Bismarckstrasse (Bad Kissingen)

The assassination attempt on Chancellor Otto von Bismarck on July 13, 1874

The Bismarck Street is located in Bad Kissingen , the district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen and is home to several monuments of the town .

history

The street, which was originally called Saalestraße , represents the Saaletalstraße on the right bank of the Franconian Saale . In its southern section, the Bismarckstraße developed into the arterial road to Hammelburg . Due to a certain distance from the actual urban settlement as well as the free location over the course of the river, the street developed into a main axis of the spa district, which has been expanding since the Biedermeier period , since the first half of the 19th century . The largely one-sided development of Bismarckstrasse began in its northern section opposite the old town at the level of the Bad Kissinger rose garden between Schweizerhaussteg and Ludwigsbrücke with a gradual settlement of larger hotels such as the Fürstenhof (Bismarckstrasse 6).

In the southern section of Bismarckstrasse, with the Westendhaus (Bismarckstrasse 24) as the starting point, settled at a slow pace until the First World War , taking advantage of the favorable location on the hillside, curvillas and sanatoriums.

In the northern section of Bismarckstrasse ( Bismarckstrasse 16 ), the journeyman cooper Eduard Kullmann carried out an assassination attempt on Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in protest against his Kulturkampf . There is a memorial plaque made by the sculptor Michael Arnold in 1874 at the site of the attack .

When, after Bismarck's last spa stay in Hausen (today part of Bad Kissingen), it was foreseeable that the former Reich Chancellor would not continue to stay at a spa due to his poor health, the city council of Bad Kissingen decided on August 10, 1893 to rename Saalestrasse to Bismarckstrasse . As the local Saale newspaper reported on August 17, 1893, Mayor Theobald von Fuchs had called on Bismarck the day before. As Fuchs emphasized, the street deserves a name after Bismarck, in which the Chancellor was saved from great danger. Bismarck was delighted with the proposed honor and gave his consent to the renaming.

photo	address	annotation
	Bismarckstrasse 6	Former hotel, first Bellevue, then de Bavière, lastly Fürstenhof
	Bismarckstrasse 6 (Bismarckstrasse 6, Marbachweg 4)	Villa with enclosure, 1884
	Bismarckstrasse 16	Memorial plaque to the assassination attempt on Chancellor Prince Bismarck on July 13, 1874 in Bad Kissingen
	Bismarckstrasse 21	Kiosk, 1911
	Luitpoldpark (address: Bismarckstraße 21, Im Luitpoldpark 1)	Park, 1871
	Bismarckstrasse 22	Villa, 1885
	Bismarckstrasse 23	Former bazaar and restaurant building, 1885
	Westendhaus (address: Bismarckstraße 24)	Villa, so-called Westendhaus, around 1840
	Bismarckstrasse 36	Former spa hotel (1886) with enclosure (probably around 1900) and garden house (around 1910)
	Bismarckstrasse 46	Villa, 1904
	Bismarckstrasse 56	Formerly the Kurvilla, 1912/13
	Bismarckstrasse 68; 70	Former military sanatorium, then state hospital for the disabled (1912–13) with outbuildings (1912)
	Near Bismarckstraße (in Luitpoldpark )	Former power station or electrical center for the Luitpoldbad, 1898

See also

• Otto von Bismarck in Bad Kissingen

literature

• Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 28-32 .
• Werner Eberth : Bismarck and Bad Kissingen . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1998

Web links

Commons : Bismarckstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 28 .
2. ^ Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001, p. 110
3. ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 29 .
4. ^ Werner Eberth: Bismarck and Bad Kissingen . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1998, p. 340

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 39.4 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 21.6"  E