Bad Rappenau
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ' N , 9 ° 6' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Heilbronn | |
| Height : | 235 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 73.55 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 21,398 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 291 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 74906 | |
| Primaries : | 07264, 07066, 07268, 06268, 07266 | |
| License plate : | HN | |
| Community key : | 08 1 25 006 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BPP | |
| City structure: | Core city and 8 districts | |
City administration address : |
Kirchplatz 4 74906 Bad Rappenau |
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| Lord Mayor : | Sebastian Frei (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district | ||
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Bad Rappenau is a town in the Kraichgau in the northwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg, about 14 km as the crow flies northwest of Heilbronn and 34 km southeast of Heidelberg . It belongs to the middle center area Heilbronn of the eponymous regional center , the Heilbronn-Franken region and for the marginal zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .
After Neckarsulm and Eppingen , Bad Rappenau is the third largest city in the Heilbronn district . The municipality received on 1 October 1973 municipal rights and is since 1 January 2003 " large district ," the title of " Spa Island " wears the place since 1930th
geography
Geographical location
Bad Rappenau is located in the northeastern Kraichgau . The main town and most of the district are already on the Kraichgau plateau, while the Heinsheim district is located on the banks of the Neckar, which is around 100 meters lower . The most important body of water is the Mühlbach , which rises in the Babstadt district to the west of the capital . It crosses Bad Rappenau, feeds the lakes at the moated castle and in the spa gardens, and then flows northeast over the so-called Fünfmühlental into the Neckar.
Neighboring communities
The following cities and communities border the city of Bad Rappenau ( clockwise , starting in the east): Gundelsheim , Offenau and Bad Wimpfen (all districts of Heilbronn ), Heilbronn ( city districts ), Massenbachhausen and Kirchardt (both districts of Heilbronn), Sinsheim , Neckarbischofsheim and Helmstadt -Bargen (all Rhein-Neckar district ), Hüffenhardt ( Neckar-Odenwald district ), Siegelsbach (district Heilbronn) and Haßmersheim (Neckar-Odenwald district). Bad Rappenau has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the communities of Kirchardt and Siegelsbach .
City structure
The urban area of Bad Rappenau is divided into the core city and the districts Babstadt , Bonfeld , Fürfeld , Grombach , Heinsheim , Obergimpern , Treschklingen and Wollenberg .
Bad Rappenau itself also includes the village of Zimmerhof , the hamlets of Kohlhof and Maierhof, and the Bartsmühle , Kugelmühle and Sommersmühle residential areas . The Oberbiegelhof and Unterbiegelhof farms belong to Babstadt, the Eichhäuser Hof , Obere Mühle and Untere Mühle farms to Bonfeld, the Ehrenberg residential area to Heinsheim, the Eulenberg (er) Hof and Wagenbach farms to Obergimpern, as well as the Obere Mühle and Portland cement works Wollenberg the Neumühle residential area. Places that have passed and no longer exist today are Speßhart and Straßbach on the Rappenau mark, Eichhausen on the Bonfeld mark, Hurenfurt (Altfürfeld) on the Fürfeld mark and Battenhausen on the Grombach mark.
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
history
Early history
In Roman times, today's district of Rappenau formed the hinterland of the strategically important Wimpfen fort . The important Roman road from Speyer to Wimpfen, the course of which follows the L 530 in the Rappenau area today, crossed the Rappenau district from west to east. In several of today's Rappenau suburbs, including Fürfeld, Babstadt and Obergimpern, there were villae rusticae , while in Rappenau itself the remains of a Roman granary were excavated in 1994.
Rappenau was first mentioned in a document as Rappenaw in 1343, but a Raban von Wimpfen is mentioned as Reichs ministeriale as early as 1190 , to whom the name of the place as "Rabans Aue" is variously ascribed and whose descendants had the ravens in their coat of arms. According to other interpretations, the place was named after an unknown founder Rappo, who was not connected to the ministerial. A black horse , as it can be seen in today's coat of arms, is ruled out as the namesake, since the term in the German language only came into use around the 16th century. Only the ending on Au , which refers to the damp lowland of the Mühlbach, is considered safe .
The settlement probably took place in the Merovingian-Franconian period, as indicated by a burial ground north of Heinsheimer Strasse and numerous ceramic finds. The property was divided into hereditary fiefs consisting of individual farms , a common land was only created in the course of the 14th century. The settlement finally concentrated on two cores: the lower village around the moated castle and the upper village around the church, where there was also a manor at today's market square. The concentration of settlements in the late Middle Ages led to the abandonment of the northwestern hamlet Speßhart .
The upper feudal lordship over Rappenau was with the Counts of Vaihingen and Counts of Württemberg until 1339 , from 1344 solely with the Counts and later dukes of Württemberg. In addition, the Wimpfen pen had local rights. When the Vaihinger stake passed to Württemberg, the entire fiefdom came to Konrad von Helmstatt from the Rappenau line of the Lords of Helmstatt , who had previously owned the larger part of Württemberg. In the period that followed, the upper and lower villages grew together to form a village whose natural border to the south was the Mühlbach. After Konrad's death, towards the end of the 14th century, the fiefdom came into different hands before Peter von Helmstatt acquired the entire fiefdom again in 1436. In 1438, during the guardianship of the Lords of Weinsberg via Jost and Martin von Helmstatt, a fifth of the rights to the village and bailiwick came to the city of Wimpfen (the so-called Wimpfener fifth , which only came back to the fiefdom in 1649). In 1578 Daniel and David von Helmstatt sold the fiefdom to Johann Philipp von Helmstatt , a distant relative from the Dürkasteler branch of the family. Johann Philipp was in the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate and could not fulfill the vassal obligation associated with the fief for Duke Ludwig of Württemberg . He sold the entire Helmstatter share in 1592 for 35,000 guilders to Reinhard von Gemmingen zu Treschklingen (1532–1598) from the family of the lords of Gemmingen , who in addition to the fiefdom also acquired extensive allodial property .
Rappenau under the Lords of Gemmingen
Reinhard von Gemmingen's son Eberhard (1567–1611) completed the Rappenau moated castle on the site of the old castle by 1603 , but died early. His underage sons Philipp , Melchior-Reinhard and Hans Sigmund were initially under the tutelage of the Eberhards brothers, first Hans Wilhelm , who died in 1615, and then Reinhard the scholar . The brothers Philipp, Melchior-Reinhard and Hans Sigmund all died young in the Thirty Years War . Rappenau was burned down several times during the war. The fiefdom was withdrawn in 1630. During the war, the minor Eberhard (1628–1675), who fled to Menzingen with his mother, was the only family owner. In 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia, he received the fiefdom back over Rappenau. He was temporarily director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau and died childless.
After Eberhard's death in 1675, his older and already wealthy great-nephew Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1608–1680) joined the line of succession. His sons Erpho, Weiprecht, Uriel and Reinhard administered their father's property together until 1688, after which Rappenau came to Uriel (1644–1707), who from 1684 was also director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau.
Uriel was followed by his son Karl Ludwig von Gemmingen (1700–1752), who had no male offspring, so that Rappenau came to his distant cousin Eberhard von Gemmingen (1713–1757), who became known as a Prussian military person, in 1752 . His son Eberhard Georg (1754–1806) was only three years old when he inherited, so that Rappenau came under the guardianship of Eberhard Georg's grandfather Eberhard (1688–1767). After his death, the feudal heir was still not of age, so that his uncle Sigmund von Gemmingen (1724–1806), who was wealthy in Treschklingen, took over the guardianship and in 1779 finally handed over the property.
Eberhard Georg survived his son Christian Friedrich von Gemmingen (1780–1805), who died young, by a year, after which the former guardian Sigmund von Gemmingen joined the inheritance again, but he lived in Hungary and died within the same year. 1806 came Rappenau to his son of the same name Sigmund (1777-1843).
Within the succession of owners and heirs of the Rappenau local lords, which changed rapidly in the 18th century, there are many higher-ranking diplomats and military personnel who moved to the court in Vienna or to theaters of war throughout Europe, so that the property in Rappenau was in places neglected around 1800. Only Sigmund took care of the property again.
In 1806, Rappenau came to the Grand Duchy of Baden through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . As a result, the barons of Gemmingen lost their official rights, but of course they remained the largest landowner in the town and the surrounding area. A branch of the family lived in the castle until the Second World War. In 1810 Rappenau was temporarily the seat of an office , but in 1813 it became part of the Neckarbischofsheim district office , after which it became the Sinsheim district office in 1864 .
Upswing through the saltworks and spa
In 1822, the salt works director Georg Christian Heinrich Rosentritt came across a rich salt store at the edge of the Einsiedelwald at a depth of 175 meters and founded the Rappenau salt works . This saltworks belonged to the Baden state, so that Rappenau had no direct income from the saltworks, but the saltworks still benefited the growth of the place immensely. Between 1825 and 1829 the place exceeded the mark of 1000 inhabitants. From 1832 there was a share association, which opened the Sophienbad (named after the patroness Grand Duchess Sophie von Baden) on May 15, 1834, in which the Rappenau brine was also used for healing purposes. In 1845 the saltwater pool was built. A steam bath was added in 1862, and brine inhalations were offered from 1886.
In 1887, the Mannheim Deaconess House opened the Siloah children's spa for city children in need of relaxation. In 1912, Professor Dr. Oskar Vulpius at the edge of the Rappenau forest a sanatorium with 120 beds for the treatment of bone, joint and glandular diseases, the later Vulpius Clinic . In the meantime, the old salt-water pool from 1845 had also been replaced by the community-owned Sophie-Luisen-Bad (1903–1966). In 1921 around 84,500 overnight stays were counted.
After the town's railway station had been called Bad Rappenau since 1914 , the official recognition of the town as a spa , for which the municipality had applied since 1903, was based on an order of the Baden State Ministry of September 4, 1930, according to which the municipality of Rappenau ( district office Sinsheim ) should bear the name Bad Rappenau with effect from October 1, 1930 .
The spa business in Bad Rappenau grew rapidly after the Second World War. In 1952 it was already the seventh largest spa in the country, although the facilities were now outdated and the spa area was extensively modernized and expanded in the 1960s and 1970s following a general plan from 1961. In the 1970s there were four specialist clinics and around 600,000 overnight stays were counted. At the same time, the saline was shut down in 1972/73. Most of the saltworks buildings and facilities were demolished and the saltworks area as a saltworks garden was part of the spa area. The establishment of the spa and clinic administration in 1977 enabled the further upswing of the spa business. Today five spa facilities work together under the umbrella of the spa and clinic administration and form a competence center for medical rehabilitation and prevention. In 1986 the city acquired the concession to continue to extract brine for healing purposes from the remaining boreholes.
Development into a large district town
As part of the administrative reorganization in 1939, Bad Rappenau passed from the Sinsheim district office to the Sinsheim district . On April 1, 1950, the Zimmerhof district of Heinsheim, and on April 1, 1952, the Zimmerhöferfeld from Bad Wimpfen to Bad Rappenau. From 1971 to 1973 eight other surrounding communities (five from the Sinsheim district, two from the Heilbronn district and one from the Mosbach district ) were incorporated into Bad Rappenau. As part of the district reform on January 1, 1973, Bad Rappenau was assigned to the Heilbronn district , which belongs to the Stuttgart administrative region. The former Baden community of Bad Rappenau is now administered from Stuttgart, which was formerly in Württemberg.
Before the municipal reform, Bad Rappenau had around 5200 inhabitants. Through the incorporation of seven suburbs in the course of the municipal reform by spring 1973, the population had risen to around 12,500 people. On May 29, 1973 Bad Rappenau was granted city rights. The reason stated that the place was not only a well-known spa, but also the economic and cultural center of the surrounding communities, in which considerable facilities of urban character had been created. In 2001 the Heimattage Baden-Württemberg took place in Bad Rappenau , and the city's population exceeded the 20,000 mark. The city administration then applied for a major district town , which the Baden-Württemberg state government decided with effect from January 1, 2003. In 2008 over 700,000 visitors came to the Baden-Württemberg state horticultural show in Bad Rappenau .
Religions
The area of the city of Bad Rappenau originally belonged to the diocese of Worms . In 1343 the Bishop of Worms allowed Konrad von Helmstatt to equip the Rappenau branch chapel of the Wimpfen parish church as his own parish church. The Reformation was introduced by the local lords from 1530 , as a result of which Rappenau was a predominantly Protestant community for centuries.
After the transition to Baden in 1806, the community became a member of the later Evangelical Church in Baden . In 1887 the community laid the foundation stone for a new church, today's Bad Rappenau town church . The parish Bad Rappenau originally belonged to the parish of Sinsheim, from 1975 to the parish of Eppingen-Bad Rappenau, which merged with the parish of Sinsheim to form the new parish of Kraichgau on January 1, 2005 . There are also Protestant parishes or churches in the districts of Babstadt, Grombach, Heinsheim, Obergimpern and Treschklingen, which belong to the Evangelical Church in Baden (Kraichgau church district). The parishes in the districts of Bonfeld and Fürfeld, however, are still part of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg ( Heilbronn church district ) due to their earlier membership in Württemberg .
In the 19th century, Catholics also moved to Rappenau. They were initially looked after by the neighboring community of Siegelsbach. In 1896 they were able to celebrate their own church services in a room in the moated castle, and from 1929 the congregation built today's Herz-Jesu-Kirche , which was expanded in 1954 and its own parish was established in 1959. The community has belonged to the Archdiocese of Freiburg since it was founded ( Kraichgau dean's office , based in Sinsheim, before 2008 in Waibstadt). The parishes in the Bad Rappenau urban area and some neighboring parishes of Bad Rappenau are now part of the two pastoral care units Bad Rappenau (parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Bad Rappenau with subsidiary churches St. Johannes Baptist Heinsheim, St. Georg Siegelsbach and Maria Königin Hüffenhardt) and Obergimpern (parish St. Cyriak Obergimpern with branch church St. Josef Untergimpern, parish of St. Margaretha Grombach with branch church St. Agidius Kirchardt).
A Jewish community in Rappenau had existed since the 16th century, even though the place was not continuously inhabited by Jews and the community was always small and poor. A small synagogue was built in 1843 and the Bad Rappenau Jewish cemetery was laid out in 1881 . The size of the community was more than 80 people in 1875, but it decreased sharply in the following period due to emigration and emigration. In 1900 there were 46 Jews living there, in 1933 there were 10. In 1937 the community was dissolved, the synagogue was sold and converted into a milk collection point. On the night of the pogrom in 1938 there were riots against the few Jews still living in Rappenau. Four of the five Jews still living in Rappenau in 1940 died when German Jews were deported in 1940. In 1944 the children of Soviet forced laborers and in 1945 four perished concentration camp prisoners were buried in the Jewish cemetery . There were also Jewish communities in several parts of the city.
Incorporations
The following communities and districts were incorporated into Bad Rappenau. Unless otherwise stated, these belonged to the Sinsheim district until the end of 1972. With the incorporation, the communities that had not previously belonged to the Sinsheim district became part of the Sinsheim district and, as part of the district reform , came to the Heilbronn district on January 1, 1973 with the entire city of Bad Rappenau.
- April 1, 1950: Zimmerhof (Umgemeinde from Heinsheim)
- April 1, 1952: Zimmerhöferfeld
- January 1, 1971: Babstadt , Treschklingen
- January 1, 1972: Obergimpern , Wollenberg
- March 1, 1972: Heinsheim (District Mosbach)
- January 1, 1973: Fürfeld (Heilbronn district), Grombach
- November 1, 1973: Bonfeld (Heilbronn district)
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).
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¹ census result
politics
Local council and local council
The council of the city of Bad Rappenau has since the local elections on May 26, 2019 35 members (instead of 34 after the election in 2014), the title a total of councilor / town councilor lead. The choice led to the following result:
| Party / list | Share of votes | W / l% p | Seats | G / V |
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| CDU | 32.1% | - 7.9 | 11 | - 3 |
| SPD | 18.0% | - 6.9 | 6th | - 2nd |
| ÖDP | 11.9% | + 1.5 | 4th | ± 0 |
| GREEN * | 16.5% | + 3.9 | 6th | + 2 |
| Free voters | 12.0% | - 1.9 | 8th | + 4 |
| total | 100% | 34 | ||
| Turnout: 53.1% | ||||
* 2014 Green Alternative List (GAL)
G / V: Change to the previous municipal council election 2014
As a result of the false choice of suburbs introduced in Bad Rappenau , each district has a precisely defined number of seats in the municipal council. In the Fürfeld district, however, there is also a local council to be elected by the population entitled to vote, with a local mayor who is elected by the local council at the suggestion of the local council. This body is to be heard on important matters affecting the locality.
mayor
At the head of the municipality of Rappenau was usually a Vogt appointed by the local lords. After the transition to Baden, a mayor headed the municipal administration, he was supported by a council. Since the elevation to the major district town on January 1, 2003, the mayor has been named mayor . His representative is the first alderman with the official title of mayor .
Mayor and Lord Mayor
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badges and flags
Bad Rappenau's coat of arms as used by the city
Bad Rappenau's coat of arms, a version of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department
The blazon of the Bad Rappenau coat of arms reads: In gold on a blue shield base a jumping black horse (black horse) . The city flag is black and yellow.
The Rappenau municipal seal from 1820 shows the coat of arms of the former local lords, the Lords of Gemmingen , so two golden bars in blue , covered with the talking coat of arms figure of the " Rappen ". Since this depiction, in which the black horse partially covered the blue background of the shield, violated the heraldic color rule , only the colors of the Gemmingen coat of arms were adopted in the Bad Rappenau municipal coat of arms. The coat of arms and the flag were awarded to the community of Bad Rappenau on September 26, 1957 by the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg .
Town twinning
Bad Rappenau has been twinned with the city of Contrexéville in France since 1982 and with Llandrindod Wells in Wales ( United Kingdom ) since 2001 .
Culture and sights
Museums
Bad Rappenau has had the Bad Rappenau Museum in the Forum Fränkischer Hof cultural center since 1989 . This museum in a historical property from 1842 offers an overview of excavations as well as the history of salt pans and baths in the former imperial knight village of Rappenau. Special features of the museum are the devices for drilling technology, brine extraction and evaporated salt production from the early years of the salt works. Since 2008, the museum's exhibition has been supplemented by a branch in the drilling house at the Rappenau graduation tower . The world's first swimwear museum has also been located in Bad Rappenau since 2020. In the BikiniARTmuseum, the development of swimwear from 1880 to the present is presented on 2,000 square meters of exhibition space.
Buildings
The moated castle Bad Rappenau is the city's landmark . The building, which is surrounded by water on three sides, has a corner tower in the north-west and north-east corner and a stair tower on the south facade. The castle was built from 1601 to 1603 by Eberhard von Gemmingen , who crowns the ornate Renaissance portal on the stair tower of the building as a bust. The castle, which was still surrounded by farm buildings to the north and east until the 1950s, has been in the possession of the municipality since 1956, which initially used it for spa purposes and then from 1980 to 2001 as the administrative center. Today the castle houses the art association Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau eV and a gallery and is used for art exhibitions, concerts and lectures. The park surrounding the building extends along the Mühlbach, which is mostly twisted in the village, to the west to the center of the village. The corner tower of the former forecourt is also located near the castle.
In the center of town on the market square is the Protestant town church Bad Rappenau , which was built in 1887 by the later honorary citizen, building officer Hermann Behaghel . Next to the church is the New Town Hall , which was built between 1999 and 2001, with the striking rotunda facing the church square, in which the citizens' office and council chamber are located. In front of the town hall there is a group of sculptures, on the market square there is the spherical market fountain made of greenish granite and consisting of eight horizontally stacked discs by the artist Jörg Failmezger from Pleidelsheim. The fountain is intended to symbolize the togetherness of the Bad Rappenau districts with the core city as well as the importance of water for the spa town of Bad Rappenau.
The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche , located on the lower Salinenstrasse, was built from 1929 according to plans by the Heidelberg architect Franz Sales Kuhn . In 1954 it was expanded under the direction of the architect Ohnmacht. The neo-baroque building with onion dome impresses above all with a sgraffito (wall decoration) on the northern wall of the upper facade, which shows all 14 stations of the cross. The work comes from Franz Xaver Hemmerle from Freiburg.
Corner tower of the castle forecourt
City fountain
Culture house
Town hall sculptures
The old town hall , which was completed in 1841 and was the town's first town hall, is located next to the town church, since previous Rappenau mayors, bailiffs and mayors had their official business in their private homes. The building planned by Christoph Arnold was initially a school and town hall. Even after the construction of a school house (today's Realschule) in 1906/07, rooms were still used for other purposes, so that the building only became a town hall in 1914. The building served this purpose until the city administration moved to the moated castle in 1980. At the old town hall there is a wall fountain from 1928, which is intended to remind of a market fountain that used to be there and which bears the inscriptions: “Peace is the citizen's first duty” and “There is truth in wine, there is clarity in water”. There are also some historic half-timbered buildings in the village, including the Dominikanerhof . The station is a classical building from the time of the railway construction around 1868.
Dominican Court
railway station
Schoolhouse from 1906
Old town hall fountain from 1928
The resting place of salt works inspector and honorary citizen Georg Christian Heinrich Rosentritt , who discovered the Bad Rappenau salt warehouse in 1822, is in the municipal cemetery at the northern end of the village on the road to Siegelsbach . There is also a war memorial at the entrance to the cemetery with sculptures of four life-size soldiers. A historic Jewish cemetery is located north of the municipal cemetery on the road to Siegelsbach. To the west of the cemetery lies the Vulpius Clinic , which opened in 1912, on a hill , the gable of which is one of the landmarks of the place, but the original structure of which can hardly be recognized after several renovations and additions.
War memorial from 1934
Vulpius Clinic
School center, extension
Parks
Bad Rappenau has several parks: the castle park around the moated castle in the west of the city and the saltworks garden with Hohenstadter Grund and the adjoining spa park in the east of the city. The connecting path from the castle park to the spa park leads largely through park-like green spaces. In the Saline Garden on the Schwärzberg east of the spa zone along the Salinenstraße with therapy center and several clinics are significant remains of the once existing here Rappenauer Saline received. The Saline Office building and the contemporary surrounding residential buildings, which have also been preserved, were built in 1830 by Friedrich Weinbrenner and his students. Today a monopteros adorns the entrance area of the saltworks garden on the site of the former saltworks canteen. The work of art was made in 1982 by the artists Matchinsky and Denninghoff, who live in Berlin and Paris, from chrome-nickel-steel tubing. The transformer station from 1925, which is modeled on the Weinbrenner buildings and is used today in gastronomy, has also been preserved in the saltworks garden. The machine factory and iron foundry Gebrüder Botsch were once located on the grounds of the spa area .
Trafostation
Monopteros
South of the saltworks garden is the Hohenstadter Grund with several pump houses for brine production, a memorial for the fallen saltworks workers 1914–1918, a historic mobile drilling tower and a treadmill (so-called brine cow ) from the beginnings of brine production. A graduation tower was also built there for the 2008 State Garden Show .
Pump house with a memorial
Treadmill (saline cow)
Graduation tower
To the north of the saline garden, separated by the railway line, lies the elongated spa park in the Mühlbachtal, which, like the other parks, was extensively redesigned for the 2008 State Garden Show. The spa park and the saltworks garden are connected by a newly built bridge with a double spiral staircase. An artificially dammed lake and the New Kurhaus form the western end of the spa park . At the level of the spa park there was a mill from around 1710 to 1790. In the further course of the Fünfmühlental to the northeast , five former mills have been preserved, of which the Kugelmühle , the Barthsmühle and the Sommersmühle are still in the area around Bad Rappenau.
Stair tower in the spa gardens
Lake in the spa park
Kurmittelhaus
Regular events
The street festival has been taking place in the city center every year since 1977 and the town festival since 1978. The settler community also holds a spring festival every year. There have been various annual festivals in the city districts since the 1980s and 1990s. B. the autumn festival and the castle courtyard festival in Grombach , the fishing festival in Heinsheim , the castle festival in Obergimpern , the wine press festival (Jakobimarkt) in Wollenberg or the Martinimarkt in Zimmerhof . The annual festival of lights at the Kurpark has up to 10,000 visitors. For over 20 years there has been the annual open-air festival on the Römersee between the Zimmerhof district and the neighboring municipality of Siegelsbach . Another musical event has been taking place since 2014, the Geschrubb & Geschepper Festival in the Mühltalhalle. It takes place every year on the third weekend in November.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Bad Rappenau Station is located on the neckargemünd-bad friedrichshall-jagstfeld railway that from Bad Friedrichshall to Heidelberg leads. The local public transport ( ÖPNV ) provided by Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr (HNV) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) are served by several bus routes.
At the end of 2013, the Heilbronn Stadtbahn was extended to Bad Rappenau and Sinsheim on this route .
Bad Rappenau has a direct connection to the federal motorway 6 (Mannheim – Heilbronn). Federal road 39 also runs through the Fürfeld district .
Established businesses
Some of the largest companies in Bad Rappenau:
- HERMES logistics center Bad Rappenau - Bonfeld district
- Mondi Packaging Bad Rappenau GmbH, manufacturer of packaging materials for industry
- ZIMA Apparate GmbH, manufacturer of filter and suction systems
- Stahl Plast Kunststoffe GmbH & Co., sales of raw materials for the plastics and cable industry
- Losberger Intertent GmbH, manufacturer of tents and prefabricated halls
- EOS KSI Inkasso Deutschland GmbH, receivables and credit management
- Kraichgau-Klinik Bad Rappenau GmbH & Co.KG, rehabilitation clinic for oncology
- Vulpius Klinik GmbH, clinic for orthopedics, endoprosthetics, hand surgery, shoulder surgery
- Kurklinik Bad Rappenau GmbH, administration and operation of spa clinics
- Häffner Bräu, brewery and restaurant business
media
Through the local events in Bad Rappenau report the daily papers Kraichgau voice (a minor issue of the Heilbronner Stimme ), the Bad Rappenauer messenger / Eppinger News (a minor issue of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ) and the issued by the press office of the city of Bad Rappenau Official Journal Bulletin of large district town Bad Rappenau .
Public facilities
Bad Rappenau has a notary's office .
education
Bad Rappenau has a network school. It consists of a secondary school , a special needs school , a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule, a community school and a primary school each in the districts of Bonfeld, Fürfeld, Grombach, Heinsheim, Obergimpern and Zimmerhof as well as a joint primary school ( Theodor Heuss School) for them City districts Babstadt and Treschklingen. Most high school students from Bad Rappenau attend the Hohenstaufen high school in Bad Wimpfen , while the secondary school students from Bad Wimpfen , which is only a few kilometers away, usually go to the Bad Rappenau composite school. In addition, the Unterland Adult Education Center in Bad Rappenau has a branch. The Bad Rappenau city and spa library has an inventory of over 20,000 books and other media.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The municipality or city of Bad Rappenau has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1836: Georg Christian Heinrich Rosentritt , Saline Inspector
- 1877: Heinrich Fink, Medical Councilor
- 1889: Hermann Behaghel , building officer and builder of the Evangelical Church
- 1935: Oskar Vulpius , founder of the Vulpius Clinic
- 1947: Othmar Meisinger , local researcher and poet
- 1948: Hermann Hofmann, former mayor
- 1957: Carl Münz, District Administrator
- 1962: Lina Feucht, community nurse
- 1978: Fritz Hagner, retired mayor D.
sons and daughters of the town
- Leopold Conradi (1776–1839), born in Obergimpern, businessman in Stuttgart
- Philipp Albrecht von Gemmingen (1782–1852), born in Bonfeld, major general in Württemberg
- Jakob Friedrich Bengel (1817–1878), innkeeper and mayor in Treschklingen and member of the Baden state parliament
- Christine Schmutz (1838–1906), Mennonite
- Christian Hege (1840–1907), landlord and member of parliament
- Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1851–1928), born in Babstadt, member of parliament from Baden, Württemberg officer
- Willi Egler (1887–1953), painter
- Ludwig Egler (1894–1965), composer and poet
- Carl Egler (1896–1982), sculptor
- Eberhard von Gemmingen (* 1936), Jesuit priest and head of the German editorial team at Vatican Radio
- Holger Schmezer (1947–2012), dressage rider and head trainer of the German dressage riders
- Klaus Zapf (1952–2014), entrepreneur, founder of the Berlin company Zapf Umzüge
- Werner Habiger (1957–2016), football player
Other personalities
- Charlotte Hofmann-Hege (1920–2012), writer, lived and died in Bad Rappenau
- Evelyn Sanders (* 1934), writer, lives in Bad Rappenau
- Carina Bär (* 1990), rowing athlete and silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics , lives in the Babstadt district
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Peter Boxheimer: First candidate for the mayor announced . In: Kraichgau Voice , August 19, 2017
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↑ Source for the urban structure section:
Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Administrative region of Stuttgart, regional associations of Franconia and East Wuerttemberg . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . P. 50–56
Additional source for Hurenfurt: Hans-Heinz Hartmann: Hurenfurt, a forgotten village near Fürfeld . In: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote Nr. 10, Bad Rappenau 1998
The Niuern or Neuern mentioned in the description of the country never existed according to the history of the city of Bad Rappenau (Bad Rappenau 1978, note p. 52), the error goes to R Bührlen (1970), who erroneously located the property of the Barons of Gemmingen near Niefern near Rappenau. The Heimatbuch also lists the further abandoned residential area in Straßbach and makes corrective comments that Speßhart was never called Speceshart , but that there is also another confusion with the village of Spessart near Ettlingen. - ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Bad Rappenau.
- ↑ Hans-Heinz Hartmann: A Roman granary in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8, 1996, pp. 30–36.
- ↑ See at LEO-BW
- ↑ Roland Franke: The place names of Bad Rappenau and the districts according to meaning and origin explained. In: Bad Rapenauer Heimatbote 8, 1996, pp. 36-38.
- ↑ Hans-Heinz Hartmann: Traces of an early medieval foundation of Rappenau , in Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 23, December 2012, pp. 20-23.
- ^ Emil Künzel: Die Freiherren von Gemmingen (-Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 7.
- ^ Emil Künzel: The barons of Gemmingen (Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 7/8.
- ^ Emil Künzel: The barons of Gemmingen (Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, pp. 7-13.
- ↑ 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. 22
- ^ 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. 478 .
- ↑ a b c 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. 479 .
- ^ 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. 465 .
- ^ City of Bad Rappenau, municipal council election 2019 , accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ Sebastian Frei elected the new mayor . Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 5, 2017, accessed on August 26, 2020 . .
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^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 ( District and community arms in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 1). P. 42 - ^ Anne Goebel: Eternal Summer. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 6, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ The bikini gets a museum. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 6, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ^ Art Association Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau eV and Michael Steiner Gallery
- ↑ Herbert Kaletta: Stadtbahn Nord completely finished in 2014 at the earliest from Stimme.de, September 30, 2011 (accessed on September 11, 2013)
- ↑ VHS Unterland branch offices .
literature
- Gustav Neuwirth: History of the City of Bad Rappenau . City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 1978.
- Bettina Bernhard: Salty sea air in the sunny south. Bad Rappenau . In: Cult baths and bath culture in Baden-Württemberg. Edited by W. Niess, S. Lorenz. Marktstein, Filderstadt 2004. ISBN 3-935129-16-5
- Michael Konnerth: The Bad Rappenau spa in transition (1990-1999) . Konnerth, Gundelsheim 2000.
- Edgar Swinne: Interned in Bad Rappenau . ERS-Verlag, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-928577-58-1
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