Bad Emstal

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	kassel
Height :	334 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.67 km 2
Residents:	5926 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	153 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34308
Primaries :	05624, 05625
License plate :	KS, HOG, WOH
Community key :	06 6 33 006
Address of the municipal administration:	Kasseler Strasse 57 34308 Bad Emstal
Website :	Bad-Emstal.de
Mayor :	Stefan Frankfurth ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Bad Emstal in the Kassel district

Bad Emstal is a municipality in the Kassel district in Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Bad Emstal is located about 20 km southwest of Kassel in the southern part of the Habichtswald Nature Park in the Ems valley .

Neighboring communities

Bad Emstal borders the city of Wolfhagen in the north, the community of Schauenburg (both in the Kassel district) and the city of Niedenstein in the east, the city of Fritzlar in the south (both in the Schwalm-Eder district ) and the city of Naumburg in the west (District of Kassel).

structure

The community consists of the districts

• Balhorn
• Merxhausen (with the former Merxhausen monastery )
• Riede (with Riede Castle )
• Sand (largest district and seat of the municipal administration)

history

As numerous archaeological finds show, the area of ​​today's municipality of Bad Emstal was continuously inhabited since the 2nd century BC. The first settlers were chatting . The area of ​​the Fritzlar - Waberner level and the Kassel basin is considered to be the heartland of the Chatti and Batavians . The first written mention of Balhorn comes from the year 774.

In 1976 a thermal spring was drilled in sand and the expansion into a thermal bath began. In 1992 the municipality of Emstal was given the name Bad .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1967, the new municipality of Emstal was created through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Merxhausen (Mayor Günter Werner) and Sand (Mayor Willi Heinemann). Balhorn and Riede were added on December 31, 1971.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016     A total of 25 seats SPD : 13 Greens : 3 BBE : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	50.1	13	46.2	14th	42.3	13	57.3	18th
	BBE	BBE Bad Emstal	38.2	9	36.4	11	-	-	-	-
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	11.7	3	17.3	6th	1.36	0	-	-
	FWG	Free voter community Bad Emstal	-	-	-	-	29.2	9	12.6	4th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	-	-	-	-	27.2	9	30.1	9
	total		100.0	25th	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		50.0		49.9		67.3		55.5

mayor

The non-party Ralf Pfeiffer, who was supported by the CDU and the FWG, was mayor for twelve years. He was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2012. On March 18, 2018, Stefan Frankfurth (SPD) was elected as the new mayor of Bad Emstal.

• 1967 - 1994: Günter Werner, SPD
• 1994 - 2006: Eckhard Bräutigam, SPD
• 2006 - 2018: Ralf Pfeiffer, independent, supported by Free Voters, CDU and BBE
• since 2018: Stefan Frankfurth, SPD

Partnerships

Partnerships
Les Ponts-de-Cé	France	1986
Kühren-Burkartshain	Saxony	1990

The municipality of Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße has been a partner municipality of the Bad Emstal municipality since 1973. The partnership was terminated after a newspaper report in 2018 by the municipality of Bruck, but both municipalities continue to refer to each other on their websites as partner municipality.

Worth seeing

The Hessencourrier trains run through Bad Emstal . In the district of Riede is the Riede Castle with its landscape park. The Falkenstein castle ruins are located on the Falkenstein mountain near the “Sand” part of the municipality . The monastery museum has been housed in the estate next to the Merxhausen monastery since 2004. It is right on the eco-path for peace education.

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Bad Emstal  - travel guide

Wikivoyage: Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal  - Travel Guide

• Homepage of the community
• Bad Emstal, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Bad Emstal in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 411 .
3. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
4. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
6. ↑ http://www.statistik-hessen.de/themenwahl/wahlen/daten/direktwahlen/bad-emstal/index.html
7. ↑ Antje Thon: Ralf Pfeiffer was mayor of Bad Emstal for twelve years. In: HNA.de (Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine). July 9, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Bruck in Austria has declared the partnership with Bad Emstal to be over . In: https://www.hna.de . April 15, 2018 ( hna.de [accessed September 18, 2018]).
9. ^ Municipality of Bad Emstal: partner cities. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .  
10. ^ Community of Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse: partner communities. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .  
11. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Early psychiatry behind monastery walls. (Klostermuseum, Bad Emstal) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 167-168, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9