the possession of the "House of Schaumburg-Lippe", most recently in the possession of Adolf II von Schaumburg-Lippe (the last of the family who was legally allowed to call himself "Prince") his death then in the possession of his eldest brother Ernst Wolrad Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe . The descendants of Ernst Wolrad always claim that in 1941 Hermann Göring confiscated Bad Eilsen for the Bremen company Focke-Wulf , which from then on had aircraft constructed here for the Air Force. Against a confiscation and in favor of an amicable procedure, however, speaks that a rental to Focke Wulff can be documented, that Ernst Wolrad stated rental income in the 1945 tax return and that there is no documentary evidence of the confiscation.

In 1945 the British occupation forces moved in and made the bath the headquarters of the Royal Air Force ; this did not release the bath until 1955, it fell back into the possession of Ernst Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe. In 1957 he sold the bath with all bathing facilities, the large hotels in the spa district and the spa park to the state insurance companies in Berlin and Hanover. It was not until 1959 that the pool could be reopened. In 1961, the “Health Clinic for Internal and Orthopedic Diseases of the Hanover State Insurance Institute” was established. The LVA Hannover became the sole owner of the pool in 1961. In 1971 Bad Eilsen was recognized as a "State Spa".

religion

The church in Bad Eilsen

• Bad Eilsen has only been forming its own Evangelical-Lutheran parish within the Schaumburg-Lippische Landeskirche since November 1st, 1954, together with Heeßen . Before that, both parishes belonged to the parish of Obernkirchen and thus to the Hanover regional church . An emergency church was consecrated in 1948 and served as a branch church of Obernkirchen. In 1959, the Christ Church was built according to plans by the architect Hachtmann from Celle .
• There is also a New Apostolic congregation in Bad Eilsen with the church built in 1988/89 and a Free Evangelical congregation .
• The Catholic Church of St. Johannes Evangelist was built in 1963 and belonged to the parish of St. Marien in Bückeburg. In 2010 it was profaned . Today the nearest Catholic churches are 4 km away in Bückeburg and Obernkirchen .

politics

Bad Eilsen spa gardens

The council of the community consists of 13 councilors.

• SPD - 7 seats
• CDU - 6 seats

(Status: municipal elections in Lower Saxony 2016 )

Mayor is Christel Bergmann (SPD)

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In red between two silver (white) deciduous trees, six silver (white) columns with architraves , in front of which a silver (white) fountain rises from a golden (yellow) basin; above a silver (white) nettle leaf, covered with a red rose with a golden (yellow) calyx and green leaf tips. "
	Foundation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms awarded in 1950 is based on a coat of arms from 1930, which Otto Hupp designed. The trees symbolize the wooded area. The pool with the hot spring and the pillars indicate that Bad Eilsen is a sulfur spa; the nettle leaf reminds of the former affiliation to the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe .

Culture and sights

In addition to the preserved historical architecture, the spa facilities, the spa park with the rosarium and old trees, especially beautiful large avenues, and the nearby Weser Uplands are worth seeing .

See also : The list of architectural monuments in Bad Eilsen

Museums

• Local museum

Regular events

• Farmers market in May and October
• Mallorca party in the Kurpark in July
• Music evening with fireworks in the spa gardens in September
• Christmas market around the Eilser Christ Church on the Saturday before the 1st Advent

Economy and Infrastructure

As a health resort, Bad Eilsen lives mainly from tourism and from the Lower Saxony Tax Academy (since August 1, 2006), in which specialist theoretical training in the middle service of Lower Saxony's financial administration (senior service at the Rinteln location) as well as central training events for the employees of the Lower Saxony tax offices are carried out .

Bad Eilsen is on the Rinteln – Stadthagen railway line ; regular passenger traffic on this route has been discontinued since 1966. The next passenger stations are now Bückeburg station on the Hanover – Minden railway line and Rinteln station on the Elze – Löhne railway line . The Bad Eilsener Kleinbahn used to connect Bad Eilsen with Bückeburg.

The federal motorway 2 Oberhausen - Berlin with the junction Bad Eilsen and the federal road 83 Bückeburg - Bebra run south of the community .

Personalities

• Friedrich Heinrich Rinne (1852–1924), surgeon
• Arno Roßlau (* 1948), medical officer, resident in Heeßen
• Ingo Günther (* 1957), media artist

Web links

Commons : Bad Eilsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Bad Eilsen  - travel guide

• the official website of Bad Eilsen
• Link to the book "Four Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and the Parallel System of Injustices" by Alexander Vom Hofe (pdf)
• Plan of the Eilsen sulfur bath from 1830

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ NLA Bückeburg L 102a No. 2292/6, proof of rental
3. ↑ Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg Lippe , p. 144 u. 145
4. ↑ www.samtgemeinde-eilsen.de: Bad Eilsen: Announcement of the election results (PDF; 6.1 kB), accessed on October 24, 2018
5. ^ Website of the joint municipality of Eilsen
6. ↑ Stadler, Klemens, Deutsche Wappen, Volume 5, Bremen 1970, p. 18
7. ^ Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen Volume 11: Lower Saxony 3 South of the Mittelland Canal. EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 , page 40