Bad Soden-Salmünster

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Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Main-Kinzig district
Height : 147 m above sea level NHN
Area : 58.6 km 2
Residents: 13,439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 229 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63628
Primaries : 06056, 06660 (Mernes)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MKK, GN, HU , SLÜ
Community key : 06 4 35 002
LOCODE : DE BNL
City structure: 11 districts

City administration address : 		Rathausstrasse 1
63628 Bad Soden-Salmünster
Website : www.badsoden-salmuenster.de
Mayor : Dominik Brasch (independent)
Location of the city of Bad Soden-Salmünster in the Main-Kinzig district
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The southeast Hessian town of Bad Soden-Salmünster is surrounded by the Spessart and Hoher Vogelsberg nature parks in the Kinzig valley . The community consists of the core districts of Salmünster and Bad Soden and the districts of Ahl , Alsberg , Eckardroth , Katholisch-Willenroth , Kerbersdorf , Mernes , Romsthal and Wahlert . Bad Soden-Salmünster, which belongs to the Main-Kinzig district, is part of the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region .

It is well connected to the Rhine-Main conurbation due to the direct motorway connection to the BAB 66 Fulda - Frankfurt and the Salmünster train station , although it is partly in the Spessart Nature Park. Several medium-sized companies and numerous service providers in the health sector are based in the city. The job structure offers an above-average number of highly qualified jobs, for example in medicine or in research and development in the automotive sector.

As a spa and health town, Bad Soden-Salmünster has a wide range of health facilities, such as the Spessart thermal baths built in 2005 or the numerous specialist clinics. The city has been designated a spa since 1928. The basis for the rating is the extremely strong thermal brine. Source investigations show that the Bad Soden-Salmünster springs exceed the minimum content of dissolved and solid components in one kilogram of water, which is required in the chemical sense for medicinal water, many times over.

The tourist infrastructure has been continuously expanded and expanded both in the commercial and in the public sector in recent years. Most recently, the city recorded 405,377 overnight stays (December 31, 2009) and about the same number of day visitors, with an upward trend (2005–2009).

geography

Geographical location

Bad Soden-Salmünster is located on the northern edge of the Spessart and the southern edge of the Vogelsberg . The core districts of Bad Soden and Salmünster are located in the Kinzig valley. The city lies on the Autobahn 66 and the railway line between Frankfurt am Main and Fulda.

The Mittelzentrum Bad Soden-Salmünster is part of the Main-Kinzig district, the administrative district of Darmstadt and the state of Hesse (Federal Republic of Germany).

The topographically highest point of the entire city mark is at 465  m above sea level. NN on the summit of the Stackenberg , northeast of Mernes.

Neighboring communities

Bad Soden-Salmünster borders in the north on the municipality of Birstein , in the east on the town of Steinau an der Straße and the non- parish Spessart estate , which surrounds the Alsberg enclave, in the south on the town of Bad Orb , and in the west on the town of Wächtersbach and the Brachttal municipality . The district of Mernes is separated from the rest of the city and borders in the west and north on the municipality-free Spessart estate, in the east on the municipality-free area Forst Aura ( district Main-Spessart ) and in the south on the municipality Jossgrund .

City structure

Franciscan monastery with the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Salmünster

The city of Bad Soden-Salmünster consists of the following eleven locations:

After the mergers carried out in the course of the regional reform in Hesse in 1970, 1972 and 1974, the entire city of Bad Soden-Salmünster consists of the core districts of Salmünster (including Hausen) and Bad Soden as well as the districts of Ahl, Alsberg, Eckardroth, and Katholisch-Willenroth (incl. Schönhof), Kerbersdorf, Mernes, Romsthal and Wahlert.

history

The city of Bad Soden-Salmünster has existed since July 1, 1974. It was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse through the merger under state law of the cities of Bad Soden near Salmünster and Salmünster and the municipality of Mernes.

Ahl

The former municipality of Ahl is located on the former Bundesstraße 40, which was the main connection from Frankfurt to Fulda until the A66 was completed. The inhabitants of the village of Ahl have always been used to travelers and traffic, because Ahl has always been on the thoroughfare between Frankfurt and Leipzig, the Reichstrasse . The armies that passed through caused great suffering in the Thirty Years 'War (1618–1648), in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and in the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1813) through billeting and looting.

The first documented mention of Ahl comes from the year 1326. In 1866 the community of Ahl in the Schlüchtern district became part of Prussia. The district was assigned to the state of Hesse in 1945 by decision of the American military authorities.

At the end of the Second World War, the village was in great danger. American tank units advancing from Salmünster and Bad Soden had taken the village. Dispersed German soldiers shot at the tanks outside the village in the direction of Steinau. An American soldier was shot dead. Since the Americans assumed that the bombardment had come from among the people of Ahl, the village was to be razed to the ground. The destruction of Ahl was scheduled for Easter Sunday, 6 p.m. The residents were evacuated to the neighboring communities with their belongings and cattle. The destruction of the village was averted primarily through the intercession of the English major Bedding, who was a prisoner of war in Bad Soden. To commemorate the rescue of the village, on March 10, 1946, the population made a solemn pledge to celebrate April 1st as a fiancé day every year , which is still happening today.

On April 1, 1972, Ahl was incorporated into the town of Bad Soden near Salmünster.

Alsberg

Alsberg, with around 170 inhabitants, is the smallest and, at 415 m above sea level, the highest district. The village is on the Eselsweg from Schlüchtern to Großheubach am Main and is surrounded by the Spessart estate . When Eilersberg was first mentioned in a document in 1313, the place must have been settled earlier. The village is one of the few hilltop settlements in the Spessart . From here there is an imposing view over the north and the Vorspessart into the middle Kinzig valley, the Taunus and the neighboring Vogelsberg.

Until 1345 Alsberg came into the sole possession of von Hutten , who had a first chapel built in Alsberg, probably as a burial place. In 1513, on the Thursday after the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the Mainz auxiliary bishop Johannes Münster consecrated a second chapel in its place. Since the nave was added during the heyday of the Alsberg pilgrimage in 1707, this building has formed the choir of the Holy Cross Church. Currently there are pilgrimages to Alsberg at the beginning of May to find the cross and on the third Sunday in September to exalt the cross. On the third weekend in September, this is linked to the Alsberg parish fair, which has been celebrated in the festival tent in the schoolyard since 1976.

The von Hutten had to sell Alsberg to Kurmainz in 1540 . Alsberg remained in Mainz until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. At the Congress of Vienna, the place as part of the Principality of Aschaffenburg and / or Aschaffenburg Department in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. After the lost German War , Bavaria Alsberg and Hausen had to cede to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866. From then on, the community was part of the Gelnhausen district for 104 years . On January 1, 1970, the previously independent community of Alsberg was incorporated into the town of Salmünster in the Schlüchtern district.

The Alsberg children had been attending school in Salmünster since 1966. In that year, the Alsberg elementary school, which had been held in its own schoolhouse since its inauguration on July 31, 1928, closed. The building has been used as a village community center since 1984. The Alsberg elementary school teacher Josef Paul (1896–1960) requested and supported the building. Numerous articles on local history and a farmer's novel go back to him as the author. Before that, the parsonage built from 1816 to 1819 - today's Café Waidmannsruh - had served as a school for a long time.

Today village life is managed by the Catholic parish of the Holy Cross, the Alsberg volunteer fire brigade. V. and the Alsberger Dorfverein e. V. coined. In 1974 the Golf Club Spessart e. V. settled in Alsberg and created a scenic 18-hole course.

In 2013 the place celebrated two big anniversaries: 500 years of parish fair and 700 years of first mention.

bad Soden

The main economic asset of the settlement has been salt since the early Middle Ages; in this respect, its history is to be viewed parallel to that of Bad Orb, which is just a few kilometers south, but differs considerably from this.

Salty springs were found in the area around 900 and came into the possession of the Fulda monastery . Around 1190, Sodin was mentioned in a document from Abbot Konrad II of Fulda (1177–1192) . In 1296 the settlement below Stolzenberg Castle was raised to the status of town by Adolf von Nassau under the name "Stolzental"; the village of salt boilers was incorporated into it and ultimately prevailed in terms of its name. Whether Stolzenberg Castle performed a protective function for the brine springs is not historically certain.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the castle was also the seat of the Lords of Hutten , who administered the town as a pledge of Fulda. After Philip the Magnanimous had taken the castle in 1522, a new Hutten residence was built in the settlement in the valley in 1536, which has been preserved as the " Huttenschloss ".

Unlike in Orb, the salt springs were buried and the salt pans closed in the 16th century . Soden was temporarily pledged to Kurmainz , but was bought back by Fulda in 1734, with the stipulation not to reactivate the brine springs as long as the saltworks with 10 graduation towers in Orb were in production; a competing company should be excluded in this way.

The secularization of the Fulda monastery in 1803 led to a takeover of ownership by the Electorate of Hesse after the reorganization in the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Since Kurmainz no longer existed in the reorganized empire, the obligation not to use the salt springs became obsolete. Nevertheless, Kurhessen rejected the new construction of a salt works as economically unprofitable. At the same time, the decline of the Orber Saline took place under the Bavarian government.

As in Orb, the use of the brine springs as medicinal water began in the 19th century. In 1837 - the same year when the pharmacist Franz Leopold Koch (1782–1850) built the first saltwater baths with eight bathing rooms in Orb - the Soden springs began to be exposed. The story of a cow has been handed down to us: Constantly licking the salt at a certain point on the meadow on the left, she encouraged the residents to dig, which brought an old well and the carbonated brine to the light of day. Relics of medieval graduation boxes have been excavated. Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen , the last elector, granted the city the right to collect the sources in 1844. The citizens used this privately at the beginning, but there were no investors. Wealthy Frankfurters - the Orber Jagdgesellschaft - invested in the Koch facilities on site, but not in the Soden springs.

It was not until 1919 that the city succeeded in reacquiring the right of use from the private operating company; new hot spring was opened up. In 1928, the city was given the title of bathroom , and the health infrastructure has been continuously expanded since then. Today the spa town has a wide range of hotels and restaurants, eight highly qualified rehabilitation clinics, comprehensive outpatient medical and therapy care and many leisure facilities.

The second largest population of the entire city live in Bad Soden.

Hausen

Hausen used to be a small hamlet. The settlement was first mentioned in 1319 under the name husen . It is assumed that the Fulda Abbey built a moated castle at this point to protect Salmünster very early on. This was surrounded by two moats, which explains the earlier place name Hausen zu den Brucken : The way to the castle led over two bridges.

In 1345 Friedrich von Hutten bought the castle from the lords of Jazza [Jossa]. And in 1540 Kurmainz acquired Alsberg and Hausen. At the same time they had acquired a share of Salmünster, because this town had several ownership structures at the time. The electoral government in Mainz set up its own Oberamt in Hausen in the newly acquired area. When the Salmünster pledge was redeemed by Fulda in 1734 and returned to the bishopric, the Hausen Oberamt lost more and more of its importance. Finally, at the end of the 18th century, Kurmainz moved the seat of the Oberamt from Hausen to Orb. From then on, the property was administered from there. The border between Kurmainz and the Fulda monastery was the little holy house that still stands on Spessartstrasse today.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Orb, Alsberg and Hausen passed into Bavarian ownership before becoming Prussian in 1866. For 104 years, Hausen was a district of Alsberg and part of the Gelnhausen district. On January 1, 1970 Alsberg was incorporated with Hausen. The last mayor of this administrative unit was the Alsberger Karl Müller. The two villages became districts of Salmünster (then Schlüchtern district).

In the state gazette for the state of Hesse (edition 3/1970) it is written: Due to […] the Hessian municipality code […] the area of ​​the former municipality Alsberg with the previous district Hausen in the city of Salmünster is given the name with effect from January 1st 1970 "District Alsberg", "District Hausen". Darmstadt, December 24, 1969, The District President.

This proves that Hausen is actually a separate district of today's spa town. But history is not doing justice to only these historical facts. Hausen and Alsberg formed an administrative unit for over a century. But the Hausener oriented themselves more towards Salmünster - not least because of the spatial proximity. They went to church there, went shopping and celebrated parties together. The children went to school there. And the two districts grew closer and closer together over the years and decades. For many citizens it seemed only logical that Hausen and Salmünster got together in 1970. Hausen has therefore been represented by the Salmünster local advisory board since then.

The Huttengrund

Huttengrund complete with the five districts

The Huttengrund is a side valley of the Kinzig valley. The salt flows through it, which comes from the Vogelsberg and flows into the Kinzig near Salmünster. The Huttengrund includes the districts of Romsthal, Eckardroth and Wahlert of the city of Bad Soden-Salmünster. The Huttengrund is named after the von Hutten noble family who ruled there for centuries.

In the Middle Ages, the villages of the Huttisches Grund belonged to Soden Castle and the former Salmünster Imperial Court. At that time Eckardroth was used by stray robber gangs as a shelter and as a starting point for escaping from the Hutt patrimonial "abroad".

The respective places not only merge almost seamlessly, their citizens also recognized the need for cooperation early on and so the three places are closely intertwined today.

Eckardroth

The district area, on which Eckardroth is located today, came to the Fulda Monastery as part of the Mark Salz around 900. However, Eckardroth was first mentioned in documents under the name Ekharterode in 1356, which of course does not mean that the district was not settled before this time. The name Ekharterode goes back to the first or last name Ekhart and the Roden .

In 1805, the parish of Romsthal / Eckardroth built the large baroque church of St. Franziskus, which was expanded in 1905.

An active Jewish community shaped the place until the Third Reich. There is still a Jewish cemetery at the entrance to the village on the left, which is open to the public.

On April 1, 1972, the independent community was incorporated into the town of Bad Soden near Salmünster.

Romsthal

The historically most important place in Huttschen Grund was first mentioned in 1365 under the name Ramstal . On December 1, 1970, it was incorporated into the city of Salmünster.

Romsthal is now the largest district in Huttengrund. Here you will find the primary school, the Huttengrundhalle and the historic Huttenschlößchen , which was built in 1749 and is also known as the manor house. Besides Romsthal, Wahlert & Eckardroth also belong to Huttengrund. The Catholic Church in Romsthal is called St. Franziskus. Romsthal also has a kindergarten.

Mansion Romsthal

On the way from Bad Soden-Salmünster towards Vogelsberg, the Salztal known as Huttengrund opens up. Named after the von Hutten family, who owned land in Romsthal, Eckardroth, Kerbersdorf, Wahlert and partly in Marborn for centuries. Little is known about the history of the official seat there on the castle mentioned in the 14th century and collapsed in 1783. The castle mill, named in 1757, and a building named the hunter's house in 1765, belonged to the estate. Presumably it is the present mansion. A lintel with the Hutt coat of arms and the year 1742 allows this conclusion. The architecturally attractive mansion is a two-storey rectangular building with a crooked hip roof and dormer windows. A stair tower with a half-timbered end and Welscher hood opens it up on the back. In 1904, Bogdan Graf von Hutten-Czapski came into possession of the Huttisches Grund. The manor house owes its structural expansion to him to include two window axes, the extended entrance area and the park.

Wahlert

The place Wahlert first mentioned in 1326 under the name Waldenrode .

On December 1, 1970, it was incorporated into the town of Bad Soden near Salmünster. Today Wahlert is the smallest district in Huttengrund.

Catholic Willenroth

The place was first mentioned in 1339 under the name Wilnrode . On July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into the city of Salmünster.

Today, the predominantly agricultural Catholic Willenroth with the hamlet of Schönhof is one of the smaller districts of Bad Soden-Salmünster.

Due to its location on the ascent to Vogelsberg, the district offers numerous hiking opportunities.

Kerbersdorf

The Kerbersdorf district, first mentioned in a document as "Korberstorf" in 1447, is located above the Huttengrund. Kerbersdorf has its own small primary school.

Kerbersdorf was incorporated into the city of Salmünster on December 1, 1970. Today around 460 people live here.

Mernes

Mernes is the southernmost district of Bad Soden-Salmünster in the Main-Kinzig district. The village is nestled in the Jossatal in the Hessian Spessart nature park at the foot of the “Stacken” mountain top (465 m) and is a state-approved resort. Mernes is first mentioned in 1267 as Mernolfes , on a map from the 16th century the place is called Merles. It has a little less than 900 inhabitants. When the new town of Soden-Salmünster was formed, Mernes was added on July 1, 1974 as the third municipality.

Salmunster

The cityscape of Salmünster is characterized by two churches. In the old town rises the baroque Catholic parish church, from 1650 to 2004 also the monastery church of the affiliated Franciscan monastery , in whose building there is now an education and retreat house for the diocese of Fulda. The Protestant Reconciliation Church is a simple building in the neo-Gothic style.

The economy consists essentially of retail and automotive suppliers.

Salmünster can be reached by traffic via the junction with the A 66 motorway (Frankfurt-Fulda). There is also a railway station in Bad Orb with connections to Frankfurt and Fulda in every hour .

Population development

The table shows the population on June 6, 1961 and May 27, 1970 (censuses).

Surname Ew.
1961		 Ew.
1970
Ahl 420 536
bad Soden 2357 2902
Eckardroth 520 532
Catholic Willenroth 226 243
Kerbersdorf 302 408
Mernes 706 767
Romsthal 638 669
Salmunster 3006 3467
Wahlert 126 132

politics

City Council

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

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
    
A total of 37 seats
  • SPD : 10
  • FDP : 1
  • CDU : 14
  • GWL : 12
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 39.0 14th 44.5 16 45.4 17th 43.4 16
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 25.8 10 28.5 11 23.6 9 25.2 9
GWL Bad Soden-Salmünster joint electoral roll 31.1 12 24.2 9 27.8 10 25.9 10
THE LEFT The left - - 2.7 1 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 4.1 1 - - 3.2 1 5.6 2
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 50.0 45.6 42.9 53.0

mayor

Dominik Brasch (independent) has been Mayor of Bad Soden-Salmünster since August 1, 2018. He succeeded Lothar Büttner, who was previously elected in 2000, 2006 and 2012 and thus held the office of mayor for 18 years, but who did not run again in the election on April 15, 2018. Büttner's predecessor was Bruno Döring (CDU) between 1994 and 2000.

Town twinning

coat of arms

On February 8, 1978, the city of Bad Soden-Salmünster was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In blue on the left St. Boniface in a golden bishop's robe and with a golden miter, holding the silver crook in his left hand, raised his right hand in blessing, at his feet a silver shield with a continuous black cross; on the right a silver fountain rising from a golden fountain bowl with a golden base.

Culture and sights

Indian Summer at the Kinzigstalsperre

The dam in Ahl is a sight; but the church is also one of the city's attractions. The Mariengrotte, also in Ahl, is a well-known meeting place for believers.

Passion play

The Passion Plays located in Salmünster are known far beyond the borders of the district. The passion of Jesus Christ is performed every three to four years in the baroque parish church of St. Peter and Paul . Over 3000 spectators watch the Passion Play there.

Theater ensemble feel-X

The theater ensemble feel-X e. V. was founded on June 8, 2001 in Bad Soden-Salmünster. Feel-X is an artificial word, created from the name of the initiator Felix Wiedergrün MA and the feeling that you can experience in the diverse theater offer under the motto "Experience - Diversity - Emotions". The semi-professional theater ensemble presents both tabloid pieces as well as historical games and classics of world literature. At irregular intervals, the actors also bring plays from the field of children's and youth theater onto the stage. The ensemble feel-X e. V., which is also a member of the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater e. V. has made a name far beyond regional borders. In addition to the permanent venue in the Spessart FORUM-Kultur, feel-X plays on the open-air stage in the Kurpark, the open-air stage in the Schleifrashof or the open-air stage on the Stolzenberg castle ruins. The aim of the “Facade Paints” project (FF for short) is to present the medieval old town of Salmünster to the citizens and guests of the spa town of Bad Soden-Salmünster in a special light and to offer insights into the history of the town and the lives of important personalities who are closely related to the City history are linked. In 2018 the "Facade Colors" will take place for the first time in the spa gardens of Bad Soden-Salmünster under the title "Kurparkfarben". [obsolete] Spread over the year, the actors slip into historical personalities of Salmünster's city history as part of the “Salmünster theater tours” and give an insight into life on the Via Regia, which led through the middle of the old town of Salmünster. On the initiative of the ensemble feel-X e. V. formed the project group “Stolpersteine ​​Altstadt Salmünster” in 2016. On November 8, 2018, on the occasion of the 80th day of remembrance of the atrocities of the Reichspogromnacht, the artist Gunter Demnig laid the first nine stumbling blocks in Salmünster.

Buildings

Ahl

  • Church (Patronage: Immaculate Conception)
  • Mary's Grotto

bad Soden

Stolzenberg castle ruins in Bad Soden
  • The keep of the Stolzenberg castle ruins (first mentioned in 1252) high above the city has been accessible as a viewing tower since 1970, from which one overlooks the city of Bad Soden, the Kinzig valley and the outskirts of Hohem Vogelsberg and Spessart.
  • The most important historical building in the valley is the Huttenschloss , a late medieval building with bay windows, a high stepped gable and a stair tower. It was built in 1536 by Lukas von Hutten and his wife Apollonia von Frankenstein after they lost their original residence at Stolzenberg Castle. It was continuously inhabited by different lines of the family until 1814. Lukas von Hutten's great-nephew Johann extended the first building with a side wing (dated 1594) and a stables (1599). After the von Hutten line died out, ownership changed. First , in 1819 , Jean Pierre Dupré (1762–1848), a timber merchant from the Rhineland-Palatinate , bought the castle. In 1875 Georg Vitriarius, who owned the rights to use the city's revitalized brine springs, set up the first private bathing establishment in the basement. The saline healing water was transported from the springs to the castle in wooden barrels. In 1901 it was sold to the yarn manufacturer Johann Adolf Krafft from Offenbach, who modernized it and converted it into a summer residence for his family with an English landscape park. In the 20th century it was the headquarters of various companies and since 1998 it has been used as an open-air theater.
  • Built in 1703 former town hall Bad Soden is (added 1866) (now registry office) with a hipped roof and onion dome is the only Baroque - timbered -Rathaus Hesse. It houses a wedding room with period furniture and is the seat of a sewing group for historical costumes.
The cath. St. Laurentius Church
  • Bad Soden has two churches, the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius with a neo-Gothic westwork (1896) and tower as well as the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, a tent church built in 1964–1967 in concrete skeleton construction , in which the several meter large glass object “The human God - The Divine Man ”by Benedikt W. Traut is located.
  • Of the cafés and restaurants in the Bad Soden spa district, the "Alte Kurhaus", a Wilhelminian style building from 1886, is the oldest. The König-Heinrich -sprudel, which leaked on September 25, 1928 and has since been re-drilled twice (1974 and 1984), is accessible in the spa gardens and is one of the most iron-bearing springs in Germany. The non-potable water (one liter contains approx. 90 grams of salt) is used exclusively for brine baths. The small graduation tower in the spa park dates from 2006; There was never a historical black thorn grinder for concentrating and cleaning the brine before the boiling process in Bad Soden, where only the older box grading technique was used.
  • The center of the contemporary spa district is the Spessart-Therme (2005) with 28 ° C to 35 ° C warm thermal water with up to 10% brine content. The log cabin sauna landscape in the style of Russian banjas in the spa park is primarily intended for the summer. A salt grotto with walls and floor made from the salt of the Dead Sea is used for 45-minute inhalation at 45% humidity and a temperature of 22 ° C. The application in this special microclimate serves to clear the upper respiratory tract.

Hausen

Mernes

  • St. Peter in Mernes

Romsthal

  • St. Francis and St. Elisabeth

Salmunster

Regular events

The old town festival in Salmünster takes place on the first weekend in August. The fountain festival in Bad Soden takes place annually in August. The castle festival in the Bad Soden district has been replaced by the summer festival in the castle, also in Bad Soden, and takes place at the end of June.

Kinzigtal totally

Once a year, the Kinzigtal Total Cycle Sunday takes place.

Watzstock Festival

The one-day Watzstock Festival takes place in Katholisch-Willenroth from the end of May to the beginning of June .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Kinzig valley bridge northeast of the city

education

In Salmünster there is the Henry Harnischfeger School, both a primary school and an integrated comprehensive school, which is responsible for the entire area. Another primary school is located in Bad Soden. There are also dwarf schools in Romsthal and Kerbersdorf. In Kerbersdorf, all four grades are taught in one class.

Major companies

The globally active automotive supplier Woco is based in Bad Soden-Salmünster.

people

Honorary citizen

  • Karl (old: Carl) Roth - source chemist
  • Major Geoffrey Bedding - New Zealand major, prevented the destruction of Ahl in 1945
  • Valentin Rudolph Berta (1849–1928) - Mayor of Bad Soden-Salmünster 1881–1904 and member of the municipal assembly in Kassel

sons and daughters of the town

Well-known people related to the city

literature

  • Fr Damasus Fuchs: History of the collegiate monastery and the parish of St. Apostles Peter and Paul in Salmünster. Fulda 1912.
  • Author collective: Salmünster. From the past of an old town in the Kinzig valley. Festive edition on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the city's renunciation, o. O. 1970.
  • Georg-Wilhelm Hanna : Castles and palaces in the Kinzig valley . Hanau 1992.
  • Collective of authors: 25 years of the spa town of Bad Soden-Salmünster. 1974-1999. Published by the spa town of Bad Soden-Salmünster, Bad Soden-Salmünster 1999.
  • Florian Betz: Alsberg in the Hinterspessart, 1814–1867. Microhistorical case study of a Bavarian mountain village . Büchner-Verlag, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-941310-26-1 .

Web links

Commons : Bad Soden-Salmünster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Bad Soden-Salmünster  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 12 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): 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. 376-377 .
  4. ↑ Municipal directory 1970 to 1982 "
  5. ↑ Hess. State Archives Marburg, Urk. 72, No. 263 = old signature: Urk. O II e, from Küchenmeister, 1313-01-10.
  6. ↑ Decree of the Hessian Minister of the Interior of December 17, 1969 – IV A 22–3 k 08 / 05–3 / 69 – Subject: Incorporation of the Alsberg community, Gelnhausen district, into the city of Salmünster, Schlüchtern district
  7. ↑ Josef Paul: The salt blackers from Alsberg. Verl. Orbensien, Bad Orb 2012, ISBN 978-3-927176-31-7
  8. ↑ "700 Years Alsberg" on the city's website
  9. ^ "Burg Hausen (Salmünster), Main-Kinzig-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 26, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  11. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  12. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  13. ↑ Dominik Brasch is the new mayor of Bad Soden-Salmünster. In: fuldaerzeitung.de. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Mayor election of Bad Soden-Salmünster on April 15, 2018. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed on August 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the city of Bad Soden-Salmünster, Main-Kinzig-Kreis dated February 8, 1978 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1978 No. 9 , p. 445 , point 291 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7,8 MB ]).
  16. ↑ GJP (Götz J. Pfeiffer): Altar object W. Benedict Traut, in: the courage to figures. Art funding in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel, 2013, pp. 20–21.
  17. ↑ Spessart thermal baths
  18. ↑ Brine content
  19. ↑ Thermal brine bathing area. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
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