Bad Soden (Kinzigtal)

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bad Soden
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.24 km²
Residents : 3034  (1971)
Population density : 270 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 63628
Area code : 06056
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Kinzigtal with a view of Bad Soden-Salmünster, Aufenau and Wächtersbach

Bad Soden (until 1974 Bad Soden near Saalmünster ) is a district of Bad Soden-Salmünster in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

The formerly independent spa town of Bad Soden in Hall Muenster was on July 1, 1974 the course of municipal reform in Hesse by law with the city Salmünster and the community Mernes the town of Bad Orb together .

geography

location

Bad Soden is located in the Main-Kinzig district on the northern edge of the Spessart and on the southern edge of the Vogelsberg in the Kinzig valley .

The salt flows through Bad Soden and flows into the Kinzig at Salmünster; Walking and cycling paths through the floodplains connect both parts of the city.

Neighboring places

Bad Soden borders in the north on the places Wahlert and Romsthal , in the east on the place Ahl , in the south on the place Salmünster and in the west on the place Udenhain .

history

Bad Soden was first mentioned in a document as "Sodin" in 1190.

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 (→ main article: Stolzenberg Castle)

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 ownership being taken over 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 - in the same year when the pharmacist Franz Leopold Koch (1782–1850) built the first saltwater baths with 8 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 healing treasure of nature in private hands 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 “Bad” and since then the health infrastructure has been continuously expanded. 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. With the Spessart-Therme, Bad Soden built a thermal bath and sauna landscape based on the contemporary concept of wellness .

Territorial reform On December 1, 1970, the previously independent municipality of Wahlert was incorporated into the town of Bad Soden near Salmünster in the course of territorial reform in Hesse .

The town of Bad Soden-Salmünster has existed since July 1, 1974. It was created through the merger by virtue of state law of the towns of Bad Soden near Salmünster and Salmünster and the municipality of Mernes. For Bad Soden a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1668: 021 stoves with 95 people
• 1789: 130 citizens (with farm salt)
• 1812: 128 fireplaces, 986 souls
Bad Soden: Population from 1812 to 1970
year     Residents
1812
  
 986
1834
  
 1,067
1840
  
 1,092
1846
  
 1,122
1852
  
 1,136
1858
  
 1.002
1864
  
 955
1871
  
 922
1875
  
 863
1885
  
 883
1895
  
 1,026
1905
  
 1,127
1910
  
 1,280
1925
  
 1,441
1939
  
 1,426
1946
  
 2,199
1950
  
 2.168
1956
  
 2,183
1961
  
 2,357
1967
  
 2,779
1970
  
 3,034
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
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Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 036 Protestant (= 4.08%), 847 Catholic (= 95.92%) residents
• 1961: 466 Protestant (= 19.77%), 1878 Catholic (= 79.68%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

In the town council are the CDU , the SPD and the GWL represented. Mayor is Winfried Kirchner (GWL).

coat of arms

On March 30, 1967, the city of Bad Soden near Salmünster in what was then the district of Schlüchtern , administrative district of Wiesbaden , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In blue a golden bishop's staff placed obliquely to the left, underneath a silver fountain rising from a silver fountain bowl, on the top right in a silver shield continuous black cross.

Attractions

  • Stolzenberg Castle
  • Hat lock
  • 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.
  • Bad Soden has two churches, the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius with a neo-Gothic westwork (1896) and tower, and the Protestant Church of the Redeemer.
  • Of the cafés and restaurants in the Bad Soden spa district, the "Old Kurhaus", a historicist 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 (1 liter contains approx. 90 grams of salt) is used exclusively for brine baths. The small graduation house in the spa park dates from 2006 and functions as an open-air inhalatorium; 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 and 35 ° C warm thermal water with up to 10% brine content. The log cabin sauna area with a Russian banjas , earth sauna and event sauna in the spa park can be used all year round; A visit in winter including Wenik -Quästen and cooling off in the snow offers the hardened an experience that comes very close to the original. A salt grotto (opened in 2008) 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.

  • Stolzenberg Castle

  • Parish Church of St. Laurentius

  • Parish Church of St. Laurentius (inside)

  • Huttenschloss, built by Lukas von Hutten in 1536

  • Crucifixion Group (1905)

Economy and Infrastructure

spa

Bad Soden is a health resort for rheumatism, circulation, rehabilitation and acupuncture treatment. The main base of the spa are the brine springs , which u. a. can be used for a thermal brine indoor pool.

traffic

The next train station is in Salmünster on the Fulda – Frankfurt railway line , the next motorway connection Bad Soden-Salmünster is on the A 66 (Frankfurt – Fulda).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bad Soden near Salmünster, Main-Kinzig-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ↑ Municipal reform in the district of Schlüchtern: 1.) Integration of the communities Wahlert into the city of Bad Soden near Salmünster on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2254 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
  4. ↑ 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 ]).
  5. ^ 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. 376-377 .
  6. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the city of Bad Soden near Salmünster in the district of Schlüchtern, administrative district of Wiesbaden 365 from March 30, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 16 , p. 457 , point ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,2 MB ]).