Bad Salty

Bad Salty City of Boppard
	Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 59 ″ E
Height :	95 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.2 km²
Residents :	2460 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	586 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1975
Postal code :	56154
Area code :	06742
Location of Bad Salzig in Rhineland-Palatinate

Bad Salzig on August 26, 2009

Captain Theodor Hoffmann, discoverer of the springs (bust at the entrance to the spa gardens)

Bad Salzig is one of ten districts in the city of Boppard on the left bank of the Rhine . On the right side of the Rhine opposite the enemy brothers Burg Liebenstein and Burg Sterrenberg tower high above the Rhine . Until December 31, 1975 Bad Salzig was an independent municipality.

climate

The annual precipitation is 667 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 33% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 1% of the measuring stations .

history

Bad Salzig is located on the historic Roman road that ran along the Rhine from Mainz via Koblenz to Cologne . A place Salissone appears on a Roman station directory from 215 , but it is unclear whether it is really today's Bad Salzig. In 1859 two milestones from the Roman Empire (3rd century) were recovered from the Rhine, which are now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn .

A place called Salzachu , mentioned in a deed of donation from King Conrad I to the St. Ursula monastery (confirmed by Hermann I , Archbishop of Cologne , 922) is generally recognized as the first documentary mention.

In the following centuries, Salzig was part of the Boppard Empire . When Boppard lost its imperial immediacy in 1327 and was pledged by King Heinrich VII to his brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier , Salzig also came to the electorate. At the end of the 15th century there were unsuccessful revolts against the rule of the Electorate of Trier .

Salzig suffered damage from foreign rule during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) , when Louis XIV's troops invaded the Rhineland (1688/89) and during the Napoleonic period (1794–1814).

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the history of Salzig generally coincided with that of the Prussian Rhine Province (1822). In particular, the opening of the spa in 1907 is a landmark for the development of the place. The salty and sulfurous springs had been known since the 18th century, but only Captain Theodor Hoffmann , who had acquired the site in 1899, managed to drill them. After several attempts, thermal water at a temperature of 28 ° C was obtained at a depth of 449 m. However, Salzig has only had the addition of “bath” since 1925. Since 2003, the initiator of the bath has been erected at the entrance to the spa gardens.

On December 31, 1975, Bad Salzig was incorporated into the new municipality of Boppard.

Like other places in the Middle Rhine Valley, Bad Salzig has to cope with a sharp decline in population, from the peak in 1973 with 3,424 inhabitants, the number of inhabitants has now fallen below 2,500.

politics

The local council in Bad Salzig consists of 13 honorary council members, who were last elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the also honorary mayor as chairman. The local elections from 2019 brought five seats for the CDU , four for the SPD , three seats for the Free Voters' Group Boppard and one seat for Boppard for the citizens.

Mayor is Andreas Nick (SPD). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Wolfgang Spitz (CDU) with a share of 51.2% of the vote, after none of the original three candidates achieved the necessary majority in the local election on May 26, 2019.

Public facilities

One of the three primary schools in the city of Boppard and a Catholic day-care center are located in the local district.

traffic

Road traffic

The B 9 runs between the Bad Salzig district and the Rhine . This bypass, built in 1968, improved the tourist quality of the town center by relieving traffic.

Rail transport

Bad Salzig has the Boppard-Bad Salzig rail stop on the left bank of the Rhine . This stop is served every hour by a local transport line that commutes between Mainz and Cologne and thus also connects Bad Salzig with the core city of Boppard. The stop has two platform tracks with a length of 295 m and a platform height of 34 cm. Since this is to be standardized to 76 cm at all stops and stations on the left-hand Rhine route, the Boppard city council decided in 2011 to modernize the Bad Salzig station in the following years and, in particular, to raise the edge of the platform.

The breakpoint used to be a train station. It was opened in 1881. The station building still exists today and is a listed building . It is used as a cultural and club center. A local museum has been set up in the attic of the old train station .

Relief of ships on April 1, 1955

Shipping

The village's roadstead has been in use since the 19th century, where the Bad Salzig customs clearance point was later set up until 1980 .

In 1968 Bad Salzig was integrated into the Cologne-Düsseldorfer Rhine shipping .

From Bad Salzig (km 564.3) is the Rhine in the second largest CEMT - waterway class classified (VIc).

Attractions

Pietà in St. Giles

The neo-Gothic parish church of St. Giles , built in 1901 using older buildings, goes back to previous buildings that can be dated back to the 10th century. The patron saint, St. Aegidius , is represented as a wooden sculpture from the 14th century on the high altar with his characteristic attribute, the doe. The right of the three late Gothic glass windows in the choir also depicts the Holy Helper with the beast. The other two choir windows (left: Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, middle: Christ between two angels) also date from the same period. In the left aisle there is a Pietà from the second half of the 15th century.
In 2008 a local history museum was opened in the “Alter Bahnhof” cultural and association center. It documents the history of Bad Salzig as a wine and fruit location as well as a spa based on photos, documents and tools.

Viticulture and fruit growing

Viticulture on this section of the Middle Rhine has been known since the Middle Ages. While the well-known steep slopes of the Bopparder Hamm (80% Riesling) produce first-class quality wines, which are regularly awarded prizes, viticulture around Salzig has not recovered after the destruction caused by the introduction of phylloxera in the 19th century. At the end of the 18th century, an inventory of the Electorate of Trier had counted over 400,000 vines. A wine trading company in Koblenz had both white and red wine made from salty on offer. The grape varieties are no longer traceable.

The company switched to fruit growing, especially cherries. In the years from 1948 to 1960, a traditional flower festival with flower queen and parades took place once a year. Even today, the cherry blossom in spring around the place is a tourist attraction. The weathered boundary walls of the former vineyards can still be seen on the hiking trails through the cherry plantations starting from the spa district.

Spa

For many years from 1907, the medicinal water of the carbonated, alkaline-muratic Leonoren spring (Glauber's salt spring) gushed from a depth of 446 m, which was qualified as a “sodium chloride hydrogen carbonate sulphate acid” and was used for drinking cures. The Barbara spring, which was drilled at the same time, was 280 m deep. However, it silted up today. The healing spring protection of the Leonorenquelle expired in 2004 and was not renewed by the public sector. After the spring was clogged for decades and only little water came to light and since the spring is important for the Bad Salziger identity, its owner had it cleaned by the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011. The well builders removed a plug at a depth of 217 m. Since then, the spring has produced 3,000 liters an hour again, previously it was 400 liters.

The Mittelrhein-Klinik (178 beds), today a specialist clinic of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate for psychosomatic and oncological rehabilitation, no longer prescribes drinking cures with the water.

The extensive spa park with historical trees, a pond and promenade paths is part of the Mittelrhein Clinic with leisure and events facilities for patients, but is also open to the public. The spa area also includes the historic bath house with the former drinking hall, which was redesigned by the artist Ursula Bertram . The spring water of the Leonorenquelle , which is no longer used for therapeutic purposes, can be sampled here.

The Park Hotel, which was built in 1908 by Miss Emma Trost for spa guests, is also located at the spa gardens.

Environment and hiking trails

Five lakes view tower near Bad Salzig

The Rheinburgenweg leads through the spa gardens of Bad Salzig , which is a long-distance hiking trail to the north in the direction of Boppard (Rheinhöhe Eisenbolz with cherry tree plantations) and to the south (orchards in the direction of Hirzenach ) attractive vantage points of the Rhine, Bad Salzig, the villages opposite ( Kamp- Bornhofen and Kestert ) as well as the hostile brothers .

In addition, there has been a dream loop on the Rheinburgenweg from the Bad Salzig spa park since summer 2012 (circular hiking trail, 10.5 km). This leads to the rocky Hochlay and past the viewpoint Fünf-Seen-Blick (resting place with a lounger in a curve of the road coming down from the Fleckertshöhe ) to the 27.4 m high observation tower of the Fünfseenblick , inaugurated in 2014 , further uphill over the Fleckertshöhe and down again through orchards in the Weilerbachtal . Past the viewpoint of the praying nun and through the hamlet of Weiler , the loop above the center of Bad Salzig leads back to the spa gardens.

Views

View from Liebenstein Castle over the Rhine to Bad Salzig

View from the Fünfseenblick observation tower over Bad Salzig and the surrounding area

literature

Josef Dörr: The cure tour. Hikes and cures in 22 health resorts in Rhineland-Palatinate . Koblenz 1983, p. 20-30 .
Heinrich Stein, Rector i. R .: Bad Salzig - a local chronicle . Ed .: Municipality of Bad Salzig. 1969.
JF Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (draftsman): FC Vogel's panorama of the Rhine, pictures of the right and left banks of the Rhine . Lithographic institute FC Vogel, Frankfurt 1833 ( picture by Salzig ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ List of the Salziger milestones. (PDF) Retrieved June 5, 2016 .

↑ ^a ^b Lilo Hagen: Theodor von Baginski or Captain Hoffmann. In: The RHEINPFALZ. April 5, 2003, accessed March 10, 2015.

↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 160 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

↑ Demographic change: Boppard is losing fewer residents than feared. ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 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. In: Rhein Zeitung. Retrieved January 10, 2014. @1@ 2

↑ Local elections 2019 - results of the Bad-Salzig Local Advisory Council 2019. City of Boppard, accessed on August 19, 2019 .

↑ City of Boppard: Runoff election for the Mayor of Bad Salzig 2019. Accessed on October 3, 2019 .

^ Opinion on the 2011 budget of the city of Boppard. In: Middle Rhine Courier. Retrieved January 30, 2011.

↑ Bad Salzig. In: www.regionalgeschichte.net. Retrieved January 19, 2012.

^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 15 (PDF; 1.7 MB).

^ Bad Salzig am Rhein: local history museum ; Retrieved January 30, 2011

↑ See also the article inland waterway (chapter on Class_VIc) and inland waterways of the Federal Republic of Germany - Section III. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Wasserstraßendirektion Süedwest, p. 4 , archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on November 29, 2018 (km 564.3).

↑ Wolfgang Wendling: Bad Salzig: Danger for mineral springs. In: Rheinzeitung. April 18, 2008 (PDF; 36 kB).

↑ Leonorenquelle Bad Salzig bubbles like in primeval times. Retrieved June 19, 2012

↑ Leonorenquelle gushes again from the depths. In: Rheon newspaper. Retrieved December 9, 2011.

↑ The Fünfseenblick observation tower ... inaugurated. City of Boppard, May 7, 2014, accessed November 2, 2017.

[1] List of the Salziger milestones. (PDF) Retrieved June 5, 2016 .

[Hagen-2] Lilo Hagen: Theodor von Baginski or Captain Hoffmann. In: The RHEINPFALZ. April 5, 2003, accessed March 10, 2015.

[3] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 160 (PDF; 2.8 MB).