Bad Säckingen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 57' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg | |
| County : | Waldshut | |
| Height : | 290 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 25.34 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 17,144 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 677 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 79713 | |
| Primaries : | 07761, 07763 | |
| License plate : | WT | |
| Community key : | 08 3 37 096 | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 1 79713 Bad Säckingen |
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| Mayor : | Alexander Guhl ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Bad Säckingen in the Waldshut district | ||
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Bad Säckingen ( Alemannic Bad Säckinge ; [ˈsekxɪŋə] ) is a spa town in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) on the Upper Rhine , about 35 km upstream from Basel .
geography
Geographical location
Bad Säckingen is located on the Upper Rhine , which forms the border with Switzerland here. The city is located on the southern edge of the Hotzenwald , which is the southern branch of the Black Forest . Part of the Fridolin Island in the Rhine also belongs to the city , the territory of which was not known for a long time. In 2013 a new state treaty stipulated that it should belong to Germany in the future.
City structure
The city of Bad Säckingen consists of the following former municipalities (core towns with their districts):
- Harpolingen with the Lochmühle and Rüttehof farms and the Holdmatt houses
- Rippolingen with the Flut homestead and the Santihof houses
- Säckingen with the Obersäckingen district and the houses on the Bergsee
- Wallbach
history
Säckingen (since 1978 Bad Säckingen, 878 as Seckinga first mentioned) is traditionally considered a founding Alemanni called Secco. The name of the city, however, was most likely derived from the Germanization of a Roman place name ( Sanctio ) (similar to Aachen , Baden-Baden and others), possibly from the name of the Diocletian province Maxima Sequanorum , founded in 297 AD .
The 354 in the alliance with the Romans genötigte Alemanni tribe of Brisgavi undertook in the spring of 361 an incursion into the neighboring Rätien . The Roman general, Caesar , commander in Gaul , and the later Emperor Julian “sent a small crowd to meet them; but their leader was killed in the first attack, and [...] the looters were able to carry their booty across the Rhine undamaged. They belonged to the tribe of King Vadomar , who ruled in the southern Black Forest. ”Julian had Vadomar“ captured and brought him to Spain. Then he unexpectedly broke across the Rhine himself, punished the Alemanni for their raid, took their booty away from them and obtained security for their future behavior. ”According to information from home history, the killing of the leader of the first troop is confirmed and their actions Localized to Säckingen: Under the leadership of comes Libino , the Roman troops reached Säckingen prope oppidum Sanctio , which at that time probably belonged to Breisgau .
In the Latin text of the Fridolinsvita (970) Säckingen is called Secanis and Seconis (sound a> o) and also Seconia, documented in 1207 . Seconis is to be interpreted as the local casus of Seconia , which can easily be derived from Sequaniacum (= Shrine of Sequana ) in terms of linguistic history . According to the belief of the Celts, the goddess of springs, healing arts and health revealed herself in the swampy soil of the salt thermal baths in Säckingen ( seik - " trickling flow", Sequana - "daughter of the springs").
The author of the Fridolinsvita was based on a concept that had probably emerged as early as the 8th century and had preferred the pre-Alemannic place name. However, the emerging tax cadastre of the Franks could not do without Seckinga .
In the documents of the 13th century the Celto-Roman place name was used again as a sign of erudition: 1275 Sigillum Civium Seconiensium = seal of the citizens of the city of Seconis ( Seconiis = "at the Seconia temple").
The city of Säckingen originated in the vicinity of the monastery of the same name , the founding of which is attributed to St. Fridolin . The source in its value-assessed as unsafe Holy Life of Fridolin reported that the monastery was founded under the protection of the Frankish King Clovis I was. However, such an early emergence is now being questioned. Instead, it is assumed that the monastery was founded in the 7th century, i.e. during the reign of Clovis II. In the 9th century, the monastery is remarkably close to the Carolingians, when at least one daughter of Louis the German , Bertha , and the wife of Charles III. named Richardis were abbesses . There was also a distant connection to the ruling family of the Ottonians. In the 10th century Reglind, grandmother of Adelheid , wife of Otto the Great , was abbess of the Säckingen monastery. When a fire destroyed large parts of the city (including the collegiate church) in 1272, the construction of the Gothic minster, which bears the name Fridolinsmünster , began around 1300 .
After the battle of Rheinfelden and after the death of Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar in July 1639 at the age of 35, Johann Ludwig von Erlach from Bern was given command of his troops and succeeded him as major general in Breisach . When in 1639 Säckingen was sacked by 300 imperial horsemen, he immediately sent help under Colonel Rosen to the forest cities. Until the peace negotiations in Münster in 1646, things remained quiet in Rheinfelden, the four forest towns were supposed to fall to France in exchange for Breisach. This plan did not prevail. The war devastated all of Germany for almost 10 years until the Peace of Westphalia was proclaimed on October 24, 1648. But the Franco-Dutch War from 1672 to 1679 soon followed. The Duke Karl of Lorraine and Marshal Créquy took up quarters in Rheinfelden and at Beuggen Castle . The War of Palatinate Succession followed in 1688 and then the War of Spanish Succession . The abbesses of this era had to flee, the relics (the coffin with St. Fridolin) and other things were brought to friendly monasteries (Baden in Aargau, later also to Bernau Castle and Klingnau ).
In 1796 the city was occupied by French troops in the French Revolutionary War . In 1805 the city became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden . The monastery was dissolved in 1806.
Before the right arm of the Rhine was filled in in 1830, the city lay on an island on the Rhine and was connected to the surrounding area by bridges. Today there are two bridges from the German side (Bad Säckingen) to the Swiss side ( Stein ): At 203.7 meters, the wooden bridge is the longest covered wooden bridge in Europe. The St. Fridolins Bridge for motor vehicle traffic was inaugurated in 1979. On this bridge there is a statue of Fridolin by the Swiss sculptor Rolf Brem .
In 1973 the district of Säckingen was dissolved. Since then, the city has been part of the Waldshut district. On April 1, 1972, the previously independent municipalities of Rippolingen and Wallbach were incorporated. Harpolingen followed on January 1, 1973.
Coats of arms of the former municipalities
Wallbach
Rippolingen
Harpolingen
The city was awarded the title “ Bad ” on June 1, 1978. In 1997 the Baden-Württemberg Home Days took place in Bad Säckingen and the neighboring weir .
As part of the Europe-wide competition Entente Florale Europe , Bad Säckingen was named one of the five most beautiful cities in Europe on September 19, 2003. The international jury particularly emphasized the location on the Rhine , the wonderful parks (including the palace gardens ), the restored buildings, the renatured watercourses in the urban area ( Schöpfebach ), the revitalization of the mountain lake shore and the sustainably designed city center.
politics
Municipal council
In Bad Säckingen, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection process . The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council in Bad Säckingen has 22 members after the last election (2014: 24). The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
| Parties and constituencies | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 27.20 | 6th | 38.5 | 9 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 11.85 | 3 | 27.0 | 6th | |
| FW | Free voters Bad Säckingen eV | 23.10 | 5 | 15.9 | 4th | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 25.94 | 6th | 15.9 | 4th | |
| LEFT | The left | 5.42 | 1 | 2.7 | 1 | |
| UBL | Independent Citizens List | 6.49 | 1 | - | - | |
| total | 100 | 22nd | 100 | 24 | ||
| voter turnout | 51.08% | 42.7% | ||||
mayor
Alexander Guhl (SPD) has been mayor since January 3, 2012. He was re-elected in November 2019.
coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "Under a red shield head in black a (leather) silver purse (sack)."
Town twinning
Bad Säckingen has been twinning cities with Sanary-sur-Mer in the south of France and Purkersdorf in Lower Austria since 1973 . In 1983 partnerships with the Japanese Nagai and Santeramo in Colle in Italy were also established. The partnership with the Swiss town of Näfels , which had existed since 1988, was transferred to the new unified municipality of Glarus Nord on January 1, 2011 as part of the Glarus community reform .
Culture and sights
"The trumpeter from Säckingen"
For a wider public, Säckingen became known through the first work Der Trompeter von Säkkingen by Joseph Victor von Scheffel , published in 1854 . After the factory had only sold slowly at the beginning, sales skyrocketed after 1870. At times it was one of the most widely read books in Germany, and in 1921 the 322nd edition appeared. Scheffel used a real event from the 17th century as inspiration for this “epic poem”, the love affair between the middle-class Franz Werner Kirchhofer (1633–1690) and the noble Maria Ursula von Schönau (1632–1691) (at Scheffel Margaretha ). However, while Scheffel's couple was not allowed to marry at first, the trumpeter then emigrated to Rome and the marriage was only made possible by his ennoblement by the Pope, the real couple defied the von Schönau family's resistance, married against their will and led then a respected life in Säckingen. She had five children and the man became a successful merchant, councilor and schoolmaster. He also directed the boys' choir of St. Fridolinsmünster and was undoubtedly musical, but he was not a “trumpeter”. The couple's grave slab is now in a niche on the outside of the cathedral choir.
Victor Ernst Nessler composed an opera of the same name based on Scheffel's book , which premiered in Leipzig in 1884. Rudolf Bunge wrote the libretto . From the opera, the aria Bewüt dich Gott, it would have been so beautiful is still known today.
Hermann Riedel created the song cycle: Songs by Jung Werner's and Margaretha's from Scheffel's trumpeter von Säkkingen .
The trumpeter von Säckingen was also made into a film in 1918 . The director was Franz Porten , the film was produced by Eiko-Film GmbH in Berlin. The shooting took place from May 28th to June 6th 1918 in Säckingen, almost 200 Säckingen people worked as extras. It was shown in Säckingen on December 21, 1918 in the hall of the Schützenlichtspiele. Today it is lost, only photographs with scenes from the scene still exist.
The work found widespread approval in the German cultural area and its cities at the time. The motif of the trumpeter von Säckingen found its way onto the hand-woven tablecloths of the 19th century in the distant former German-Latvian Libau .
Buildings
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- Brennet-Areal: Brennet AG produces colorfully woven clothing fabrics and has existed since the end of the 19th century. In the course of the textile crisis, the Bad Säckingen location was given up in the 1970s. In the meantime the factory buildings including a listed villa have been demolished. The industrial monument , an area with a size of 50,000 square meters, is now an industrial park.
- The late Gothic abbey building was built between 1565 and 1575 by order of the princely abbots. In 1806, when the monastery was dissolved, the Grand Ducal District Office moved there. From 1936–1972 the Säckingen district office was housed there. The road construction office has been located there since 1974.
- The "Hallwyler Hof", also known as the Scheffelhaus, was the building of the Teutonic Knights and 1600. Joseph Victor von Scheffel lived there from 1850 to 1851. Today the Hallwyler Hof is used as a guest house and the rooms are rented out to tourists and vacationers.
- The " Rococo House " is dated to 1762 and contains stucco and a portrait of the Virgin .
- Today, the oldest are still components draw well the city exists. There was no spring water on the now-defunct Rhine island. The monastery was responsible for the drinking water supply and after its dissolution the city was responsible. From the 16th century, water pipes with spring water led over the two bridges.
- Wooden bridge
- Fridolin Bridge
- Fridolin Minster
- Schönau Castle
- Theft
- Tea house
- Au cemetery
- Gallus Tower
- St. Gallus Chapel
- The "Kater Hiddigeigei" fountain was created in 1978 by Alfred Sachs. It contains a depiction of the epic character cat in Joseph Victor von Scheffel's Trumpeter von Säckingen .
- Villa Berberich , now used as a cultural center
- Gloria theater
Attractions
A mountain lake dammed on five hectares of water lies above the city center . In addition to a pedal boat rental, there is also a small restaurant that invites you to stop. Fishing is also possible on the mountain lake with the appropriate authorization. There is a free game reserve in the immediate vicinity of the lake. A barefoot path with a water treading basin begins directly opposite the lower entrance to the game reserve . In 2019, a modern climbing forest on the mountain lake ("Kletterwald Hochempor") opened.
In the park of Schönau Castle, open air events take place regularly in summer, such as music festivals, open air cinema screenings, country evenings and, from May to September, the popular promenade concerts with local and regional music associations on Sundays.
The Hochrhein Golf and Leisure World in Obersäckingen offers a large indoor playground, an adventure golf and mini golf course and a golf course for professional athletes. It is also home to the Wildlife Natural History Museum.
The Aqualon Therme in the spa center offers several thermal mineral pools as well as a large Japanese sauna village. In addition, various wellness treatments are offered and the offer is rounded off by a large fitness center. The thermal baths were awarded five wellness stars in 2019.
Bad Säckingen has been home to a trumpet museum since 1985 . This is located in the Hochrheinmuseum Schloss Schönau, which can be found in the castle park. The Hochrheinmuseum Schloss Schönau is home to a trumpet collection that is over 400 years old, an archaeological department with finds and exhibits from the Upper Rhine region, a small local museum and the "ScheffelRäume", which tells the story of the "Trumpeter von Säckingen" and its author Joseph Victor von Scheffel thematized.
Economy and Infrastructure
Energy generation
In Bad Säckingen, hydropower is used intensively . The Bad Säckingen cavern power plant is a pumped storage power plant that was built in a cavern with a storage basin in Egg ( Eggberg basin ) (inaugurated in 1967). The Säckingen Rhine power station is a few hundred meters east of the old town. Construction began in 1961 and commissioning took place in 1966. It is owned by German and Swiss companies ( EnBW AG , Energiedienst Holding AG , Axpo AG and AEW Energie AG ).
Court and bodies
Bad Säckingen has a local court , which the district court district Waldshut-Tiengen and Oberlandesgerichtsbezirk belongs Karlsruhe.
The city also has a children's and youth center (in the old prison).
Educational institutions
There are numerous educational institutions in Bad Säckingen:
- Elementary schools: Anton Leo School, Weihermatt school, primary school Obersäckingen, primary school Wallbach, Josef-Anton-Sickinger -Grundschule
- Rudolf Graber Special School
- Hans Thoma Community School
- Werner Kirchhofer Secondary School
- Scheffel High School
- Trade school
- Home economics school
- Commercial school Rudolf-Eberle-Schule
- GATEX (Joint Textile Training Center)
- Commercial vocational training center of the DHV e. V.
- Adult Education Center (VHS)
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504–1564) was successively the wife of the three important reformers Ökolampad , Capito and Bucer
- Johann Jakob Beurer (1550–1605), professor and dean at the University of Freiburg
- Jakob Keller (1568–1631), theologian and writer
- Karl Agricola (1779–1852), painter and engraver
- Fridolin Spenner (1798–1841), professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden in Freiburg
- Hermann Leo (1839–1903), priest and author
- Otto Bally (1839–1908), manufacturer, councilor and local researcher
- Ludwig Vollmar (1842–1884), genre painter
- Emil Gersbach (1885–1963), local history researcher
- Rudolf Graber (1899–1958), Swiss writer
- Josef Wasmer (1902–1934), politician ( NSDAP ), member of the Landtag and Reichstag
- Oskar Hüssy (1903–1964), politician (NSDAP), 1938–1945 Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe
- Hansjörg Oeschger (1908–1998), forester and activist in the Catholic youth movement during the Nazi era
- Fridolin Jehle (1908–1976), historian and local researcher, mayor
- Elisabeth Schwander (1917–2001), founder of the German village helpers' organization
- Egon Gersbach (1921–2020), prehistoric archaeologist and long-time excavator of the Heuneburg
- Norbert Nothhelfer (* 1937), district administrator and politician (CDU)
- Meinhard Ade (* 1944), administrative lawyer
- Christian Peschke (1946–2017), sculptor and painter
- Konrad Hilpert (* 1947), Roman Catholic theologian
- Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt (* 1956), professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- Thomas Körner (* 1960), comic artist
- Nana Krüger (* 1962), actress
- Salvatore Caronna (* 1964), former member of the European Parliament . D.
- Jorge García del Valle Méndez (* 1966), composer
- Axel Neumann (* 1966), actor
- Christian Gutfleisch (* 1968), jazz musician
- Baki Davrak (born 1971), actor
- Matthias Reményi (* 1971), fundamental theologian
- Sabine Spitz (* 1971), professional cyclist
- Thorsten Frei (* 1973), deputy. Chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag , former Lord Mayor. D. of Donaueschingen
- Matthias Huber (* 1977), Ju-Jutsu World Champion and World Games winner
- Thomas Ays (* 1977), freelance author
- Stefanie Böhler (* 1981), cross-country skier
- Menzel Mutzke (* 1984), jazz musician
- Miriam Davoudvandi , (* 1992), DJane, music journalist
- Marc Pelosi (* 1994), American football player
- Flavio Cefola (* 1991), music psychologist, artist development, 2nd board member BeatUnit eV
Other personalities of Säckingen
- Marianna Franziska von Hornstein (1723–1809), last princess of the Säckingen Abbey
- Raphael von Weinzierl (1782 - 1864), administrative officer
- Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826–1886), writer and poet, author of the trumpeter von Säckingen
- Ursula von Mangoldt (1904–1987), writer, translator and publisher.
- Rudolf Eberle (1926–1984), economist and politician (CDU), former Minister of Economics of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Wolfgang Burger (* 1952), crime writer
- Hidir Gürakar (* 1953), social advisor , translator and politician (SPD), former member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Hennadiy Vorobyov , sports educator and canoeist, has lived in Obersäckingen since 2011
literature
- Raimund Lang : The Trumpeter's Resonance. The bushel town of Säckingen. In: Studenten-Kurier 3/2013, pp. 6–13.
- Joseph Viktor von Scheffel : The trumpeter from Säckingen: a song from the Upper Rhine. Bookstore Schwarz auf Weiss / BoD, Bad Säckingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8370-0183-9 .
Web links
- Official website of the city of Bad Säckingen
- City history 2
- Adelheid Enderle-Jehle: Säckingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Trumpet Museum Bad Säckingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ Bad Säckingen: Growth: The Fridolininsel near Bad Säckingen becomes German - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 26, 2014 .
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , pp. 954-959.
- ↑ Otto Seeck: History of the Fall of the Ancient World Chapter: Julian in Gallien , fourth volume, Primus Verlag, unchanged reprographic reprint 2000 of the 4th edition, Stuttgart 1921, p. 294 f. ISBN 3-89678-161-8 . Confirmed for 361 AD and named “Stabsoffizier Libino” in: Robert Browing: Julian , Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1977, p. 165. and Josef Bidez: Julian , Rowohlt, Hamburg 1956, p. 126.
- ↑ Julius Cramer: The history of the Alemanni as a Gau story . Scientia, 1971, ISBN 978-3-511-04057-4 .
- ^ Emil Jegge: The history of the Fricktal until 1803. P. 139 ff.
- ↑ Christa Seewald: The urnfield settlement of the former Rhine island of Säckingen and its surroundings. Reprint Badische Fundberichte , Volume 21, 1985, p. 93.
- ^ 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. 501 f .
- ^ 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. 524 .
- ↑ www.trompeter-von-saeckingen.de Website about the trumpeter von Säckingen.
- ^ Bad Säckingen: Brennet area: listed villa falls victim to demolition excavator - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Michael Gottstein: 25 Years of the Trumpet Museum: Two gifts close the gaps . In: Badische Zeitung . October 4, 2010 ( online [accessed September 1, 2019] - requires registration; same content on the museum's journal page (accessed March 10, 2014)).
- ^ Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG: The Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen
- ↑ The old Hindenburg School is now called the Anton Leo School. Online at Badische Zeitung ; accessed on March 6, 2014.
- ↑ Rowing and canoeing: Hennadiy Vorobyov fishes two world championship titles from the Tiber , Badische Zeitung, September 29, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2012
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