Bad Hall

Borough Bad Hall
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Steyr-Land
License plate :	SE
Surface:	13.3 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 2 '  N , 14 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '0 "  N , 14 ° 12' 0"  E
Height :	380  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,494 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	413 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4540
Area code :	07258
Community code :	4 15 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 5 4540 Bad Hall
Website:	www.bad-hall.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Bernhard Ruf ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (31 members)	16 5 5 3 1 1 16 5 5 3 1 1  A total of 31 seats ÖVP : 16 FPÖ : 5 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 3 BZÖ : 1 WBH : 1
Location of Bad Hall in the Steyr-Land district
Bad Hall, photo vedute , 1911
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Bad Hall is a municipality and health resort with 5494 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Steyr-Land district in the Traunviertel . The responsible judicial district is Steyr-Land.

geography

location

Bad Hall is located approx. 30 km south of the Upper Austrian capital Linz and 20 km by road west of Steyr. It is located on Voralpen Straße (B 122) and near Kremstal Straße (B 139).

expansion

The extension is 6.4 km from north to south and 4 km from west to east. 6.8% of the area is forested, 74.4% is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the cadastral communities Bad Hall, Großmengersdorf and Hehenberg . Localities (next to Bad Hall) are (each village): Furtberg, Haid , Hehenberg and Kleinmengersdorf.

Neighboring communities

	pipe	Sierning
Kremsmünster
Parish churches	Adlwang	Waldneukirchen

history

The salt spring in the Sulzbachtal was already known to the Celts . Salt was later extracted from the water for consumption. The foundation charter of the Kremsmünster monastery from the year 777 speaks of 3 salt boilers: salinam, que ad Sulzibach est, et tres homines ibi habitantes salem coquentes ('the salt works on the Sulzbach, and three men live there who cook salt' ). Over time, the small medieval artisan settlement has developed into a regional center. While a parish village - today parish churches - arose on the western slope of the Sulzbach valley and the rulership of the Kremsmünster monastery, a trading and administrative center was formed on the eastern slope under the Dukes of Austria, which has long been called Herzogenhall , a typical Hall name for salt production. This place received market rights around 1287 , which makes it one of the oldest markets in Austria.

Around 1600 Hall was the most important halberd forge in Central Europe. Many weapons from the production of master blacksmith Pankraz Taller and Peter Schreckseisen can be found in the Graz armory .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. The healing value of the water from the salt spring on the Sulzbach was only recognized when the spa industry flourished at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1826 the first small bathing establishment was founded. In 1827 the water was analyzed for the first time and a high iodine content was found. In 1837 the doctor Josef Starzengruber obtained the first bathing regulations from the state government. But it was not until the state of Upper Austria took over the mineral spring in 1855 that an extensive spa could be established. Since 1876 the place has been labeled "Bad".

At the end of the 19th century, Bad Hall, like many health resorts, experienced a strong boom. This was reinforced by the opening of the Krems Valley Railway in 1882. Bad Hall was now considered a "world health resort". Famous people came here. Gustav Mahler made his debut as a conductor in the Kurpark in 1880 . After setbacks from wars and the global economic crisis , a modern spa was established in 1948.

Bad Hall was elevated to a town on August 20, 2001 by the Upper Austrian provincial government.

population

Residents

Bad Hall had 5375 inhabitants on January 1, 2019.

Population development

Bad Hall, (Adalbert-) Stifter-Park, Gustav Mahler memorial plaque.

Spring temple of the Tassilo spring

Bad Hall, Stifterpark dedication plaque (2005)

Bad Hall, Kurpark, Tassilo- Gradiergrotte (2005)

Oil production site and derrick on the outskirts of Bad Hall in March 2009

politics

The municipal council was last elected in 2015 ; this is composed as follows:

• 16 mandates ÖVP ,
• 05 mandates FPÖ ,
• 05 mandates SPÖ ,
• 03 mandates GREEN ,
• 01 WBH mandate,
• 01 mandate BZÖ

mayor

• since 2015 Bernhard Ruf (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold on a green shield base, a silver chapel with a partially built-in flank tower and ridge turret, black roofs and window openings, flanked on both sides by a black-stemmed linden tree with green leaves. The community colors are blue and white.

The coat of arms shows the Margarethenkapelle "am Anger unter den Sieben Linden" , which was documented in 1298 and was last renovated in 1977–1981 of the mayor and the councilors).

Town twinning

Bad Hall has a municipal partnership with Pratovecchio Stia in Tuscany , Italy .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Bad Hall

• The Catholic parish church Bad Hall was built from 1869 to 1888 in the neo-Gothic style.
• Tassilo spring temple: The Tassilo spring is the oldest iodine-brine spring in Bad Hall. First mentioned in the founding document of the Kremsmünster Monastery (777). From the forecourt of the spring temple, the medicinal Tassilo spring is still led to the health center today. The source temple is located in the parish of Pfarrkirchen near Bad Hall.
• Kurhaus
• Heimatmuseum, Eduard-Bach-Straße 4, former Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Badehaus (also: Neues Badehaus ), opened on June 1st, 1908. Planning: Matthäus Schlager (1870–1959), interior design: Mauriz Balzarek
• Country villa
• Bandstand
• Kurpark , 1855-1857 as landscaped (then: Badgarten ) of Josef Runkel (1817-1899), the Hofgärtner the pin Kremsmuenster created
  • Stifterpark , extension of the spa park created between 1900 and 1902 (including the 9,000 m² garden of Villa Rabl )
• Stadttheater Bad Hall : The theater focuses on opera, operettas and musicals.
• Hall Castle
• Forum Hall: There are three museums in the Forum Hall: the local history museum, the front door collection and the craft museum
  • Local history museum: shows the development of Bad Hall from a craft settlement to a health resort.
  • Front door collection: shows old craftsmanship using more than 100 doors
  • Handwerkermuseum: shows 23 rural handicrafts , furthermore a documentation of the structural change of the handicraft

music

• Spa concerts: Spa concerts with the spa orchestra Bad Hall take place regularly in Bad Hall . The orchestra goes back to the Cur music band founded in 1855 . The most famous conductor of the spa orchestra was Gustav Mahler .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Public transport : Bad Hall was previously connected to the railway network with branches of the Pyhrnbahn and Steyrtalbahn . Today these routes have been removed and Bad Hall can no longer be reached by rail. The closest station, Rohr-Bad Hall of the Pyhrnbahn, is around 5 kilometers from the center of Bad Hall. There are regular connections with the Postbus to Linz , Steyr and Kirchdorf an der Krems , among others .

The former train station, which was built in Art Nouveau style, is a listed building and was rebuilt inside in 2009. It now houses a café and two small businesses and is now a central part of the “am Bahnhof” shopping center, which was completed in 2011 after the remaining sidings and the former warehouse were demolished.

Road traffic : The Voralpen Straße B 122 leads through Bad Hall from Amstetten to Sattledt . The closest motorway is the West Autobahn A 1. The junction in Sattledt is around 15 kilometers from the center of Bad Hall.

Public facilities

• Eurotherme Bad Hall : The medicinal water with a high iodine content (iodide content 30 to 50 mg per liter) from Bad Hall comes today not only from the spring on the Sulzbach, known from prehistoric times, but from several drilling probes. They were brought down in the 1950s in the course of the search for oil and led to a depth of 2247 m. No oil was found, but the depot from which the old healing spring on the Sulzbach gets its water was drilled. The origin of the healing waters of Bad Hall is directly related to the oil deposits to be found further west.

The medicinal water from Bad Hall has a therapeutic effect primarily on diseases of the blood vessels (heart, arteries and veins, high blood pressure) as well as the eyes, respiratory tract and joints.

• Bad Hall volunteer fire department
• Red Cross Bad Hall
• Water supply: The water supply for the city is guaranteed by the Bad Hall water association. The sources are in the municipality of Kremsmünster. About 450,000 cubic meters of water are distributed annually via a pipeline network of 43 kilometers (as of 2018).

education

• Bad Hall elementary school
• New Bad Hall Middle School

Caritas Senior Citizens' Home Schloss Hall

Care and support

Caritas Upper Austria operates a senior citizens' home in Schloss Hall .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 2017: Josef Pühringer (* 1949), Governor of Upper Austria 1995–2017

sons and daughters of the town

• Karl Richter (1866–1927), pharmacist and politician
• Franz Haböck (1868–1921), music teacher
• Norbert Maria Schachinger (1897–1974), Benedictine, religious educator, author and founder of an order
• Hans Wölfel (1902–1944), lawyer, opponent of National Socialism, sentenced to death by the People's Court in 1944 and executed
• Robert Kirchhoff (1920–1999), psychologist and university professor

Other people related to the city

• Richard Puchner (1883–1965), architect and builder
• Gottfried Melzer (1932–2013), Catholic priest and anti-Semitic activist

Others

State Horticultural Show Bad Hall 2005

logo

• Bad Hall has been a member of the Ring of European Forging Cities since 2002 , which has set itself the goal of promoting the regional diversity of the blacksmith's craft and metal design in the global unity of Europe at all levels.
• In 2005, the State Garden Show of Upper Austria took place in Bad Hall .
• There are 70 farms in the municipality, 62 of which are used for agriculture.
• After the search for crude oil in the 1950s was unsuccessful, but led to the development of healing water, a small oil deposit was developed in 2000 on the northern outskirts of Bad Hall and a larger one in 2008/9 northwest of Bad Hall.
• The largest industrial company in Bad Hall is Agru Kunststofftechnik .

gallery

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  Bad Hall sanatorium (built 1905–1907) (Parkstrasse 4; until approx. 2006: Kurhotel Tassilo , then: Hotel Miraverde ).

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  Kurpark, music pavilion by Mauriz Balzarek, built in 1907

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  Former Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Badehaus (also: Neues Badehaus ), completed in 1908

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  Kurmittelhaus , canceled in 2009. (In the foreground: checkpoint for zernierten range State Garden Show 2005 .) ( ).

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  Landesvilla , Parkstrasse 1, built 1912-14 according to plans by Mauriz Balzarek

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  Villa Rabl , main front, Kurpromenade 2, built in 1866 according to plans by Theophil Hansen

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  Villa Rabl , main front, postcard, 1905. (Tower building no longer exists today.)

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  Villa Rabl , garden complex Villengarten , exhibition concept: Rupert Halbartschlager, State Garden Show 2005 .

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  Stadttheater, Steyrer Straße 7, picture postcard, 1904

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  Sonnenheim , Parkstrasse 5, built in 1929 by the Association of Pension Insurance

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  Former BVA Kurheim Justus , main entrance to the administration wing , Linzer Straße 11

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  Tourist information in the old bath house

literature

• Kurfonds Bad Hall (Ed.): Bad Hall. The iodine brine bath in Upper Austria. Therapeutic indications, forms of treatment, healing values, research work, history, culture, buildings, leisure time, excursions . Braumüller, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7003-0255-X .
• Kurt Walzel: Bad Hall in old views . European Library, Zaltbommel 1985, ISBN 90-288-3174-6 .
• Katharina Ulbrich (employee), Bad Hall community (ed.): Bad Hall home book . Bad Hall community, Bad Hall 1996, ISBN 3-9500514-0-6 .
• Margarita Pertlwieser: On the early history of the Bad Hall theater . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 53, Land Oberösterreich, Linz 1999, ISSN  0029-7550 , pp. 96–116 ( online (PDF; 3.7 MB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum).
• Raimund Ločičnik: Bad Hall in the old days. Illustrated history of a world health resort . Ennsthaler. Steyr 2005, ISBN 3-85068-667-1 ( PDF; 8 kB table of contents online at obvsg.at).
• Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape survey of the Bad Hall municipality. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2008, pp. 1–82 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Monika Gaigg: The history of the spa from the Middle Ages to modern times with a focus on the spa architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, based on the Upper Austrian spa towns of Bad Ischl and Bad Hall . Master thesis. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 2011, OBV .

Web links

Commons : Bad Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS ).
• City website
• More information about the municipality of Bad Hall on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 4th part: Municipalities - Upper Austria - 37. Bad Hall . In: Austrian official calendar online . Jusline (Verlag Österreich), Vienna 2002, ZDB -ID 2126440-5 .
2. ↑ UB OÖ 2 No. 2; quoted from I. Hausner (arrangement): Old German name book. The tradition of place names in Austria and South Tyrol from the beginnings to 1200. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Dialect Research, Vienna, 1989 ff., P. 486.
3. ↑ Katharina Ulbrich: The armory in Hall. Halberds and skewers from the Bad Hall area to the whole world . In: EuroJournal Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen. No. 1/2 from year 1999/00. Schiffkorn, Puchenau 2000, ZDB -ID 2307456-5 , p. 26 ff, online (PDF; 135 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
4. ↑ Numbers and facts, in: Bad Hall's website consulted on November 13, 2015
5. ^ State of Upper Austria, coat of arms of the Bad Hall municipality. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Seegen: Handbook of general and special healing sources theory . 2nd, revised edition. Braumüller, Vienna 1862, OBV , pp. 491–494 ( full text online on Google Books).
7. ↑ From health resorts and summer resorts. (...) The new bathhouse in Bad Hall. In:  Der Tourismus , No. 10/1908, July 5, 1908, p. 14, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ^ Ferdinand Krackowizer , Franz Berger : Biographical Lexicon of the State of Austria above the Enns. Scholars, writers and artists in Upper Austria since 1800 . Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research, Passau / Linz an der Donau 1931, p. 290 ( online at digi.landesbibliothek.at).
9. ↑ Local history museum . In: List of listed objects in Bad Hall .
10. ^ ^{A b} Katharina Ulbrich: 150 years of Bad Hall spa gardens. In: EuroJournal Linz - Mühlviertel - Bohemian Forest. Issue 2/2005, XI. Vintage. Kultur Plus (Ed.), Linz 2005, p. 13 ( online (PDF; 230 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
11. ^ Katharina Ulbrich: Josef Runkel (1817–1899), the planner of the landscape garden in Bad Hall. In: EuroJournal Linz - Mühlviertel - Bohemian Forest. Issue 2/2005, XI. Vintage. Kultur Plus (Ed.), Linz 2005, p. 14 ( online (PDF; 300 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
12. ↑ Elke Dannhäuser (Red.), Peter Elgaß (Ed.): Door and gate. The catalog for the international exhibition of the municipality of Bad Hall and the Forum Hall. International exhibition “Door and Gate”, craft and art in metal. May 10 to October 26, 2003, Bad Hall Upper Austria . Hephaistos, Immenstadt-Werdenstein 2003, ISBN 3-931951-20-0 .
13. ^ City of Bad Hall, city life, interesting facts. In: bad-hall.ooe.gv.at. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
14. ^ Caritas Upper Austria, Help and Offers, Senior Citizens' Home. In: caritas-linz.at. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Lisa-Maria Auer: Pühringer is now an honorary citizen in Bad Hall . In: mein district.at , July 11, 2017, accessed on February 11, 2018.
16. ↑ Ludwig Richter :  Sanatorium of Dr. Fritz Ritter von Gerstel in Bad Hall, Upper Austria. In:  Der Bautechniker , year 1907, No. 20/1907 (XXVII. Year), pp. 381–384. (Online at ANNO ). .
17. ^ Herbert Friedl et al .: End of war and occupation in Bad Hall. Conversation with contemporary witnesses in Bad Hall's Heimathaus on February 3, 1996 (2) . In: ooezeitgeschichte.at , accessed on April 30, 2018.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mahler (1860–1911) spent the entire 1880 season as Kapellmeister in Bad Hall. His tasks are said to have included putting the sheet music on the desk before each performance, dusting the piano and driving baby Mitzi Zwerenz (daughter of the theater director) around the theater in her stroller during the break . - See: Pertlwieser: early history. P. 113.
2. ↑ 1909 named as a (new) part of the spa gardens in honor of the founder. - See: Katharina Ulbrich: Adalbert Stifter in Pfarrkirchen and Bad Hall ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: adalbertstifter.at. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
3. ↑ The presence on the plaque showing the workplace Mahler refers to this as a summer theater between 1 June 1870 and the end of the spa season in 1884 used one-story, 600-seat interim Theater , which was made of wood, suitable for illumination by naked flame and therefore it was only played in the afternoons. - See: Pertlwieser: early history. Pp. 103, 107, 116, as well as: 70 years of Bad Hall health resort. (...) The Kurtheater in Bad Hall. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , fixed number of the "Heimatland", No. 24 of June 14, 1925. Illustrated supplement to the "Linzer Volksblatt", June 14, 1925, p. 30 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Built in 1855. - Eva Bakos , Thomas P. Widmann, Elke Schäle-Schmitt (ed.): Upper Austria. Lakes and mountains . 2nd updated edition. HB-Bildatlas, Volume 218. HB-Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-616-06119-1 , p. 95.
5. ↑ 1912–1914 built according to plans by Mauriz Balzarek (1872–1945). Considered the most important Art Nouveau building in Upper Austria. - From: Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. History of the Austrian federal states. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 , p. 369.
6. ↑ ^{a b} 1883–84 built according to plans by the Viennese architect Wurm (d. I .: Alois Maria Wurm , from 1909: von Arnkreuz; 1843–1920), opened on May 31, 1885 under the Linz director Julius Laska (1850–1933). - See: Pertlwieser: early history. P. 116, as well as: Bad Hall, May 28. (...) One of the main interests is likely to be in the new theater (...). In:  Tages-Post , No. 113/1885, May 31, 1885, p. 4, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ ^{a b} In the background of the group of trees on the right the Kurmittelhaus , which was razed in October / November 2009 in favor of a parking lot . - Bad Hall courier. Information for the Bad Hall spa district . Issue 11.2009 (year CLXVIII), ZDB -ID 2303259-5 , OBV , p. 27.
8. ↑ The original villa garden was designed in 1866 by the collegiate gardener Josef Runkel. - See: Kurpark in culture and sights .
9. ^ During the Second World War, Sonnenheim reserve hospital (visited by Sophie Scholl in December 1942, among others ), then the American hospital for disarmed soldiers . Later until 2009: Sonnenpark - Center for Psychosocial Health .
10. ↑ The house built on an area of ​​20,000 m² (which did not have a medicinal water connection) was closed on January 1st, 2002 and stood empty for ten years. On April 8, 2015, the BVA opened the new Justuspark therapy center designed for 100 patients . Treatment focus: burn-out as well as medical-psychiatric rehabilitation. - See: "Burn-out" - Opening of the Justuspark Therapy Center in Bad Hall  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: bva.at , accessed on June 23, 2016.