Bad Neustadt an der Saale

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Bad Neustadt an der Saale
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 10 ° 13 ′  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Rhön-Grabfeld
Height : 242 m above sea level NHN
Area : 36.9 km 2
Residents: 15,358 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 416 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97616
Area code : 09771
License plate : NES, CAN, MET
Community key : 09 6 73 114
City structure: 11 districts

City administration address : 		Rathausgasse 2
97616 Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale
Website : www.bad-neustadt.de
First Mayor : Michael Werner ( FWG )
Location of the city of Bad Neustadt ad Saale in the Rhön-Grabfeld district
Fladungen Hausen (Rhön) Bundorfer Forst Burgwallbacher Forst Forst Schmalwasser-Nord Forst Schmalwasser-Süd Mellrichstadter Forst Steinacher Forst rechts der Saale Sulzfelder Forst Weigler Willmars Nordheim vor der Rhön Sondheim vor der Rhön Stockheim (Unterfranken) Mellrichstadt Mellrichstadt Ostheim vor der Rhön Oberelsbach Bischofsheim in der Rhön Bischofsheim in der Rhön Sandberg Schönau an der Brend Hohenroth Niederlauer Burglauer Strahlungen Salz (Unterfranken) Bastheim Oberstreu Unsleben Wollbach (Unterfranken) Bad Neustadt an der Saale Heustreu Hendungen Hollstadt Rödelmaier Wülfershausen an der Saale Höchheim Saal an der Saale Aubstadt Herbstadt Trappstadt Großeibstadt Großbardorf Sulzfeld (im Grabfeld) Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke Thüringen Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Schweinfurt Hessen Landkreis Bad Kissingenmap
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Market square with Parish Church of the Assumption in the background

Bad Neustadt an der Saale (officially: Bad Neustadt ad Saale ) (local: Neuschd) is the district town of the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld , 32 km north of Schweinfurt . The spa town lies on the edge of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park at the confluence of the Brend and Franconian Saale .

geography

geology

The subsoil of the Neustadt area is formed by the rocks of the Upper Buntsandstein and the Lower and Middle Muschelkalk . Under a layer of red sandstone around 700 meters thick, salt deposits up to 125 meters thick are constricted in the 250-meter-thick Zechstein layer above the crystalline bedrock. Their erosion created the basin landscape on the eastern edge of the volcanic Rhön. It is also thanks to her that the healing springs rise from the ground there.

Neighboring communities

Salt , Hohenroth , Heustreu , Rödelmaier , Wollbach , Hollstadt , Unsleben , Schönau an der Brend , Niederlauer , Burglauer , Münnerstadt , radiations

City structure

Bad Neustadt an der Saale is divided into eleven districts:

Spatial planning

Bad Neustadt forms a middle center within the Main-Rhön region , in which Schweinfurt is designated as a regional center .

climate

Climatically, the Neustädter Becken belongs to the area of ​​influence of the mild continental zone, because it lies in the wind and rain shadow of the Rhön. The average amount of precipitation per year is 631 millimeters, the average annual temperature is 9.6 ° C. The climate is rated as weak to gentle.

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history

Until the 19th century

The incorporated town of Brendlorenzen was mentioned for the first time in 741/742 in a document from the newly founded diocese of Würzburg. The local Martinskirche (later renamed after St. John the Baptist) was donated to the diocese as one of 25 own churches. In the area of ​​the city, Charlemagne established the Palatinate Salt in 790 , the exact location of which has not yet been clarified. In 803, Karl received an embassy from the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I here. At least ten stays by Carolingian rulers and at least five of the first Saxon rulers in the Palatinate Salt are certain.

It is not known when the new city was founded on the hill at the confluence of the Brend and Fränkischer Saale rivers. However, excavation finds show that in the 12./13. In the 19th century, a wooden city fortification system surrounded the new settlement. The medieval stone city wall that was built afterwards is still preserved. It surrounds the old town of Bad Neustadt in a heart shape over a length of 1.5 kilometers. The origin of the heart shape is explained in a romantic legend: When Charlemagne stood on the hill of Salzburg and looked into the valley, he said to his wife Fastrada: “As a token of our love, I want to build a heart-shaped city down there . “However, the heart shape did not come into use as a symbol until around 700 years after Charlemagne. Neustadt was mentioned for the first time as nova civitas in a document from the Bishop of Würzburg from 1232. In 1236, pilgrim Abbot Albert von Stade gave Neustadt as one of 28 German stages on his way back from Rome.

From the year 1250 a medieval leprosy can be found in Neustadt , which was referred to as a "special sanctuary"; it was destroyed in 1641. The "Siechenweg", which was outside the city at the time, is still reminiscent of the infirmary today.

During the Peasant War in May 1525, the city was allied with the Bildhäuser Haufen .

The Oberamt Neustadt an der Saale of the Hochstift Würzburg was left in 1805 after the secularization of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and with this in 1814 fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . During the New Town newspaper war in 1869, the city and the local newspaper showed an unusually solidarity towards their fellow Jews.

20th century

Emergency money from the Bad Neustadt municipality from 1919

In 1933 it came to the DC circuit of the Catholic conservative City Council. The entire Third Reich was dominated by the personality of the district leader Andreas Ingebrand.

Airship Graf Zeppelin II in Bad Neustadt in 1939

He also ensured that the new Gartenstadt district was initially named after him. The Jewish population was deported from 1941. In 1945 there was a brief skirmish between the advancing US troops and a few Hitler Youths , the majority of whom were killed. Andreas Ingebrand had decided to flee before the battle. The industrialist Jakob Preh was shot dead by an SS officer . He had tried to surrender the city without a fight. During the fighting, the former bank Lustig was destroyed - as the only building in the city. After the war, the city was on the inner-German border , but still enjoyed an economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s.

Incorporations

In the period from 1934 to 1978, the following places were incorporated:

Population statistics

Bad Neustadt (15,210 inhabitants in the census of May 9, 2011) consists of the districts

  • Old Town and Eastern Outskirts (1702 inhabitants)
  • West outer city (2500)
  • Garden city (2202), together 6404 inhabitants.

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , in 2011 25.9% of the population were Protestant , 55.6% Roman Catholic and 18.4% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. At the end of 2019, around 48% of the population (49% in 2018) were Roman Catholic, 22% Protestant and around 30% of other denominations or without a religion

Buildings

Church of the Assumption

At the location of today's Church of the Assumption of Mary there was a Gothic predecessor building that was expanded around 1050 and 1352 . From 1584 to 1589, Valentin Leucht (1550–1619), author, later imperial count and book commissioner , worked here as pastor or dean. Today's Church of the Assumption of Mary was built from 1798 by court architect Andreas Gärtner based on plans by (Heinrich) Alois Geigel. After several delays, partly due to lack of money, the construction work was completed in 1834. After the interior was completed by the Weinbrenner student and government building officer Johann Philipp Mattlener between 1834 and 1836, the church was consecrated on August 10, 1836 by the bishops of Fulda and Würzburg.

additional

Rederkreuz
  • Salzburg
The Salzburg towers on a wooded height. It is one of the largest castles in Germany. It has been rebuilt many times (various elements from the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods are evidence of this), but it has never been destroyed and has been preserved in its entirety. However, most of the Ganherb manors are now in ruins.
  • Carmelite Church
  • House gate
  • Jewish Cemetery
  • Rederkreuz, 15 meter high wooden cross on the Hohnsleite

Architectural monuments

politics

2014 municipal elections in Bad Neustadt an der Saale
Turnout: 48.73%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
43.05%
27.06%
17.95%
11.94%
Gains and losses
compared to 2008
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-6.64  % p
+ 0.88  % p
+ 2.31  % p
+ 3.45  % p

City council

Since the local elections on March 15, 20 20, the city ​​council has consisted of the first mayor and 24 voluntarily elected city councilors. The distribution of seats is as follows:

Party / list Seats G / V
CSU 8th - 2nd
Free community of voters 7th ± 0
SPD 3 - 1
Green 4th + 1
New list 2 + 2
FDP 1 + 1

P / L: gain or loss compared to the 2014 election

The city council has formed the following committees:

  • Works Committee
  • Audit Committee

The districts of Dürrnhof, Lebenhan and Löhrieth have a local spokesman.

mayor

Michael Werner (Free Voters Community) has been the first mayor since May 1, 2020. He was elected to office in the 2020 local elections with 50.70% of the votes cast. His predecessor Bruno Altrichter, also a Free Voters Community, had not started after 24 years of service.

Second mayor is Norbert Klein (CSU), third mayor is Karl Breitenbücher (Greens).

Mayor since 1948

  • Ludwig Borst (1948–1959)
  • Franz Marschall (1960–1966)
  • Paul Reisenweber (1966–1971)
  • Paul Goebels (1972-1984)
  • Josef Schlagbauer (1984–1996)
  • Bruno Altrichter (1996-2020)
  • Michael Werner (2020–…)
Historical view of the city wall from 1909

coat of arms

Description of coat of arms

Blazon : In red a crenellated wall rising steeply from right to left, below on each side a silver crenellated tower; in the triangle under the walls a growing bishop dressed in gold, with an upright silver sword in his right hand and a silver crook in his left.

Coat of arms declaration

The coat of arms with the steeply rising battlements and the three towers shows the medieval city fortifications. The bishop with the upright sword in his right hand and the bishop's staff in his left represents the Würzburg prince-bishop as sovereign. The oldest completely preserved city seal dates from 1282.

Town twinning

Bad Neustadt also maintains town twinning

Working group Neustadt in Europe
  • GermanyGermany AustriaAustria HungaryHungary PolandPoland Czech RepublicCzech Republic SlovakiaSlovakia NetherlandsNetherlandsIn addition, Bad Neustadt is the founder of Ein Einzig Neustadt and a member of the resulting international city friendship Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neustadt in Europa with 37 member cities and municipalities from seven countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Netherlands; status: April 1, 2014). Bad Neustadt is the only Neustadt with the addition of Bad .
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom FranceFrance Czech RepublicCzech Republic United StatesUnited StatesThere are regular student exchanges with schools from the twin cities of Pershore, Falaise and Bílovec as well as with Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills , Michigan .

Sponsorship

Sports

The most popular sport in Bad Neustadt is soccer, which used to have two clubs (Sportfreunde and VfL). On July 1, 2008, VfL 1860 Bad Neustadt and Sportfreunde Bad Neustadt merged to form VfL 1860 Sportfreunde Bad Neustadt. In addition, most of the districts have their own football clubs (TSV Brendlorenzen, SV Herschfeld, DJK Mühlbach, DJK Lebenhan, DJK Löhrieth). However, Bad Neustadt is most successful in handball. The HSC Bad Neustadt played in the regional league for several years and is now part of the 3rd league east.

With the beginning of the 21st century, cycling has become increasingly important in Bad Neustadt. One of the highlights was the 2001 tour of Germany , during which one stage led to Bad Neustadt. Also in 2006 a stage led through Bad Neustadt. The Bavaria Tour also stops in Bad Neustadt. In 2008 the individual time trial took place. Another major annual event is the Rhöner Kuppenritt, a nationally known popular cycling route with various routes between 30 and 220 kilometers. There is a golf course in Maria Bildhausen not far from the city.

Bad Neustadt hosted the Anguilla national team for the 2006 World Cup . The team that did not qualify for the finals was invited as a sign of hospitality within the FIFA family, as they were the worst team according to the official FIFA world rankings at the time of the World Cup.

Aviation has also been represented in Bad Neustadt for decades. The Aeroclub Bad Neustadt is located on the Grasberg near Mühlbach / Salz . In 1950 the club was founded at the Fliegerstammtisch. The annual highlight is the airfield festival on Whitsun, a joint event with the Mühlbach band .

Bad Neustadt also has a large thermal bath. The Triamare is a thermal bath, a sports and leisure pool with a large sauna area.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Rhoen-Klinikum AG is known nationwide through various existing by the corporation before the acquisition, specialty hospitals. In the early 20th century, various companies settled here, Siemens being one of the best-known. At the end of the 1990s, Bad Neustadt had one of the highest income tax revenues among German cities.

Bad Neustadt has a train station on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line . Bad Neustadt has been connected to long-distance road traffic since December 2005 via the federal motorway 71 , which runs from Sangerhausen via Erfurt to Schweinfurt .

Companies

The industrial area from the air.

Resident companies are:

  • Siemens with almost 2,300 employees and approx. 110 trainees; mainly electric motors are produced.
  • BSH Hausgeräte GmbH produces vacuum cleaners.
  • Preh, with around 1300 employees, manufactures air conditioning control parts and driver assistance systems, sensor systems and control devices for the automotive industry as well as high-performance assembly and production lines in the Preh Innovative Automation (PIA) product area.
  • Kunert-Wellpappe produces industrial packaging for heavy and sensitive goods in the chemical, automotive, machine and electrical industries.
  • The Jopp Group with almost 1,800 employees is a manufacturer of systems and components for the automotive industry and food technology.
  • The Geis Group , headquartered in Bad Neustadt, is a logistics service provider with around 4500 employees at 95 locations across Europe.
  • Wienerberger , a brickworks whose chimney is the tallest building in the city at 70 meters
  • The Karmeliter brewery is one of the oldest breweries in Bavaria in the Salz district

traffic

The city can be reached via the federal highway 71 Erfurt – Schweinfurt (junction Bad Neustadt or Münnerstadt).

Furthermore, the lead federal highway 279 ( Fulda -Bad Neustadt- Bad Königshofen - Bamberg ) and the Federal Highway 19 ( Meiningen - Mellrichstadt -Bad Neustadt- Würzburg ) through the city.

Bad Neustadt train station is on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line (see also Mainfranken-Thuringia Express and Lower Franconia Shuttle ). Until 1989 there was also a branch line to Bischofsheim .

Local public transport (ÖPNV) is served by the NESSI bus routes (NESSI 1–4) in the city area , outside of which several bus routes on behalf of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Rhön-Grabfeld (VRG) of Omnibusverkehr Franken GmbH (OVF).

The Franconian Marienweg leads through Bad Neustadt .

Airfield

The Bad Neustadt / Saale-Grasberg airfield special airfield has a 620 meter long asphalt runway. This is primarily used to take off and land motor planes and gliders of the local Aeroclub Bad Neustadt association as well as free balloons, aircraft up to 2000 kg MTOW and helicopters up to 5700 kg.

media

The two most popular local media are the two daily newspapers Rhön- and Saalepost as well as the Main-Post . While the Main-Post dedicates a small local section to Bad Neustadt and the surrounding area, the Rhön- und Saalepost specializes in local news for Bad Neustadt and is accordingly more extensive in reporting, but does not have a self-produced supraregional section, this is from the Volksblatt Würzburg delivered.

The radio station Radio Primaton is broadcast from the telecommunications tower on the Heidelberg near Frickenhausen on the VHF frequency 101.5 MHz with 1 kW.

The Bildhäuser Hof in Bad Neustadt houses the building authority, the city library and the city ​​archive

Public facilities

Triamare sports and leisure pool , triple gymnastics hall Bürgermeister-Goebels-Halle , city library, city ​​archive , cultural workshop , office for food, agriculture and forestry , district court with branch in Mellrichstadt

Jewish Cemetery

The local Jewish families buried their deceased in the Jewish cemetery in the western outskirts until the last Jewish residents were deported for extermination in the Shoah in 1942 . A plaque at the entrance reminds of this event.

education

Bad Neustadt is the location for a total of nine different schools:

Technology transfer center for electromobility

As part of the development of the model city for electromobility , the Electromobility Technology Transfer Center , TTZ-EMO for short, was set up on the premises of the Jakob Preh Vocational School at the beginning of 2012 . The center is a peripheral sub-institution of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, or FHWS for short. At TZZ-EMO, students can write their diploma theses or take practical semesters.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in the place

  • Hehtor, the symbol of the city

  • Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption

  • Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption

  • Jewish Cemetery

  • Fountain in the market square

  • New bus station with solar panels in the roof

  • Town hall (old)

  • New construction of the city hall in 2016

  • city ​​wall

  • Trimarebad

  • The market bear

  • Siemens factory / city center

  • Jopp Campus (development center)

  • Kunert corrugated cardboard

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Otto Schnell: The jurisdiction in the Salzgau and in the Amte Neustadt a / S built from a part of it. Josef Mayer, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1880.
  • Anton Memminger : Neustadt a. S., Bad Neuhaus and Salzburg. Gebrüder Memminger Verlag, Würzburg 1921.
  • Karl Gröber: The art monuments of Bavaria. Volume 3: Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, Part 22: District Office Neustadt a. Saale. Munich 1922. (Reprint: Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-50476-2 ).
  • Alfons Maria Borst , Ernst Nittner : Small guide through Bad Neustadt an der Saale and its history. Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1962.
  • Hans Fritsch: Bad Neustadt an de Saale. In: Franconian bathing trips in old and new times, Frankenbund, Würzburg 1965, p. 51 f.
  • Ludwig Benkert : Bad Neustadt ad Saale. Text: Ludwig Benkert. Image: Rudolf Schöning, Heinz Fiswik. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-8035-8426-4
  • Giesela Sendner, Michael Neubauer: Greetings from Neustadt / Saale. 105 old views from Bad Neustadt. Sendner & Neubauer, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1979.
  • Heinrich Wagner : Neustadt ad Saale. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part: Franconia. Series 1, Issue 27). Kallmünz, Lassleben 1982, ISBN 3-7696-9929-7 .
  • Ludwig Benkert : Bad Neustadt on the Saale. Sendner & Neubauer, Bad Neustadt an der Saale / Creußen 1985.
  • Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 74–76.
  • Helmut Flachenecker (Ed.): Palatinate - Ganerbeburg - city. Functional changes in a central location. (= Contributions to the history of Bad Neustadt. Volume 1). Egrensis-Offizin Neubauer, Creußen 2007, DNB 986818402 .
  • Lorenz Bauer: Archeology in and around Bad Neustadt. Excavations and emergency rescues. (= Contributions to the history of Bad Neustadt. Volume 5). Sendner & Neubauer, Bad Neustadt an der Saale / Creußen 2011, DNB 1017075603 .
  • City of Bad Neustadt an der Saale (Ed.): Your city magazine. Bad Neustadt an der Saale since November 2011, DNB 1019816562 ( online ).
  • Rhön and Saalepost (ed.): Treasures, villains, sensations History and stories from 150 years. Rhön and Saale mail. Bad Neustadt an der Saale 2012, ISBN 978-3-939959-09-0 .
  • Stefan Kummer : A lofty building - the parish church of the Assumption in Bad Neustadt an der Saale by Heinrich Alois Geigel. Sendner & Neubauer, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 2013, ISBN 978-3-944383-00-2 .
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , pp. 48–56.

Web links

Commons : Bad Neustadt an der Saale  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Bad Neustadt an der Saale in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Bad Neustadt an der Saale  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Bad Neustadt an der Saale: Mayor. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bavarian State Library Online (BLO)
  4. ↑ Medieval leprosories in today's Bavaria, data from the Society for Leprosy ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.org
  5. ↑ Lorenz Fries: The history of the peasant war in East Franconia, Würzburg 1883 .
  6. ^ A b c d e Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 428 .
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 741 .
  8. ↑ town of Bad Neustadt ad Saale religion , Census 2011
  9. ↑ Annual Report 2018 , accessed on August 5, 2019
  10. ↑ Statistics on population development: Bad Neustadt is decreasing , accessed on May 4, 2020
  11. ^ House of Bavarian History - Bavaria's municipalities. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .
  12. ^ City of Bad Neustadt an der Saale: City arms. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 117
  14. ↑ His students took part in the construction of several objects in the National Monument Sculpture Park German Unity
  15. ↑ Your students participated in the construction of several objects in the National Monument Sculpture Park German Unity
  16. ↑ Information from FHWS and TZZ-EMO
  17. ↑ Founding President Prof. Dr. August W. Behr celebrates his 80th birthday