Bad Nenndorf

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Schaumburg
Joint municipality :	Nenndorf
Height :	88 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.21 km 2
Residents:	11,226 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	484 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31542
Area code :	05723
License plate :	SHG, RI
Community key :	03 2 57 006
City structure:	4 districts
City administration address :	Rodenberger Allee 13 31542 Bad Nenndorf
Website :	www.nenndorf.de/stadt-bad-nenndorf/
Mayoress :	Marlies Matthias ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Nenndorf in the Schaumburg district

Bad Nenndorf is a town in the east of the Schaumburg district and west of Hanover in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Bad Nenndorf is located on the north-western edge of the Deister and 15 km south of the Steinhuder Sea , between the Weser and Leine , at the transition from the low mountain range to the North German Plain , 26 km west of Hanover .

Neighboring communities

Clockwise, the neighboring communities of Bad Nenndorf are the communities of Hohnhorst and Suthfeld , the cities of Barsinghausen and Rodenberg , and the communities of Beckedorf , Lindhorst and Auhagen .

City structure

Old mill in the Waltringhausen district

The town of Bad Nenndorf is made up of the core town of Bad Nenndorf and the districts of Waltringhausen with the Bückethaler Landwehr , Horsten with the Horster Mühle and Riepen. It is part of the joint municipality of Nenndorf .

The population was 10,876 on December 31, 2012, an increase of 176 over the previous year. These are spread over Bad Nenndorf with 8709, Waltringhausen with 1332, Horsten with 214 and Riepen with 621 inhabitants.

history

The village on the north-western edge of the Deister , which was probably built at the beginning of the 9th century, was first mentioned in 936 as Nyanthorpe ("New Village") in the documents of the Corvey Monastery .

In 1136 the first church was built and in 1150 the place was called Niendorpe . After a small settlement had emerged southwest of the town, a distinction was made in future between Groß Nenndorf and Klein Nenndorf. Another settlement in today's urban area called Densinghausen was wiped out in the Thirty Years War . Since the division of the county of Schaumburg in 1647, Nenndorf belonged to Hessen-Kassel .

spa

The healing power of the sulfur springs , first documented in 1546 on the so-called "Dübelsdreck" , located between Groß and Klein Nenndorf, were later used by the rural population for healing purposes.

Monument erected in 1911 for Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel as founder of the Bad Nenndorf in 1787

According to a medical report from the University of Rinteln , it was framed by the Hessian Landgrave Friedrich II . Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel personally convinced himself of the value of the sulfur spring in 1786 and founded the "Guts Bezirk Nendorff" with the bathing facilities and the spa gardens in 1787 according to an overall plan by the court architect Simon Louis du Ry . The first well doctor was the Rinteln medical professor Ludwig Philipp Schröter, who made the new bath known through publications.

The stay also became more interesting when gambling was licensed for the first time in 1787 . Pharo was mainly played , initially in the rooms of a pharmacy, where coffee and cocoa were also served. Around 1840 a game room was set up in a room in the arcade building, which was soon moved to the gallery. The tenant Dr. Biermann (from 1848), formerly employed by François Blanc , paid 200  louis d'or lease and 1000 thalers to beautify the place. The contract should run for six years. The game was recorded in the former theater, where people danced once a week. In addition to Pharo, the upcoming Trente et quarante was also offered . The minimum bet was 10  silver groschen. Game operations were interrupted from 1849-52, initially due to the prohibition of the Paulskirche assembly and then due to irregularities. Lieutenant Schönewolf then became co-owner. When the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I was in town in 1863, he closed the casino.

The sulfur springs are among the strongest in Europe and have been used with great success for rheumatism , gout and skin diseases. Soon Nenndorf was one of the leading German spas. In 1806 the Landgrave had a summer residence built in the classical style, the so-called Schlößchen (Lodge), where he and his successors resided during numerous stays in Nenndorf. In 1866 Bad Nenndorf became the Royal Prussian State Bath and was able to expand further thanks to financial support from Berlin.

19th century

Bad Nenndorf am Galenberg

The geographical location also had a very positive effect on the development of the place. On the northern edge of the German low mountain range Bad Nenndorf lies on a Rhine - Elbe connection, the Hellweg , which has been used for centuries , and so the place was connected to the railway network (1847 in Haste and 1872 in Nenndorf), the Mittelland Canal (in Haste 1916) and the Autobahn (1939).

Already in the days of the Electorate of Hesse there were regulations to secure property against accidents on the part of the elements. According to an ordinance of the electoral government commission in Rinteln on May 22, 1858, every inhabitant of the Grafschaft Schaumburg was obliged to help fight a fire if a fire broke out. Mayors and local councils were instructed to appoint residents to submit the traditional fire signs, to assign several fire riders and fire runners and to ensure that they were properly staffed in places where syringes were available. On the basis of these orders, a voluntary fire brigade was founded through cooperation between the state baths and the two communities Groß- and Klein-Nenndorf .

On June 6, 1880, the first discussions about measures for effective fire protection took place. The representatives of the state baths and the two Nenndorfer communities were certainly still aware of the inadequate relief measures during the fire in the large lodging house on July 20, 1874. Despite great efforts, the building had burned to the ground. In addition, in 1873 water-bearing fissures were dug in the Bantorf mine and therefore the Nenndorf water levels were constantly lower. All but two of the wells between Groß-Nenndorf and the Landwehr had dried up. During the negotiations on June 6, 1880, it was agreed that the inadequate extinguishing equipment would be completed by the state baths and that the fire fighting teams would be provided by the two communities.

The pool attendant Martin Heinrich Heckmann was appointed the first service leader and immediately started setting up and training the fire brigade. As can be read from the chronicle, Heckmann had led the fire brigade in strict discipline and order according to military principles.

20th century

In 1929 the community of Bad Nenndorf was created through the merger of the towns of Groß Nenndorf and Klein Nenndorf with the Bad Nenndorf estate.

At the time of National Socialism , the spa facilities in Bad Nenndorf were redesigned according to the planning and construction supervision of the architect Otto Hodler .

Internment camp

Facade of the Wincklerbad, 1945–1947 British internment camp Bad Nenndorf

→ Main article : Internment camp Bad Nenndorf

After the Second World War , the British Rhine Army operated the Bad Nenndorf internment camp from 1945 to 1947 in the Bad Nenndorf bathhouse, the Wincklerbad , and adjacent buildings . The internment camp was a strictly shielded secret prison of the British military secret service, in which a total of 372 men and 44 women were detained and interrogated. Among them were first high and highest functionaries of the NSDAP, diplomats, officers of the Abwehr and all parts of the Wehrmacht, later also “small fish”, such as cross-border commuters who were accused of espionage for the Soviet Union, and communists. In the spring of 1947, it was leaked that the facility was in dire straits and was closed after German and British interventions.

Since 2006, the neo-Nazi scene has been holding so-called funeral marches to the Wincklerbad every August in Bad Nenndorf , announced until 2030. The tenor of this is the commemoration of the "victims of the Allied torture camp in Wincklerbad". Citizens in Bad Nenndorf founded out of concern that Bad Nenndorf was developing into a meeting place for the right-wing scene, the Bad Nenndorf alliance is colorful . The association organizes the annual demonstrations of the right-wing scene each counter-demonstrations. Since thousands of police officers are deployed to protect the gatherings, a state of emergency prevails on the day of the event. In 2016, for the first time in ten years, a march could no longer be organized, which is why the counter-event was converted into a celebration.

21st century

On January 1, 2000 Bad Nenndorf was granted city rights.

In January 2005, large parts of the state spa were handed over by the state of Lower Saxony to the city of Bad Nenndorf. With declining numbers of spa guests, the Staatsbad faces an uncertain future. Unaffected by this, the city continues to expand as a popular place to live in a beautiful landscape with convenient transport connections.

On May 25, 2009, the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .

Religions

• The St. Godehardi parish belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Grafschaft Schaumburg. It includes the towns of Bad Nenndorf, Horsten, Waltringhausen and the villages of Riehe and Kreuzriehe in the municipality of Suthfeld .
• The Roman Catholic parish Maria of the Holy Rosary belongs to the Dean's Office of the Weserbergland diocese of Hildesheim .
• New Apostolic Congregation Bad Nenndorf
• Jewish community Bad Nenndorf (88 members)

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Horsten, Riepen and Waltringhausen were incorporated.

politics

Municipal election 2016

Turnout: 55.14%

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40

30th

20th

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33.9%

31.7%

20.5%

7.4%

3.4%

3.1%

CDU

SPD

WGN

Green

FDP

left

City council

The council of the city of Bad Nenndorf consists of 27 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population between 10,001 and 11,000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	33.88%	9
SPD	31.68%	9
WG Nenndorf	20.47%	5
Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.44%	2
FDP	3.39%	1
The left	3.10%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 55.14%, just below the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. The city council of Bad Nenndorf consists of 26 councilors.

Mayor / Administration

Marlies Matthias (CDU) has been mayor since 2016. Mayor Mike Schmidt (CDU) has been appointed city director.

Town twinning

The city has twinned cities with Doudeville in France and Gdów in Poland (as of 2015).

Culture and sights

In 2016 in front of the house in Kassel at the Kurpark, a fountain sculpture “Großer Abwasch” by the artist Timm Ulrichs was installed

theatre

• The Ohndorf Theater is an amateur drama group.
• The theater box Waltringhausen prefers humorous performances.

tradition

• The Nenndorfer red coats are a traditional costume dance group that is present at many events in the area.
• The traditional costume group Niendärsche Kaumelkers from Horsten presents traditional costumes and organizes folklore excursions into the past.

Museums

• Agnes Miegel House

music

• The “Kultur-Forum” and the supporting “Kultur-Forum & friends” engage outstanding artists and provide numerous live concerts of various musical styles.
• Ferdy Doernberg (an international musician, singer / songwriter & producer residing in Bad Nenndorf)
• The happy dozen presents hits and folk music.
• Bad Nenndorf Boys (Ska-Punk-Band from Bad Nenndorf)
• Bad Nenndorf brass orchestra
• Male choir with shanty choir, sings in a choir community with the male choirs Rehren and Ohndorf.

Regular events

Festival of lights in the spa gardens

• Garden dreams with moor tub races in the spa gardens (March)
• Kurpark run in June
• Cultural festival “Bad Nenndorf is colorful” in June
• Shooting festival in July
• Shooting and village community festival in Horsten in August
• Festival of lights ( illumination of the spa gardens) and gourmet festival in August
• Farmer's market in October
• Harvest festivals in Waltringhausen and Riepen in September
• Christmas market in December in Bad Nenndorf in the spa gardens
• Christmas market in Waltringhausen at the Radbachtreff (formerly bell tower)

Buildings

former sulfur bath house, now a hotel

Well temple in front of the esplanade

Süntelbuchenallee in the spa park

• Evangelical St. Godehardi Church, built 1848–1853, architects: Julius Eugen Ruhl and Johann Philipp Lichtenberg
• Catholic Church of Mary of St. Rosary , built in 1896/1954/1999
• Kurapotheke, oldest building in Bad Nenndorf, once a hunting lodge of Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe , moved here in 1790
• Hotel Esplanade, a former sulfur bathhouse in the spa park, built in 1906
• Castle in the spa park, built in 1806
• House Kassel in the spa gardens, built 1790–1791 by Simon Louis du Ry , expanded in 1929
• Landgrave house in the spa gardens, built 1791–1792 by Simon Louis du Ry, damaged by fire in 1934, renovated in 1936
• Well temple above the sulfur spring in the spa gardens, built in 1842, symbol of Bad Nenndorf

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  St. Godehardi Church

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  Museum Agnes Miegel House

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  Landgrave House

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  Castle

See also : the list of architectural monuments in Bad Nenndorf

Parks

• Bad Nenndorf has a 34  ha large remarkable spa park with historic buildings and a 200 year old trees. Unique in Germany is the small Süntelbuchenallee on the western edge of the spa park, which consists of almost 100 rare Süntelbuchen .
• The Vogelpark am Krater was a small bird park near a source on the B65 in the direction of Stadthagen.

Avenues

• In Bad Nenndorf there are two representative avenues, the Rodenberger Allee and the Buchenallee. Both avenues were created in connection with the expansion of the “Nendorf sulfur bath” at the end of the 18th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Station building with restaurant

Bad Nenndorf is on the BAB 2 and on the federal roads 65 and 442 .

The Bad Nenndorf stop on the Deisterbahn of the Hanover S-Bahn is served by the S 1 and S 2 lines. In terms of tariffs, the place is in Zone C of the greater Hanover traffic . Passenger traffic on the former Bad Münder – Bad Nenndorf railway was discontinued in 1968.

There are bus connections in the direction of Haste, Lauenau, Rinteln, Stadthagen and Empelde. In addition, from March to October Bad Nenndorf is served once a week by the “Westliche Heilbäder” Berlin - Horn / Bad Meinberg bus.

Within the urban area, with a dangling into the Hohnhorst district of Ohndorf , the citizen bus association operates a line network with 26 stops.

The Hannover-Langenhagen Airport is reachable by car in 30 minutes.

Resident companies of supraregional importance

• Bioclimatic GmbH (air treatment and disinfection systems)
• Scaffolding Wilhelm Kunkel GmbH
• Möbel Heinrich GmbH & Co. KG
• Knoche Maschinenbau GmbH (for agricultural equipment)

media

• DSG DLRG Service Gesellschaft mbH
• Schaumburger Nachrichten , seat of a local editorial office
• Schaumburger Wochenblatt, advertising paper, appears twice a week

Public facilities

• Federal office of the German Life Saving Society ( DLRG ), seat of the DLRG Presidium . Connected to this is the DLRG educational center and an associated conference hotel.
• Evangelical kindergarten, 7 integrated community kindergartens and one forest kindergarten
• Evangelical parish (St. Godehardi) with parish hall ("House of Encounter").
• Catholic parish (St. Mary of the Holy Rosary).
• New Apostolic Congregation
• Youth center in the multi-generation house (formerly a clubhouse).
• THW practice area of ​​the Bremen State Association, Lower Saxony.
• Office for Animal Welfare

Clinics

• Clinic Lower Saxony, rehabilitation clinic for neurology, neuro-orthopedics, clinical neuropsychology, orthopedics, internal medicine, angiology and rheumatology, neurological, internal and orthopedic private outpatient clinic.
• Landgrave Clinic Bad Nenndorf, specialist rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics and trauma surgery with an outpatient therapy center.

sport and freetime

• Landgrafentherme, thermal brine bath, indoor and outdoor pools with various saunas
• Indoor swimming pool with solarium and sauna in Bad Nenndorf
• Sports center in Bad Nenndorf with several courts and halls
• Sports park (tennis hall, badminton etc.)
• Sports halls and fields in Riepen and Waltringhausen
• Tennis courts in Bad Nenndorf, Riepen and Waltringhausen
• 3 boules courts in the spa gardens, 1 boules court in Waltringhausen
• 1 mini golf course
• Kurtheater with Kurlichtspiele
• Meeting house with a public evangelical library
• Catholic library
• Indoor soccer hall in Bad Nenndorf
• VfL Dorado
• Shooting ranges of the rifle club in the multi-generation house and on the Cecilienhöhe.

education

• “Berlin School”, elementary school in Bad Nenndorf
• CJD School Schlaffhorst-Andersen Bad Nenndorf (training center for state-certified breathing, speaking and voice teachers)
• Gymnasium Bad Nenndorf (European school, has contact with six other European countries, including Belgium and France)
• "DLRG Bildungswerk" (joint training, advanced and advanced training facility of the DLRG)
• A private music school has settled in the Kurhaus.

Personalities

• Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel (1743-1821) was the founder of the spa in 1787.
• Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), King of Westphalia (1807–1813), often stayed in Bad Nenndorf for a cure during his reign. He introduced mud bathing and expanded the spa facilities (construction of the mud bath in 1809).
• Victor von Podbielski (1844–1916), Prussian Minister of Agriculture at the beginning of the 20th century, was responsible for large investments by the Prussian state in Bad Nenndorf, including the construction of the esplanade and the expansion of the spa gardens. The grateful residents erected a memorial in his honor in 1906.
• Carl Thon (1867–1955), fountain gardener and dendrologist , was responsible for the spa gardens for 55 years and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1955 . Among other things, he created the alder grounds , the Kugelahornallee ("Bubikopfallee"), the Süntelbuchenallee and the Sonnengarten.
• Axel Winckler (1852–1934), leading German balneologist and conducting fountain doctor in Bad Nenndorf from 1898 to 1934, was responsible for the considerable expansion of the spa facilities and improvements to the spa treatments.
• Arrien Evers (1904–2001), leading German balneologist, Nenndorf conducting fountain doctor, founder (1936) and long-time director of the balneological institute of the Nenndorf state spa.
• The East Prussian poet Agnes Miegel (1879–1964) lived in Bad Nenndorf from 1948 to 1964. Her former home is now the seat of the Agnes Miegel Society . She has been an honorary citizen of the city since 1954.
• Ernst Blumenberg (1888–1973), Jewish doctor from 1929 to 1937 and made a contribution to the Nenndorfer workforce; Memorial plaque on the house on Hauptstrasse since 1989
• Martin Doernberg (1920–2013), Protestant pastor of the nearby parishes of Bantorf and Hohenbostel (1970–1985), violinist and composer, lived in Bad Nenndorf since the 1960s.
• Dieter Hecking (* 1964), former professional soccer player and Bundesliga coach.

literature

• Ute Brüdermann: The Schaumburger Land. A travel guide to art and culture . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2016, pp. 88–95.
• Karljo Kreter , in cooperation with the Dr.-Blumenberg-Initiative: Bad Nenndorf in the Third Reich. Life paths of the Nenndorfer Jewish faith. Self-published , Hanover / Bad Nenndorf 1987.
• 100 years of the Bad Nenndorf volunteer fire brigade. (Festschrift) Bad Nenndorf 1980.

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Bad Nenndorf  - travel guide

• official homepage
• Plan of the sulfur bath from 1801
• Plan of the sulfur bath from 1817
• Plan of the location of the mineral springs from 1790

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Lohner, Henry; Only those who are dead no longer take any risks . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012; ISBN 978-3-8448-0977-0 ; Pp. 79-80
3. ↑ Willi cheese: History of the bath nominal village , State Badeverwaltung bath nominal village (eds.), 1937, p.68 f.
4. ↑ In detail: Matthias Blazek: Fire brigade in the district of Schaumburg in the 19th century. 2nd updated and supplemented edition, Adelheidsdorf 2002, p. 32 ff.
5. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. 2nd, revised edition, Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim . ( limited preview for Google Books )
6. ↑ Utz Anhalt, Steffen wood: The forbidden village. The Wincklerbad interrogation center of the British occupying forces in Bad Nenndorf 1945–1947. Offizin, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-930345-90-8 .
7. ↑ Angelika Henkel, Stefan Schölermann: Bad Nenndorf defends itself against the right. ndr.de, July 2, 2012, accessed on July 25, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Kai Budler: Bad Nenndorf 2013: Nazi rally through the back alley? Publikative.org, July 23, 2013, accessed July 25, 2013 . 
9. ^ Stefan Schölermann: Bad Nenndorf celebrates its victory over the right , NDR.de from August 6, 2016; accessed on August 11, 2016
10. ^ History. In: nenndorf.de. City of Bad Nenndorf, accessed on October 14, 2017 . 
11. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 192 .
12. ↑ ^{a b c} City of Bad Nenndorf - overall results of the city council election 2016 , accessed on April 1, 2017.
13. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 1, 2017.
14. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed April 1, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Political Groups : Councils - Selection. In: Official website of the Samtgemeinde Nenndorf. Samtgemeinde Nenndorf, accessed on June 17, 2017 . 
16. ↑ town twinning. In: nenndorf.de. Retrieved April 9, 2018 . 
17. ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 221f.
18. ^ Matthias Blazek: The Electorate of Hanover and the years of foreign rule 1803-1813. ibidem, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89821-777-4 , p. 31.
19. ^ Karljosef Kreter : Bad Nenndorf in the Third Reich. Life paths of the Nenndorfer Jewish faith. Bad Nenndorf 1987.