Bad Fredeburg

Bad Fredeburg City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 29 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 38"  E
Height :	448 m
Area :	13.33 km²
Residents :	3900  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	293 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	57392
Area code :	02974
Location of Bad Fredeburg in Schmallenberg
Bad Fredeburg

Bad Fredeburg is a district of the town of Schmallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Locality

Bad Fredeburg is a climatic health resort in the Rothaar Mountains and a Kneipp spa . The place is assigned to the Schmallenberger Sauerland .

climate

The climate in Bad Fredeburg, which is 450 to 818 m high, can be classified as a medium mountain range.

history

Ruin of the Fredeburg

Fredeburg 1900

In the 14th century the noblemen of Bilstein lacked a fortified center in the eastern part of their territory. For this reason, nobleman Dietrich III built. von Bilstein founded Fredeburg in the first decades of the 14th century. Presumably at the same time a small town was founded outside the castle.

After the noble family died out, the castle fell into the possession of Count Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg. In 1353 he built a chaplain to the Fredeburg chapel. After a feud with Engelbert III. Count Gottfried IV. Fredeburg had to cede from the mark in 1366 to this. In the following decades of the Brandenburg rule there was constant unrest in Fredeburg.

Peace did not return until 1444, when Archbishop Dietrich von Moers managed to conquer Fredeburg in the Soest feud . In 1562, the town passed as a fiefdom into the possession of a branch of the von Bruch family, who had already provided a long line of Burgmannen and Drosten in Fredeburg.

Bad Fredeburg witches chapel

In the 17th century there were numerous witch trials in the Fredeburg office and in Fredeburg . A victim of witch-hunting was Ursel from Gerwenhof . There is a chapel built in the 18th century near the Femelinde of the village. This building, known as the “witch's chapel”, is said to stand on the spot where the witches who were sentenced to death pleaded for comfort and strength just before their execution. The chapel was renovated in 2005/2006.

A city fire destroyed the entire old town in 1810. In the spring of 1945, Fredeburg was again considerably destroyed in the Second World War. During the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, which came into force on January 1, 1975, the city lost its independence and became a district of the city of Schmallenberg. Fredeburg has been a Kneipp spa since 1995 .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue a silver castle with an open gate and three tin towers with black pointed roofs; the middle over a round base is hexagonal with two battlements, the tinned side towers are round. Description: The coat of arms corresponds to the drawing of the Arnsberg coat of arms collection, which is based on the image of a seal imprint from 1539. The colors blue-silver and silver-black are reminiscent of the former affiliation to the County of Arnsberg and the Electorate of Cologne. The official approval took place on April 18, 1911.

Facilities

Public facilities

Schmallenberg District Court

Academy Bad Fredeburg

L 776 through the town

The Schmallenberg District Court and the Schmallenberg Police Station as well as the spa administration, the South Westphalia Music Education Center , the Sauerlandbad, the Schmallenberg City Savings Bank , the ambulance and the Schmallenberg DRK City Association are located in Bad Fredeburg.

Hospitals / specialist clinics

The internal-psychosomatic specialist clinic Hochsauerland with its long tradition in the rehabilitation of psychosomatic patients is located in Bad Fredeburg. The Fachklinik Hochsauerland is in close organizational cooperation with the Fachklinik Fredeburg, one of the largest therapy centers for addiction disorders. The St. Georg Hospital, originally under the same sponsorship, closed in 2012 due to bankruptcy.

swimming pool

The Sauerlandbad in Bad Fredeburg has various swimming pools, two slides, three dining areas and a spacious sauna area.

schools

Fredeburg has a school center with a secondary school, a (Catholic) elementary school and the private boarding school in Fredeburg , whose students, however, attend the local public schools.

Industry

The publicly traded company burgbad , a producer of bathroom furniture, light-sight systems and washbasins, has its corporate headquarters in Bad Fredeburg. The Magog company maintains the only slate mine still producing today ( Fredeburg slate ) in North Rhine-Westphalia .

spa

In addition to tried and tested therapies and medical applications, Bad Fredeburg offers a wide range of outpatient offers such as aqua fitness, back training, power gymnastics, hiking, walking or Nordic walking, all of which are used for prevention. An additional therapeutic specialty results in Bad Fredeburg from the speleotherapy in the Abela healing cave .

Holy Cross Chapel

The parish chapel Heilig-Kreuz is worth seeing .

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  Bad Fredeburg Chapel

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  Interior view of the Bad Fredeburg chapel

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  Entrance portal to the Bad Fredeburg chapel

traffic

The station Fredeburg was on the railway line Altenhundem-Wenholthausen . This has now been shut down.

sons and daughters of the town

See also : List of personalities in the town of Schmallenberg

• Joseph Hengesbach (1860–1940), Catholic publicist
• Franz Schäfer (1879–1958), lawyer and university professor
• Rudolf zur Bonsen (1886–1952), administrative lawyer and district president
• Bernhard Menne (1901–1968), journalist and publicist (including editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag)
• Josef Schüttler (1902–1972), CDU politician (Member of the Bundestag from 1946 to 1949, then from 1949 to 1960 member of the Bundestag, then from 1960 to 1968 Minister of Labor in Baden-Württemberg)
• Michael Soeder (1921–2008), doctor and writer
• Dieter Ruddies (1921–2015), local politician and entrepreneur
• Karl Föster (1915–2010), author and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Paul Tigges (1922–2006), author and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Father Paul-Heinz Guntermann (1930–2006), consultant in the Catholic Foreign Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference and was its director from 1981 to 1993.
• Günther Schauerte (* 1954), archaeologist and deputy general director of the State Museums in Berlin
• Heribert Vollmer (* 1964), computer scientist and university professor

literature

• Heinz Hellmich: With cinnamon and sugar. Memories from Fredeburg 1941–1954. Collection of contemporary witnesses. Zeitgut, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933336-97-X

Web links

Commons : Bad Fredeburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Prof. Dr. Albert Hömberg: History of the city of Fredeburg. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 
• Bad Fredeburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on June 30, 2020
2. ^ Names of the victims of the witch trials / witch persecution Bad Fredeburg (PDF; 17 kB), accessed on May 9, 2016.
3. ↑ Hartmut Hegeler: Witch monuments in the Sauerland . In: Sauerland 4/2008, p. 173
4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 335 f .
5. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Arnsberg 1986, p. 147, ISBN 3-87793-017-4