Bad Hersfeld

Bad Hersfeld
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: max / min temperatures, monthly average temperatures, precipitation and hours of sunshine, rainy days, humidity

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Height :	212 m above sea level NHN
Area :	73.82 km 2
Residents:	29,944 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	406 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36251
Primaries :	06621, 06625 (Beiershausen)
License plate :	HEF, ROF
Community key :	06 6 32 002
LOCODE :	DE BHE
NUTS :	DE733
City structure:	11 districts
; City administration address :	Breitenstrasse 55 ; 36251 Bad Hersfeld
Website :	www.bad-hersfeld.de
Mayor :	Thomas Fehling (independent since 2014)
Location of the city of Bad Hersfeld in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district

The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district town of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in the north-east of Hesse ( Germany ).

Bad Hersfeld is known nationwide primarily for the Bad Hersfeld Festival in the monastery ruins , which has been taking place every year since 1951 . The monastery ruins are considered the largest Romanesque church ruins in Europe . The history of the city of Bad Hersfeld goes back to the 8th century.

geography

Geographical location

View of the monastery ruins from the tower of the city church

The city lies in the Hersfeld depression , which is formed by the confluence of the Fulda and Haune rivers . The city center is on the left bank of the Fulda. In the urban area which opens Geisbach and directly below the city on the right bank the Solz in Fulda. In the southwest lies the Vogelsberg area , in the northwest the Knüllgebirge and in the northeast the Seulingswald (to be seen on the photo in the background). The lowest point is 195 m above sea level. NN in the area where the Solz meets the Fulda. The highest point in the city limits is 408 m above sea level. NN high Laxberg (Knüllgebirge). The city is counted to North Hesse or East Hesse , depending on the definition . The nearest larger cities are Kassel 52 km north, Gießen 79 km south-west, Fulda 36 km south and Eisenach 45 km east of Bad Hersfeld. The German half-timbered road runs through Bad Hersfeld .

geology

View over the old town of Bad Hersfeld

The old town lies on an alluvial or fluvial alluvial cone made of gravel and rubble that was washed ashore between Fulda and Geisbach. Also in the valley floor of the Fulda there are gravel and pebbles from the Holocene , which are mostly of alluvial origin. They are criss-crossed with loess and clay layers, which are of diluvial origin.

The largest area of the rock layers exposed to the surface belongs to the geological age of the Middle Buntsandstein (the Buntsandstein is the Lower Triassic ). The mountain ranges around the city are therefore essentially formed by the formation of the Germanic Triassic . Most of the ground-covering gravel and pebbles in the river and stream valleys originate from this formation. In the west and east, the formation of the Middle Buntsandstein extends up to a height of about 400 m above sea level. NN , so z. B. on the Stellerskuppe ( 480.5 m above sea level ) or on the Haukuppe ( 446.1 m above sea level ). In the east, on the Wippershainer Höhe , this layer extends up to a height of 440 m above sea level. NN . The lower limit of the middle red sandstone is at about 110 m above sea level. NN .

Younger rock layers of the Triassic are only sporadically and in small areas in the urban area. This includes the Röt (Upper Buntsandstein), the source horizon of many small brooks. The springs are outside the city. Above that lie Lower and Middle Muschelkalk (the Muschelkalk is the Middle Triassic). These layers are preserved in a rift running from west to east , which is between 110 and 460 meters wide and about 4600 meters long. This so-called Hersfelder Graben extends between Heenes , Wehneberg and Gut Oberrode, north of the city center. The trench was formed about 200 million years ago when the trench first opened and the limestone layers that had not yet eroded collapsed. Later the ditch pushed back together a little, so that the layers of limestone wrinkled. Some of this lime was mined in Kalkobes, Heenes and Oberrode until the 1960s and processed in lime kilns to make fertilizer, building lime and plastering lime. The youngest rock layers of the Triassic, e.g. B. the Letten coal sandstone of the Lower Keuper (the Keuper is the Upper Triassic) - are only preserved in the region under the protection of lava covers, which do not occur in the area of the city.

Due to the uplifting of the landscape during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, no rock layers have been preserved from these geological periods. Volcanic rocks from the Miocene (Young Tertiary) still occur on the Haukuppe, among other places.

Layers of rock that do not come to light here are the Lower Buntsandstein , which extends from about 90 meters below the city (about 110 m above sea level ) to about 390 meters below the sea . Below is the Upper and Lower Zechstein (Upper Permian ). The city of Bad Hersfeld's two healing springs are fed from the Lower Zechstein. The layers of the younger Zechstein be in underground mining from the 400-meter sole at the Werra (herring, Philippsthal) and at the Fulda (Neuhof near Fulda) for the mining of potash used.

Expansion of the urban area

Today's city center extends on the slopes of the Tagberg ( 323.5 m above sea level ), the Frauenberg ( 310 m above sea level ), the Wehneberg ( 320 m above sea level ) and the Wendeberg ( 291 m above sea level ) and extends into the valleys of the Meisebach and the Geisbach and has an extension from southwest to northeast of about 4.5 km. The extension from northwest to southeast is about 3.5 km.

The old town in the Fulda valley extends in an oval shape with about 960 meters east-west and 570 m north-south over about 40 hectares ; The course of the former city moat is traced today by the city ring that bypasses the old town.

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View from Johannesberg over Bad Hersfeld

The district of the city has an area of 73.83 km². The largest part of the district takes up the forest area with 38.91% (3067 hectares). Further land use data sorted by size are 2,452 hectares of agricultural area , 972 hectares of buildings and open space , 609 hectares of traffic area , 124 hectares of recreational area, 101 hectares of water area and 17 hectares of operating area. Another 41 hectares are undeveloped areas that cannot be assigned to one of the aforementioned types of use.

City structure

In addition to the city center, Bad Hersfeld consists of the districts Allmershausen , Asbach , Beiershausen , Eichhof , Heenes , Hohe Luft , Johannesberg , Kathus , Kohlhausen , Petersberg and Sorga .

The inner city areas are not considered to be separate districts. The old town is divided into the monastery district and the lower town to the east of it. In between is the oldest part of the old town. The spa district to the west of the monastery district belongs to the inner city. There are also Kalkobes (a village that was incorporated into the municipality at the beginning of the 20th century), Wehneberg (this place emerged from an estate), Zellersgrund, Oberrode (an agricultural operation), Hof Hählgans (also an agricultural operation) and Mönches (an Desert, until 1998 there was a forester's house).

Neighboring communities

Starting clockwise in the north, these are Ludwigsau , Friedewald , Schenklengsfeld , Hauneck , Niederaula , Kirchheim and Neuenstein .

climate

Due to its location in Central Europe, Bad Hersfeld is in the warm, temperate climate zone . The regional climate is determined by the protected location in the Fulda valley, with the surrounding Hessian and Thuringian low mountain ranges. In Bad Hersfeld, this leads to a relatively high annual mean temperature of 8.7 ° C and a fairly dry climate with only 718.1 mm of average annual precipitation. The mean annual sunshine duration is 1385.4 hours. On a long-term average, Bad Hersfeld has 34 summer days , 86 frost days and 22 ice days per year.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Bad Hersfeld

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2	4th	9	13	18th	20th	23	23	18th	13	7th	2	O	12.7
Min. Temperature (° C)	-1	-1	2	4th	8th	11	13	13	10	6th	2	0	O	5.6
Temperature (° C)	-0.1	0.8	4.0	8.0	12.8	16.1	17.6	17.0	13.6	9.2	4.2	1.1	O	8.7

Precipitation ( mm )	54.1	46.2	55.6	55.0	68.9	76.8	69.6	59.4	51.1	53.1	62.9	65.5	Σ	718.2

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	1.27	2.19	3.37	4.78	6.20	6.06	6.43	5.94	4.35	3.12	1.38	1.09	O	3.9

Rainy days ( d )	17th	14th	12	14th	13	13	15th	14th	12	14th	16	16	Σ	170

Humidity ( % )	84	81	77	72	70	71	71	73	78	82	84	85	O	77.3

Source: max / min temperatures, monthly average temperatures, precipitation and hours of sunshine, rainy days, humidity

The weather station of the German Weather Service in Bad Hersfeld (10542), which has been automated since 2008 and from which this information comes, is located on the northwest slope of the Wippershainer Höhe , about 60 meters above the city.

history

Copper engraving by Hersfeld around 1600 by Matthäus Merian, who had a pen drawing by Wilhelm Dilich as a template

1250 years Bad Hersfeld: Postage stamp from 1986

According to written records, the history of Bad Hersfeld began with the monk Sturmius , who built a monastic hermitage in Haerulfisfelt in 736 , and with Lullus , who founded the Benedictine monastery in Hersfeld in 769 . Both were students of the missionary bishop Boniface . Excavations suggest, however, with traces of Neolithic settlement around 2000 BC. BC, a Bronze Age grave around 1200 BC. And finds from the La Tène period around 400 BC. BC to a much earlier settlement in the city area.

The city's landmark, the tower of the Hersfeld town church

Hersfeld was first mentioned as a market town in 1142 and as a town in 1170. This was also the time when the Hersfeld Abbey reached its climax in the political arena. In the following centuries the power of the abbey waned, which since the Interregnum could no longer rely on the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire . From 1373 the Landgraviate of Hesse received influence over the city through protective alliances. The power struggle between the abbey and the city reached its climax on Vitalis Night in 1378. In 1439 large parts of the city were destroyed by fire. The oldest half-timbered house in the city is the sexton's house from 1452. Abbot Ludwig V (1571–1588) triggered the last building bloom in the city for many centuries by expanding and rebuilding the abbey buildings in the Weser Renaissance style. These can still be seen all over the old town today, e.g. B. the former mint or Eichhof Palace .

Due to the German Peasants' War in 1525, large parts of the city and the abbey fell to Hesse. After the death of the last abbot in 1606 and the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the royal abbey of Hersfeld was assigned to the secular Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . In the Seven Years' War in 1761 the collegiate church and the monastery buildings burned down, and in 1807 the city narrowly escaped complete annihilation by Napoleonic occupation troops , as the Baden lieutenant colonel Lingg only "literally" carried out Napoléon's orders: he was supposed to set fire to the city on all four sides and did it this by having four separate buildings set on fire.

In 1821 Hersfeld became the district town of the Hersfeld district in Kurhessen . A train station was opened as early as 1866 and rail traffic began. Since 1938, Hersfeld has been connected to the autobahn from Kirchheim to Kassel (now the A 7 ) via a driveway . In 1945 two captured officers vouched for the peaceful surrender of Hersfeld and thus saved the city from destruction a second time.

From 1945 onwards, as a garrison for the US Army , Hersfeld was mainly the location of armored US cavalry regiments (Armored Cavalry Regiments (ACR)) . The units were tasked with securing the inner-German border in the highly vulnerable section of the so-called Fulda Gap . In 1993 the US Department of Defense announced that the 3rd Squadron of the 11th ACR Blackhorse ( 3rd Squadron 11th ACR Blackhorse ) would be withdrawn and the Bad Hersfeld location would be abandoned by clearing the McPheeters Barracks .

The city of Bad Hersfeld has been allowed to call itself Bad Hersfeld since 1949 and has been the Hessian state bath since 1963.

After the merger of the former districts of Hersfeld and Rotenburg, Bad Hersfeld became the district town of the newly created district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1918, the previously independent municipality of Kalkobes was incorporated. In 1928 the Meisebach estate was added. This is the area of today's Johannesberg district (Johannesberg and Bingartes domain).

On December 31, 1971 Allmershausen , Asbach , Beiershausen , Heenes , Kathus , Kohlhausen , Petersberg and Sorga were incorporated.

Population development

Population development of Bad Hersfeld from 1871 to 2017

In 1525 there were 400 men in the city. Presumably only the “ house sat ” (men with citizenship ) were counted here. Before the Thirty Years War , in 1614, there were 725 households. The total population of the city is estimated at 3300 to 3600 during this period. The city only reached this number of inhabitants again in the middle of the 18th century.

After the Thirty Years' War, the population rose only slowly, but continued to decline through numerous wars, epidemics and famine. Only from the middle of the 19th century, when the city expanded beyond the city walls and there was considerable growth in the textile and mechanical engineering industry, did the population increase sharply. Between 1910 and 1913 there were over 10,000. After the Second World War between 1946 and 1950 there were more than 20,000 residents in the city. By 1962, the population of refugees from the east reached around 27,000, and the 30,000 mark was finally exceeded between 1987 and 1994.

Due to the population structure and the forecast migration to metropolitan areas , HA Hessen Agentur GmbH assumes that the population in the district will decrease by 6 percent by 2020. This decrease can therefore also be expected for the city during this period.

Evangelical town church

Catholic Church of St. Lullus-Sturmius

Religions and denominations

The area of the city of Bad Hersfeld today belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and the largely congruent Catholic diocese of Fulda . The city is mostly Protestant.

In addition to the two large churches, there are also various congregations and free churches based in Bad Hersfeld, including the regional church community , Evangelical Free Church Community ( Baptists ), the Evangelical Christians -Baptists (EChB), the Seventh-day Adventists and the Free Christian Community ( Pentecostal Church ) . Other religious communities in Bad Hersfeld are the New Apostolic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses .

Almost 700 Muslims belong to the three mosque communities in the city.

politics

City Council

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

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council A total of 39 seats Left : 1 SPD : 13 Greens : 3 FDP : 5 CDU : 7 NBL : 3 FW : 3 UBH : 4	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	32.5	13	38.7	17th	47.7	22nd	48.1	22nd
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	19.3	7th	18.3	8th	33.9	15th	35.7	16
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	12.0	5	10.9	5	4.7	2	-	-
	UBH	Independent citizens for Bad Hersfeld	9.3	4th	-	-	3.8	2	-	-
	NBL	New list of citizens	8.6	3	11.1	5	-	-	-	-
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.7	3	10.6	5	3.0	1	6.0	3
	FWG	Free voter community Bad Hersfeld	7.1	3	3.7	2	3.4	2	7.1	3
	LEFT	The left	3.5	1	2.3	1	1.0	0	-	-
	FG	Fractional community for Bad Hersfeld	-	-	4.5	2	-	-	-	-
	BfH	Citizens for Hersfeld	-	-	-	-	2.5	1	3.1	1
	total		100.0	39	100.0	45	100.0	45	100.0	45
	Voter turnout in%		44.0		41.7		43.7		43.9

Town hall in Bad Hersfeld

Acting Mayor Thomas Fehling at the election party after the preliminary results were announced

Lothar Seitz (SPD) was elected head of the city council and Gunter Grimm (CDU) was elected First City Councilor .

After coalition talks, a grand coalition of the SPD and CDU was rejected in the city parliament.

mayor

In the runoff election on November 21, 2010, Thomas Fehling (FDP) was elected mayor with 50.7% . In doing so, he prevailed against the SPD candidate, Gunter Müller.

In the mayoral election on September 11, 2016, Fehling prevailed in the first ballot with 52.5% against the SPD candidate, Karsten Vollmar, and was re-elected as mayor until 2022.

Mayor from World War II:

Surname	from	to	Remarks
Bernhard André	1945	1945	Kaufmann, acting mayor
Heinrich Sauerwein	1945	1946	Appointed mayor, became the first freely elected district administrator of the district of Hersfeld in 1946
Fritz Bruehl	1947	1948	Independent, then went to Westdeutscher Rundfunk as an editor
Otto Jansen	1949	1962	Independent, before his time in Hersfeld worked in the city administrations of Cologne (1910–1925), Butzbach (1925–1932), Gronau (1932–1937) and Ahlen / Westf. (1938–1945)
Werner Hessemer	1963	1977	Elected as SPD candidate. Due to his illness, the official business from the summer of 1977 until Hartmut Henning Boehmer took up the job was carried out by the First City Councilor Karl-Wilhelm Rüger.
Hartmut Henning Boehmer	1978	1989	Elected as CDU candidate. After being re-elected by the city council in 1989, the voting procedure took place immediately. In the re-election in 1989, the votes of the NPD were decisive. The official business was temporarily carried out by the First City Councilor Tilo Scheurmann.
Walter Weiss	1990	1996	Elected as SPD candidate.
Hartmut Henning Boehmer	1996	2010	Runs as a non-party candidate and, first directly elected mayor, was re-elected in 2001 and 2007. Retired on August 31, 2010. From September 1 to December 31, 2010, the First City Councilor Lothar Seitz was in charge of the official business. Boehmer died on June 15, 2013.
Thomas Fehling	2011		Started as an applicant for the FDP and has been in office since January 1, 2011. He is re-elected until the end of 2022.

Former mayors:

Hermann Morchutt (1780)
Valentin Morchutt (1839 to 1832)
Carl Strauss (1896 and 1916)

coat of arms

Double cross, at the city-side entrance to the monastery district

City logo

Blazon : “Split; in front, in blue, a lion turned to the left, crowned in gold and armed with gold, divided nine times by silver and red; behind in silver a red double cross with toe. "

The oldest city seal, mentioned since 1256, shows Saint Wigbert , the smaller seal from the 14th century shows the patrons Simon and Judas Thaddäus of the Benedictine Abbey of Hersfeld with the Mainz wheel and the double cross as the monastery coat of arms (see Hersfeld district coat of arms ). The latter in the shield stands alone in the late Gothic town seal. It was ousted by the Hessian lion after the city was conquered by Landgrave Philipp in 1525 . Since 1559, the connection between the lion and the double cross, which first appeared in seals, became more and more popular in urban heraldry, as evidenced by the literature since the 17th century.

The double cross is also known under the name Hersfeld double cross . However, real designs are often more like a Lorraine cross , three specific features of the patriarchal cross are usually missing. The double cross stands alone in the late Gothic town seal. First of all, the coat of arms showed the undivided lion in the front half of the now split coat of arms, in the back half of the double cross with the tip of the lily of the feet at the gap. It is stylistically taken up again in the Bad Hersfeld city logo, which was designed in 2008. It is used for marketing purposes and on the city's website.

There are the following heraldic motto :

Hersfeld, the city, it leads in the sign

a cross and a lion wild.

In the cross and in sorrow, have lion courage

and trust in God, it will be fine.

In the city, this coat of arms was only known to a wider public from September 19, 1836. On that day, the government of the State of Hesse issued a decree prohibiting the sole use of the double cross in city seals. The coat of arms was conceived by Eschweger pastor Hermann Fabronius for the Hessian coat of arms book by Wilhelm Wessel (1621-1625) .

A Latin motto of the city from the Middle Ages can be read in a lintel of the Renaissance town hall. It is JUSTITIAM PACEM ET VERITATEM DILIGITE - “Loves justice, peace and truth”.

The city colors are silver (white) and red. Flag red, white with the coat of arms.

Town twinning

Welcome column at the city entrance with the city's logo

Since 1988 a partnership with the French L'Haÿ-les-Roses in the Val-de-Marne department . In 1990 a partnership with the Thuringian Bad Salzungen followed and since 1994 Bad Hersfeld has had a partnership with the Czech Šumperk / Mährisch Schönberg . There has been a friendship agreement with Malmesbury since 2016 .

Sponsorship

Already in 1954 the sponsorship for the expelled German Moravians from the town of Šumperk (Mährisch-Schönberg) was taken over.
A sponsorship for the speedboat of the German Navy " S 75 Zobel " was taken over in 1973. The sponsorship ended when the speedboat was decommissioned on November 16, 2016.
In 2003 an Intercity-Express2 multiple unit was named “Bad Hersfeld”.

Attractions

Since 1962, as part of the Bad Hersfeld Festival, the city has awarded the Hersfeld Prize annually to actors of the current festival season. Another honorary award given by the city is the “Ulenroder Crucifix”. This is the cast of a bronze crucifix from the early 11th century that was found in the deserted area of Ulenrode (the place was above Meckbach in what is now the municipality of Ludwigsau ).

theatre

The Bad Hersfeld Festival takes place every summer . Outside of the festival season, theater performances are given in the town hall.

Museums

The Bad Hersfeld City Museum is housed in the only surviving wing of the former monastery south of the monastery ruins. In addition to the departments on town and monastery history, the department on town crafts is also worth mentioning. In the chapter house and the attic temporary exhibitions (contemporary art). In October 2011, the former was in the under industrial monument floor hall, company shields , the interactive exhibition wordy opened at the issues around language and communication. At Konrad Duden Today a small museum right next to the former "Old convent school" (Am Neumarkt). Duden was the director here from 1876 to 1905, which is why the school bears his name today. The "Haus Mährisch Schönberg" shows a local history collection from the former Mährisch-Schönberg district (Am Neumarkt). Since 2006 there has been a small Sparkasse Museum in the headquarters of the Sparkasse Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg , in which the history of the financial institution and the changes in the working world in the banking sector are presented.

The ruins of the monastery in Bad Hersfeld

Oldest half-timbered house in Bad Hersfeld, built in 1452

The Robert Heil Tower, an observation tower on the Tagberg

Buildings

There are 216 listed buildings in the old town. The ruins of the collegiate church are located on the western side of the old town . The largest Romanesque church ruin in Europe is used as a venue for the Bad Hersfeld Festival . In the monastery district is the Katharinenturm, in which the Lullus bell , the oldest dated bell in Germany, hangs. There is also a wing of the monastery area (now a museum, chapter house preserved) and larger preserved remains of the city wall (south gate, half-shell tower). The two north school ponds in the Leonhard Müller plant are remnants of the city moat. In this park there is a copy of the Vitalis Cross at the place where the citizens were able to repel the attack of the Sternerbund in 1378. The original cross can be viewed in the museum. Further remains of the city fortifications are in the lower town (eastern side of the old town), including the Klausturm, a guard and prison tower, and the somewhat smaller powder tower.

Furthermore, in Johannestor (street) there is the Elisabeth Hospital, founded in 1239, with a Gothic chapel. Further buildings of the abbey are the Eichhof Castle and the ruins (brother house) of the former Johannesberg provost. Both structures are about three kilometers from the old town and can also be reached on foot via the spa gardens.

In the center of the old town is the Gothic town church , its church tower from the 14th century is Bad Hersfeld's landmark . The church square has a closed half-timbered building, including the former sexton's house. the oldest half-timbered house in the city from 1452. Right next to it is the town hall , which was built around 1371 in Gothic style and rebuilt and expanded from 1607 to 1612 in the Weser Renaissance style. There are more half-timbered houses in the pedestrian zone . The richly decorated carpenter's house on Klausstrasse is particularly worth mentioning here.

On Linggplatz, the old court square of the abbey (old stone double cross), a statue commemorates the Baden officer Lingg von Linggenfeld , who saved the city from being burned down by Napoleonic troops in 1807. Next to it is the market square, on which there are patrician houses from the Gothic era, including the old mint. They were rebuilt during the Renaissance and, with their gables, like the half-timbered houses opposite, bear witness to the last building bloom of the Hersfeld monastery. The Linggklause stands next to other half-timbered houses on Neumarkt; it was the accommodation of Lieutenant Colonel Lingg. The old monastery school, now the Konrad Duden School, and the Konrad Duden Museum are also located there.

Parks

The largest park in the city is the Kurpark (about 6.5 hectares) with the Kurhaus, Wandelhalle and spring pavilion. It has been part of the European Garden Heritage Network since 2009 . In the immediate vicinity of the old town is the Leonardt-Müller-Anlage, along the city wall, with the two north school ponds. There is also a park in the monastery district, which was expanded in 2006 to include a perennial garden . The perennial garden was modeled on a baroque garden that was located here in the mid-18th century. Both the spa gardens and the Leonardt Müller facility were redesigned between 2006 and 2007.

Other green spaces are the 15-hectare Fulda Park with Lake Fulda and the Carl Strauss facility on the Kleinshöhe on the Tagberg with the Robert Heil Tower, a viewing tower built in 1930 .

Green areas of the monastery grounds

Monuments

Duden-Zuse monument

Stumbling blocks for Bertha, Helma, Adolf and Hansi Schmidt in Klausstraße 18

In Bad Hersfeld there are monuments that go back to the Middle Ages. The Vitalis cross in the Leonardt-Müller facility reminds of the abbot's attack on the city on Vitalis Night in 1378. Since 1866 a stone bishop's figure on the Lullus fountain in front of the town hall has been a reminder of the city's founder. The savior of Hersfeld in the fourth coalition war , Johann Baptist Lingg von Linggenfeld , was placed a statue on the Lingplatz named after him in 1896. A bronze sculpture by Arnold Rechberg on Rathausplatz has been commemorating the dead of the First World War since 1925 .

Newer monuments in the city are the figure group Mückenstürmer on Linggplatz from 2003, which has the origin of the nickname of the Hersfelders as a theme, the bronze monument for Konrad Duden and Konrad Zuse in the monastery district from 2005 and 43 so-called Stolpersteine , the on September 6, 2010 and March 29, 2011, have since commemorated Hersfeld Jews who were victims of the Holocaust .

There is also a monument to the Schwarzburgbund .

Sports

In addition to the football clubs in many parts of the city, there is the SVA Bad Hersfeld club , which plays with its first team in the Association League Hessen North in the 2008/2009 season . The 2nd team plays in the district league Fulda Nord and the A-Juniors are already in the third year of the Hyundai Oberliga Hessen. Other ball sports are offered by the Turnverein Hersfeld 1848 e. V. played, that includes handball, volleyball and basketball in addition to many other sports.

The team of SG Hessen Hersfeld played in the women's handball league from the 1997/1998 season to the 2002/2003 season .

The three rowing and canoe clubs Hersfelder Kanu-Club 1924 e. V., the canoe hiker Hersfeld 1986 e. V. and the Hersfelder Ruderverein 1977 e. V. develop their activities in summer mainly on the Fulda. The last-named club also practices competitive rowing.

With the Bad Hersfeld Raiders , Bad Hersfeld has an American football club that plays its games on the sports field at Eichhof .

In addition to the rifle clubs in almost every district, there is the Hersfeld Schützengilde 1252 e. V. It is one of the oldest still active clubs in Germany.

The Luftsportverein Bad Hersfeld e. V. has its glider airfield on the Langenberg near Hattenbach (district of Niederaula).

The riding and driving association Bad Hersfeld e. V. was founded in 1907. The association has been using private facilities on the Wehneberg farm since 1997. The Hof Wehneberg riding facility has two riding halls and a large outdoor area. The association organizes tournaments, courses and courses here.

The Motorsport Club Bad Hersfeld has been dedicated to motorsport since 1952. At the beginning, some field tests were organized, meanwhile the association holds annual grass track races on its own racetrack in the Fuldaaue, also with international participation. Some of the club's athletes were able to achieve national and international championship titles in various disciplines. This event has been taking place under floodlights for several years.

The Hersfelder Wanderverein e. V. was founded in 1885. He runs a hiking home, the Silberdistel house, on the Wehneberg. As his main tasks and goals, he sees the maintenance and promotion of hiking in the community, as well as the maintenance and care of the marked hiking trails around Bad Hersfeld.

In Bad Hersfeld there is a section of the German Alpine Club , the section house is in Kalkobes.

Regular events

The annual Bad Hersfeld Festival , Opera Festival, and festival concerts are known nationwide. They take place between June and August in the monastery ruins . Other larger musical events are the Bad Hersfeld Bach Days (every Easter in the Johann Sebastian Bach House), the Live Jazz Festival (every year on the first weekend in June on stages throughout the old town), and the StadtJugendNacht (annually on the first Saturday in September under the Peterstorbrücke) and the Metalfest (every year in the late year). A children's day with around 15,000 visitors a year always takes place on the first Saturday in September. The city center becomes a "big playground".

One of the oldest folk festivals in Germany is the Lullus Festival . It takes place every year on the week that October 16th falls. Other larger folk festivals are the shooting festival of the rifle's guild in Jägersgraben and the Tagbergfest of the volunteer fire brigade (forest festival in the open air). Sporting events include the Sauer Lollslauf, a marathon on the occasion of the Lullus Festival, and the International Bad Hersfeld DMV floodlight race, which is held every summer by the Motorsportclub Bad Hersfeld e. V. is held on a 500 m long grass runway. The same association organizes an international Opel meeting every year on the last weekend in June .

Every year in January the show "Sport & Show" takes place in the Waldhessenhalle. Over 200 athletes, artists and musicians from all over Europe perform in the three-hour show. What began as a sports press show in Hohenroda in 1975 now attracts 7,000 viewers a year.

Most of the city's markets are held on Linggplatz. The weekly market takes place twice a week and a flea and flea market takes place every first Saturday from April to October. Other annual markets are the Easter market on the Wednesday before the Easter holidays, the Pentecost market on the Wednesday before the Pentecost holidays, the Great Lulluskrammarkt on Wednesday during the Lullus festival week and the autumn market on the Day of Repentance and Prayer. Another tradition is the Bad Hersfeld Christmas market of 10,000 lights on Linggplatz.

On November 8, 1938, the synagogue in Bad Hersfeld was burned down. This made Bad Hersfeld the first city in Germany where a Jewish house of worship was destroyed as part of the November pogroms in 1938 . Every year a commemoration ceremony is held to commemorate this outrage , organized by the Bad Hersfeld Christian Churches Working Group.

economy

Regional planning

The city is classified in the State Development Plan of Hesse as a medium-sized center with partial function of a regional center . The city maintains a large volunteer fire brigade that is also deployed nationwide. In addition to the urban area, it is also responsible for parts of the A 4 and A 7 motorways and supports the surrounding communities in deploying special vehicles such as turntable ladders as well as equipment and equipment vehicles.

Established businesses

The oldest branch in Bad Hersfeld, textile production, is DuraFiber Technologies (former Hoechst plant ), which produces high-strength polyester fibers . Other long-established family businesses are Lorenz Mohr GmbH & Co. KG (mineral oil trader and operator of LOMO gas stations, after the bankruptcy in July 2008 there are still 17 gas stations and a truck stop with the brand name LOMO) and the civil engineering company Kirchner Holding GmbH, which has been majority owned by Strabag SE since 2008 .

EMS ( Electronic Manufacturing Services ) service providers Asteelflash Hersfeld GmbH, (formerly Zuse KG , later Siemens AG , then KRONE Kommunikationstechnik GmbH, EZH GmbH, EN ElectronicNetwork Hersfeld GmbH) and Verifone GmbH work in the field of electronics . (Takeover of Thales e-Transactions GmbH) which manufactures electronic payment systems, and from the field of mechanical engineering and process engineering are the companies Grenzebach-BSH GmbH (located in the buildings of Schilde AG until 2009 ), Linde Ladenbau GmbH & Co. KG , of TLT-Turbo GmbH and TROX-TLT GmbH. The logistics industry mainly settled here only after reunification . Following amazon.de and the Libri company , which is active in the intermediate book trade , the electronics retailer RS Components has also set up its European hub in Bad Hersfeld.

Another important economic factor is the hospital system, which in part also supports the spa business. There are the following hospitals and clinics in the city: The Bad Hersfeld Clinic is mainly active in the field of general medicine. There are also the spa clinics, Klinik im Kurpark (clinic for psychosomatics and orthopedics), Fachklinik Wigbertshöhe (clinic for socio-psychosomatic diseases), Klinik am Hainberg (clinic for psychosomatics and psychotherapy), Vitalisklinik (clinic for digestive and metabolic diseases) and the orthopedic acute clinic .

The largest credit institute based here is the Sparkasse Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg . The largest local cooperative bank is VR-Bankverein Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg eG.

In 2014, six wind turbines were built in the area of the Wehneberg on the northern outskirts of the city. The local municipal utilities generate electricity from hydropower at a weir in the course of the Fulda.

traffic

Trunk roads

This is where the north-south motorways 5 (from Hattenbach to Basel ) and 7 (from Flensburg to Füssen ) meet with the west-east motorway 4 (from Aachen to Görlitz ) at the Kirchheim and Hattenbach motorway triangles .

Furthermore, the federal highway 27 running in the north-south direction (from the Harz to Lake Constance ) and the federal highway 62 running in the west-east direction (from Marburg to Bad Salzungen ) play an important role. The B 324 serves as a feeder road to the federal motorway 7. All three federal roads meet in Bad Hersfeld.

railroad

Station forecourt

The Bad Hersfeld train station is on the (Kassel–) Bebra – Fulda railway line . There is an IC / ICE connection from Frankfurt am Main Airport to Dresden every two hours .

The regional traffic is ordered by the North Hessian Transport Association . Regional trains of the Cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft run every hour to Kassel and Fulda, among others, and occasionally to Göttingen .

The Knüllwaldbahn branches off south of the Hersfeld train station . The passenger traffic last operated on the Bad Hersfeld – Niederaula section was discontinued in 1984, but the route is still used for freight traffic. The Hersfelder Kreisbahn from Bad Hersfeld to Philippsthal operated by the Hersfeld Railway Company was discontinued in 1993, and the section to Schenklengsfeld has been converted into a cycle path .

Public transport

The Public transport is by the North Hessian traffic group guaranteed (NPT). The seven city bus routes and five intercity routes are operated by RhönEnergie . Six more overland lines are served by the RKH . All lines to the surrounding communities are connected to the railway at the station. The city bus lines meet every 30 minutes at the central bus stop on Breitenstrasse.

Biking and hiking trails

Marking of the "Great Bad Hersfeld Hiking Trail"

Due to the location between the foothills of three wooded low mountain ranges, the Knüllgebirge , the Seulingswald and the Rhön , there is a well-developed network of cycling and hiking trails. In addition to shorter and longer regional routes (e.g. the Großer Bad Hersfelder Wanderweg, a circular route through all parts of the city, with a length of 52 kilometers, it overcomes a gradient of around 1110 meters in altitude), the Hessian and German long-distance cycle routes are particularly worth mentioning here. In detail these are:

The Hessian Radfernweg R1 (Fulda-Radweg) leads over 250 km from the heights of the Rhön along the Fulda to Bad Karlshafen on the Weser .
The Hessian long-distance cycle path R7 (from the Lahn to the Werra) leads over 215 km through the Lahn valley , the Vogelsberg and the Fulda valley .

The Hessen Railway Cycle Route leads from Hanau on former railway lines for approx. 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön and ends in Bad Hersfeld.

The D-Route 9 (Weser-Romantic Road) leads from the North Sea via Bremen, Kassel, Fulda and the Taubertal to Füssen in Allgäu (1,197 km).

Supraregional hiking trails are the Wildbahn (X 3) , the Lulluspfad (X 16) , the Fuldahöhenweg (X 17), the Fuldatalweg (F 60) and the Kurz Hessen (+ 36). In addition to the city, many of these trails are maintained by the Hersfeld hiking club, the Knüllgebirgsverein and the Rhönklub .

Air traffic

The airfield Johannesberg has the status of a special landing site . The asphalt runway, which is about 671 meters long and 18 meters wide, faces north-south. The airfield is located on the Johannesberg in the district of the same name, at 284 m above sea level. NN .

The airfield was laid out by the US Army between 1952 and 1953 and belonged to the McPheeters barracks in the Hohe Luft district . It was called US Army Airfield Werve-Thompson. After the US Army withdrew in 1993, the airfield was taken over by the Motor-Flieger-Club e. V. Bad Hersfeld taken over.

Culture

music

Every year after the festival, the Bad Hersfeld Opera Festival takes place in the monastery ruins. During the festival season, the Arbeitskreis für Musik e. V. since 1961 the Bad Hersfeld festival concerts in the monastery ruins, the town hall and in the Johann Sebastian Bach House. Furthermore, seasonal concerts take place in the town hall and in the Johann Sebastian Bach House all year round. These include For example, the International Bach Days in Hesse and Thuringia, where great choral works and chamber music treasures are performed every year during Holy Week and at Easter.

Furthermore, the jazz festival takes place every year on the first weekend in June. National and international stars as well as groups from the city itself enliven the city with swing, beats and blues for a whole weekend from morning until late in the evening. This festival has been a fixture of the year for many years and attracts numerous visitors from all over the world.

The annual Cross-Music-Metal-Fest takes place in autumn, with numerous hard rock and metal bands from all over the world. Since 2000 it has been held in late September or October and attracts visitors from all over Europe. In 2008 the Metalfest was held for the first time over two days.

media

The daily newspaper “ Hersfelder Zeitung ” (founded in 1763) and the free newspaper “Kreisanzeiger”, which appears twice a week (published since 1980), appear here. Both sheets have belonged to Dirk Ippen's publishing group since 2002 . An independent advertising newspaper, the "Klartext", appeared from August 2008 to the end of 2012. Since May 1, 2008, FantasticRadio Hersfeld has been broadcasting from the city.

Public facilities

In addition to the usual facilities of a district town (e.g. the Bad Hersfeld District Court, the Bad Hersfeld Labor Court also existed from 1923 to 2011 ) and the facilities already mentioned in the “Culture and Sights” chapter, there is the town hall, the book café (sponsor: Verein für Culture and Communication e.V.) and the Konrad-Duden-Stadtbibliothek. It was opened in March 1999 on the market square in Bad Hersfeld. The public library has a total area of around 1000 m². As of December 31, 2007, it held approximately 65,000 items and about 210,000 items are loaned out annually.

In the sports area there are two pools, the "Aqua Fit" (sports and family pool) and the "Kurbad Therme" (wellness pool) in the spa park. There is also the heated outdoor swimming pool Geistalbad. Many other sports can be practiced in the Jahn-Park (leisure and sports center), in the Nordic Walking Park and on the sports and tennis courts in Bad Hersfeld.

The inner-city Jahnpark was opened in 2000 and is a playground, sports and meeting place with mini golf, volleyball and basketball fields as well as numerous other sports and adventure facilities.

Spa operation:

Bad Hersfeld spa gardens

There are two healing fountains in Bad Hersfeld. Today's spa operation began with the renewed development of the Lullus spring in 1904, which had been known in documents since 1518, but was buried during a flood in the 17th century. The Vitalisbrunnen was drilled in 1949 and the city was elevated to the status of a “Bad Hersfeld” spa; Since 1963 Bad Hersfeld counts as "Hessisches Staatsbad". The water contains a lot of Glauber's salt . Until 2006, mineral water was also bottled under the name “Naturquellen Bad Hersfeld”. In 1997 the health resort was privatized, but in 2004, when the operator's assets collapsed, it was taken over again into the municipal management.

The spa is operated primarily through drinking cures and bathing cures, which are used for liver, bile, stomach, intestinal and metabolic diseases, for psychosomatic diseases, for diseases of the musculoskeletal system and for diseases of the rheumatic type. After the privatization of the spa business failed in 2005, the city took over the administration again.

Youth:

In addition to the various football and sports clubs, there is also the opportunity for young people to meet after school in one of the facilities of the Bad Hersfeld youth care center. One option here is the Bad Hersfeld youth center on Dippelstrasse, which is particularly popular with young people due to its numerous events.
The city youth group "SJR" Bad Hersfeld e. V. as a voluntary association of youth groups, initiatives, clubs and associations in the district town of Bad Hersfeld and currently has 27 members from various sports, music and cultural associations and is committed to the interests of young people. The SJR Bad Hersfeld e. V. sees itself as a lobbyist for young people by bundling the interests and concerns of young people and bringing them into the social discussion. B. in public, in politics or towards authorities.

education

There are three comprehensive schools in Bad Hersfeld . These are the Geistal Comprehensive School, the Obersberg Comprehensive School and the Konrad Duden School. The latter school was founded in 1570 by the Hersfeld abbot Michael as a monastery school. Since 1956 it has been called the "Old Monastery School", a grammar school for boys and an old-language grammar school. At the end of the 1960s, the Obersberg Model School (MSO) was built as a purely upper school school. The 1974 Abitur class was the last to go through the upper school without a course according to the old system. The certificate of this year received the note "Old monastery school in the model school Obersberg". This ended the existence of the traditional “old monastery school”. From 1876 to 1905 Konrad Duden was the director of what was then the Royal High School in Hersfeld, which was renamed from the Alte Klosterschule to the Konrad-Duden-Schule in 1980 in his honor.

The Obersberg model school offers a high school level as well as a commercial vocational school. The school for adults in Osthessen offers courses for obtaining the secondary school and secondary school leaving certificate as well as the technical college entrance qualification and the general university entrance qualification. There are also six primary schools . These are the Ernst von Harnack School, the An der Sommerseite Elementary School, the Sorga Elementary School, the Kolibri Elementary School, the Lingg School and the Wilhelm Neuhaus School. There is also a special school, the Friedrich Froebel School.

Furthermore, with the vocational schools of the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and the model school Obersberg (commercial vocational schools), two vocational schools are located in Bad Hersfeld. There is also the metal vocational training center and the training center for trade and services.

Further training and further education institutions are a branch of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen for the dual course in business administration, specializing in logistics management ( StudiumPlus ), evening schools for adults, the university of statutory accident insurance , the German salaried academy, the Evangelical youth training center in Frauenberg (sponsored by the Evangelical Church von Kurhessen-Waldeck ), the district adult education center and the music school of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Leonhard Müller monument on the city wall in the Leonhard Müller complex

Philipp Hafner (born January 8, 1854 - † November 3, 1937)

Senior Student Council i. R., privy councilor

Teacher at the old monastery school, made a name for himself through publications about the city and the monastery.

Awarded on December 13, 1932

Leonhard Müller (* 1799; † 1878),

Electoral Hessian land and road builder

Awarded in 1834

He took the first steps to preserve the ruins of the monastery , designed the Luis School and many other buildings in the city. In 1998 the park along the city wall was named after him.

Wilhelm Münscher (* 1795; † 1872),

High school director in Hersfeld from 1832 to 1867

Awarded in 1857

Carl Strauss (* July 27, 1857 - † April 4, 1937),

Mayor of Hersfeld between 1896 and 1916

Awarded in 1932

At the beginning of the 20th century, Strauss played a key role in the development of the city into a spa

Wilhelm Neuhaus (December 25, 1873 - December 16, 1956),

Teacher and vice-principal at the Protestant Citizens' School (former North School, today Froebel School) and later at the South School (it has been named after 1962), local history researcher

Awarded in 1948

sons and daughters of the town

Statue of Konrad Duden and Konrad Zuse in the monastery district

Johannes Nuhn (1442–1523), secular clergyman and chronicler from Hesse
Margarete Koch (around 1470 - 1537), traveling preacher of Anabaptism
Friedrich Risner (around 1533 - 1580), mathematician
Hermann Kirchner (1562–1620), poet, legal scholar and professor of history, poetics and rhetoric in Marburg
Heinrich Gutberleth (1572–1635), educator
Theodor Christoph Krug von Nidda (1653–1719), mining captain, physician and personal physician to the Great Elector
Hans Georg Alexander Friedrich von Köller (1752–1820), general landscape director of the Pomeranian landscape
Wilhelm von Bentheim (1768–1840), Prussian major general
Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar (1812–1887), organ virtuoso and composer
August J. Braun (1820–1879), politician, member of the Reichstag
Georg Hermann Braun (1824–1885), manor owner, politician, member of the Reichstag
Carl Vogel (1828–1897), topographer and cartographer
Adolf Ulrich (1829–1911), District Administrator of the Saarbrücken district
Karl Altmüller (1833–1880), lawyer and poet; from 1871 director of the Murhard library , poet of the Hessenlied : I know an expensive country
Karl Franz Wilhelm Schimmelpfeng (1841–1913), founder of the Schimmelpfennig credit agency
Franz Heussner (1842 – unknown), architect
Fritz Rechberg (1868–1939), entrepreneur and councilor of commerce
Eberhard von Mantey (1869–1940), Vice Admiral in World War I, head of the naval archives, naval historian and maritime publicist
Arnold Rechberg (1879–1947), co-owner, sculptor and politician
Jakob Göbel (1887–1979), politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
Georg August Moeller (1898–1945), businessman, major, rescuer of the town of Bad Hersfeld from destruction by American troops on March 31, 1945, died on October 21, 1945 in American captivity, buried in Noyers-Pont-Maugis, France.
Lisa Schmidt (1893–1969), author, recipient of Rilke's letters to a young woman, also published her own letters to Rilke, married to the painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Heise
Paul Zapp (1904–1999), SS-Obersturmbannführer and war criminal
Franz Rös (1920–2011), Major General of the National People's Army
Fritz Peter Schäfer (1931–2011), physicist and professor for laser physics
Detlef Altenburg (1947–2016), musicologist
Reinhard Schmidt-Rost (* 1949), Protestant pastor, psychologist and university professor for practical theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Erich Hertel (* 1949), clergyman and 2006-2014 bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (DELK)
Helmut Balzert , (* 1950), holder of the chair for software technology in the faculty for electrical engineering and information technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum
Heinrich Fischer (* 1951), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
Thomas Phleps (1955–2017), guitarist and musicologist
Elmar Kulke (* 1958), geographer
Marjana Schott (* 1958), member of the Hessian state parliament (Die Linke)
Friederike Herrmann (* 1960), media scientist and professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Holger Ehling (* 1961), journalist and author
Verena Koch (* 1961), stage actress and director
Sabine Kurtz (* 1961), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
Thomas Hentschel (* 1964), politician, member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Werner L. Maier (* 1966), lawyer and president of the Munich Cowboys
Dirk Müller (* 1973), racing cyclist, 2006 German road champion
Mirko Reeh (* 1976), cook
Mike Hairston (* 1977), handball player
Peter Becker (* 1979), actor
Florian Grafl (* 1982), chess player
Samia Dauenhauer (* 1984), actress
Sheila Gaff (* 1989), martial artist
Shkodran Mustafi (* 1992), football player (World Champion 2014)

Personalities who have worked in the city

Lullus (* around 710; † 786), first regular archbishop of Mainz and first abbot of the Hersfeld monastery
Lampert von Hersfeld (* before 1028; † before 1085), historian and dept
Johann Baptist Lingg von Linggenfeld (1765–1842), Lieutenant General, "Defender of Hersfeld"
Konrad Duden (1829–1911), from 1876 to 1905 director of the royal high school in Hersfeld
Wilhelm Engelhardt (1834–1895), brewer and city councilor in Hersfeld
Benno Schilde (1849–1911), inventor and founder of the mechanical engineering company Schilde AG
Michael Schnabrich (1880–1939), city councilor and Reichstag deputy for Hersfeld from 1924 to 1933, was murdered by the Nazis in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Wilhelm Auel (1888–1973), doctor
Max Becker (1888–1960), politician and one of the initiators of the Bad Hersfeld Festival
Johannes Klein (1897–1976), founder of the Bad Hersfeld Festival and its first director
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), engineer and computer pioneer; moved his company headquarters to Bad Hersfeld in 1957
Hans Arens (1911–2003) was a linguist and high school teacher at the old monastery school.
Burkard Krug (1930-2006); was a Protestant theology professor and long-time pastor at the town church in Bad Hersfeld
Siegfried Heinrich (* 1935), played a key role in the opera festival and festival concerts from 1961–2015 and initiated the construction of the Johann Sebastian Bach House
Reinhold Stanitzek (1939–2011), lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and head of the city council
Dieter Wedel (* 1942), reorientation of the Bad Hersfeld Festival as artistic director
Eckhard Weise (* 1949), educator and writer
Manfred Gruber (* 1951), painter, graphic artist and set designer, was equipment manager and chief set designer at the Bad Hersfeld Festival from 1978 to 1987/1988
Uwe Bein (* 1960), soccer player, soccer world champion 1990; today active in his soccer school and at SVA Bad Hersfeld, in 2005 manager at Kickers Offenbach

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

Arno Bingel: Hersfeld through the ages . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-410-6 (illustrated book).
Holger Th. Gräf (arrangement): Hessischer Städteatlas, delivery I, 2: Bad Hersfeld. Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, Marburg 2007.
Dieter Handtke: A nostalgic city tour through Bad Hersfeld . Ott-Verlag, Bad Hersfeld 1995.
Norbert Landeck, Michael Würz, Hermann-Josef Hohmann: Bad Hersfeld: AugenBlicke - pictures and stories . Ott-Verlag, Bad Hersfeld 2001, ISBN 978-3-9806842-2-4 (illustrated book).
Hersfeld . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 446.
Wilhelm Neuhaus: The story of Hersfeld . New edition for Hessentag 2019. Ed .: Heinz-Jörg Kretschmer. 3rd revised edition. Ott, Bad Hersfeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-9820068-1-9 (302 pages).
Wolfgang Wette: Modern building in a listed building - three examples from Bad Hersfeld . In: Die Gartenkunst 26 (2/2014), pp. 173–186.
Thomas Wiegand: Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Hersfeld Rotenburg III . City of Bad Hersfeld. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Vieweg + Teubner, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-528-06248-4 .
Waldemar Zillinger: Bad Hersfeld ( German country - German art ) . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3-422-00117-6 (illustrated book).

Web links

Commons : Bad Hersfeld - Collection of Images

Wikivoyage: Bad Hersfeld - travel guide

Wikisource: Bad Hersfeld in Merian's Topographia Hassiae - Sources and full texts

Wikinews: Bad Hersfeld - in the news

Wiktionary: Hersfeld - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Bad Hersfeld
Literature about Bad Hersfeld in the Hessian Bibliography
Link catalog on Bad Hersfeld at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

References and comments

↑ 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 ).

↑ As of March 4, 1949, Hersfeld is a therapeutic bath and may call itself Bad Hersfeld.

^ Peter Braun: 650 years of Oberrode. A property on the lower reaches of the Solz between Sorga and Bad Hersfeld. Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies e. V., Bad Hersfeld 2001, DNB 968576702 , pp. 19-23.

^ Klaus Walter: The geological structure of the Hersfeld district. In: My homeland. November 1961 Volume 19. (Supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung )

↑ Area of the city ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) at statistik-hessen.de according to the Hessian municipal statistics edition 2009 (accessed on November 16, 2010)@1@ 2

↑ Land use of the city ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) at statistik-hessen.de according to the Hessian municipal statistics edition 2009 (accessed on November 16, 2010)@1@ 2

^ Forester's House Mönches, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

↑ Max / Min temperatures from MSN Weather - Bad Hersfeld, DEU

↑ Monthly average temperatures, precipitation and hours of sunshine (normal period 1961–1990) Data from DWD (hours of sunshine averaged by 30)

↑ wetterkontor.de

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^ Meisebach, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 1, 2015 .

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↑ Background: As if Philippsthal were gone. In: Hersfelder Zeitung. February 9, 2007; see also: Population forecast for the Hessian districts and independent cities. ( Memento from October 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: hessen-nachhaltig.de

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^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

↑ UBH on the Internet

^ NBL on the Internet ( Memento from June 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ A wafer-thin majority in the city parliament: Prof. SEITZ (SPD) next chairman - GRIMM (CDU) new 1st city council // East Hesse | News. In: osthessen-news.de. Retrieved April 28, 2016 .

↑ CDU says no to grand coalition. In: http://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de/ . Retrieved April 28, 2016 .

↑ Thomas Fehling new mayor in Bad Hersfeld. In: Hersfelder Zeitung. November 21, 2010.

↑ PC-Wahl HTML-Modul, vote iT GmbH: Election result BÜRGERMEISTERDIREKTWAHL 2016. Accessed on February 15, 2018 .

↑ Data on the direct elections of the mayor in Bad Hersfeld

↑ US LOCATION: Farewell Russian champagne. In: Focus. No. 48 (1993). It says "At no time did we have the image of a garrison town that hosted foreign troops, knows SPD Mayor Walter Weiss, 46." Accessed on March 9, 2010.

^ Klemens Stadler : The municipal coat of arms of the state of Hesse . New edition of the collection of German local coats of arms by Prof. Otto Hupp on behalf of HAG Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen, edited by Dr. Klemens Stadler, drawings by Max Reinhart (= German coat of arms - Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3 ). Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 17 .

↑ The text by Fabronius read: "Hirssfeld the town a Creutz in the shield, next to it a lion leads wild." In Creutz and Leyd, Loewen have courage, And trust God, it will be well.

↑ Martin Schuster: The Hersfeld coat of arms and its appearance on Hessian coins. In: My homeland. January 1993 Volume 35. (Supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung)

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^ Twin town Bad Hersfeld. Bad Salzungen city administration, accessed on February 21, 2013 .

↑ Karin Rolle: On the new beginning of the twin towns Sumperk and Bad Hersfeld, from January 8, 2005. Radio Prague, accessed on February 21, 2013 .

↑ Town twinning of the county town of Bad Hersfeld: Malmsbury , reference on the town's website, viewed October 20, 2019

↑ Fresh to new shores. In: Hersfelder Zeitung. 5th July 2010.

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↑ wortreich-badhersfeld.de. Accessed October 3, 2011

↑ according to an article in the Hersfelder Zeitung by Johannes van Horrick (monument conservator of the city of Bad Hersfeld) on January 15, 2007.

↑ Information board on site

^ Robert Heil Tower, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: "Portrait of the Resurrection" and a youth certain of victory. Memorial sites in Bad Hersfeld and Friedewald with sculptures by Arnold Rechberg . In: Hessische Heimat, 2017, issue 2 (in press).

↑ Here is a small photo and a report about the origin of the name in 1674

^ Heinrich Nuhn: Stolpersteine for Rosa Hahn and 14 other Hersfeld victims of the Holocaust. PDF file

^ Heinrich Nuhn: In Memoriam. 28 Hersfeld victims of the Holocaust. PDF file

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↑ Where we are. Amazon locations in Germany

↑ July 26, 2014

↑ ^a ^b Obersberg model school

↑ Bad Hersfeld from today university location. In: Hersfelder Zeitung. October 6, 2010.

↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg. III, Vieweg, Braunschweig a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-528-06248-7 , p. 97.

↑ glottopedia.org Hans Arens on glottopedia.org, accessed November 20, 2013.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-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] As of March 4, 1949, Hersfeld is a therapeutic bath and may call itself Bad Hersfeld.

[3] Peter Braun: 650 years of Oberrode. A property on the lower reaches of the Solz between Sorga and Bad Hersfeld. Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies e. V., Bad Hersfeld 2001, DNB 968576702 , pp. 19-23.

[4] Klaus Walter: The geological structure of the Hersfeld district. In: My homeland. November 1961 Volume 19. (Supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung )