Bad Karlshafen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ' N , 9 ° 27' E |
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| State : | Hesse | |
| Administrative region : | kassel | |
| County : | kassel | |
| Height : | 101 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 14.85 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3644 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 245 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 34385 | |
| Area code : | 05672 | |
| License plate : | KS, HOG, WOH | |
| Community key : | 06 6 33 002 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BKA | |
| City structure: | 2 districts | |
City administration address : |
Hafenplatz 8 34385 Bad Karlshafen |
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| Mayor : | Marcus Dittrich ( independent ) | |
| Location of the city of Bad Karlshafen in the Kassel district | ||
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Bad Karlshafen ( Low German : Korlshoawen ) is a spa town in the Kassel district and the northernmost municipality in Hesse .
3778 inhabitants live in the urban area, which extends over an area of 14.85 km² , of which 2300 are in the Bad Karlshafen district and 1600 in the Helmarshausen district (climatic health resort, independent municipality until 1972).
Karlshafen has been called Bad Karlshafen since 1977 and is also advertised as a saltwater spa and baroque town . The city is a state-approved spa .
The historic Weserhafen was cut off from the Weser in the 1920s. In 2018 it was tied back to the Weser; thanks to a lock, the water level in the port is independent of that in the Weser.
geography
location
The North Hessian Bad Karlshafen lies between the Solling in the north and the Reinhardswald in the south at the Hessian - Lower Saxony - North Rhine-Westphalian triangle , which is located directly northwest of the city of Hanover cliffs . The city spreads directly on the 95.6 m above sea level. NN located confluence of the Diemel coming from the south into the Weser flowing from the east . The Hessian cliffs are located southwest of the confluence .
Districts
Districts of Bad Karlshafen are the core town of the same name and the older, until 1972 independent town of Helmarshausen, 1.3 km (as the crow flies ) to the south . Between the two parts of the city, about 3.2 km are to be covered on federal road 83 along a Diemel loop; The Karlshafen colony of Nollendorf / Diemelhöhe is about halfway along this street .
Neighboring communities
Bad Karlshafen borders in the north on the community-free area Solling , in the northeast on the spots Bodenfelde (both in the district Northeim in Lower Saxony ), in the east on the community-free area Gutsviertel Reinhardswald , in the south on the city of Trendelburg (both in the district Kassel) and in the west to the city of Beverungen ( Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia).
history
Today's district of Bad Karlshafen was founded in 1699 as Sieburg (Syburg) by Landgrave Karl as an exile town of Hesse-Kassel for the settlement of Huguenots , Protestant religious refugees from France. The name was derived from the 274 m high Sieburg elevation in the northern Reinhardswald . Landgrave Karl ordered the construction of a new factory and trading town, and his engineer and master builder Friedrich Conradi began planning. In connection with the ambitious plans to dig the Landgraf-Carl Canal , the Landgrave wanted to bypass the customs duties ( stacking rights ) of Hannoversch Münden and build a new waterway to the royal seat of Kassel . However, these plans could only be partially implemented, as could the further expansion plans for the city of Karlshafen. In 1704 the disabled house was built. Until 1918 it served as lifelong accommodation and care for disabled Hessian soldiers and their families. In 1717 the site by the court architect was Paul du Ry in honor of Carl Landgraf of Hesse in Carlshaven renamed. The first inhabitants of the new baroque city were Huguenots and Waldensians . Opposite the old town on the other side of the Weser lies the garden city , which was built later to create more living space. After the city founder died in 1730, the construction of the canal, which had only been completed 17 km, was stopped.
Sole springs were discovered in Carlshafen in 1730 by the Huguenot pharmacist Jacques Galland . The trade in salt began. In 1763 a salt works, consisting of a pumping station and three graduation towers , was built.
In the Kingdom of Westphalia, Carlshafen was the seat of the canton of Karlshafen , in Kurhessen from 1814 to 1821 the office of Carlshafen , from 1821 the justice office in Karlshafen and after the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia (from 1867) the seat of a district court .
After the establishment of the Prussian-Hessian Customs Association , salt production was stopped to protect the North German brine deposits. In 1838 the first bath house was built in the place, in which the brine was used for the treatment of spa guests. In 1903 a salt works was built on the right bank of the Weser; this was destroyed during the Second World War. In 1935, Carlshafen was renamed Karlshafen . In 1955 it was recognized as a saltwater spa .
On 16./17. In July 1965 the Heinrich flood wreaked havoc in the area of the baroque old town. On September 25, 1966, the Carlsbahn passenger train service ( Kassel – Warburg line ; Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn) was discontinued, and on September 27, 1986, freight traffic as well.
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the city was powerful state law Helmarshausen , the historically much older place on 1 August 1972, the city Karlshafen to the new city Karlshafen together .
In 1973 a new spa center was opened. On May 27, 1977, the city of Karlshafen was awarded the title Bad Karlshafen . In 1986 a new graduation tower was built. In 2004, a new brine spring was developed at a depth of 1150 meters and in December 2004 the Kristalltherme Weserbergland, now the Weser-Therme, opened.
In 2017, construction work began to renovate and redesign the historic harbor basin in front of the town hall. These were completed in 2019. The reopening and reconnection to the Weser could be celebrated on May 11th.
Population development
| year | Residents | together with Helmarshausen |
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| 1773 | 713 | 1412 |
| 1819 | 1203 | 2254 |
| 1849 | 1781 | 3127 |
| 1885 | 1600 | 2901 |
| 1895 | 1724 | 3038 |
| 1910 | 1908 | 3220 |
| 1919 | 1746 | 3003 |
| 1925 | 1869 | 3216 |
| 1933 | 2124 | 3495 |
| 1939 | 2224 | 3565 |
| 1946 | 3687 | 5606 |
| 1958 | 3135 | 4829 |
| 06/06/1961 | 3118 | 4763 |
| 05/27/1970 | 2910 | 4674 |
| December 31, 2002 | 4278 | |
| December 31, 2006 | 4047 | |
| December 31, 2008 | 3926 | |
| December 31, 2009 | 3830 | |
| December 31, 2010 | 3794 | |
| December 31, 2012 | 3561 | |
| December 31, 2013 | 3534 | |
| December 31, 2015 | 3718 | |
| December 31, 2017 | 3641 |
politics
mayor
In the direct mayoral election on April 10, 2005, the CDU candidate and later non-party Ulrich Otto was elected with 62.94 percent and thus prevailed over the competitor Rolf Schliessmann (SPD). In the mayoral election in 2011, Otto, who was not part of the party, prevailed with 78.32 percent against the only challenger Rainer Rettinger (SPD) with 21.68 percent.
In the mayoral election in May 2017, Marcus Dittrich (supported by the FWG and CDU) won with a majority against Petra Werner (supported by the SPD). The turnout was 66.7 percent. There were several objections to the election. The city parliament decided to repeat the election in the Helmarshausen district.
City Council
The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:
| Parties and constituencies |
% 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
% 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
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| FWG | Free community of voters Bad Karlshafen-Helmarshausen | 38.2 | 6th | 39.2 | 8th | 29.0 | 7th | 22.2 | 5 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 26.5 | 5 | 33.5 | 6th | 42.4 | 10 | 50.0 | 12 | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 21.4 | 4th | 27.3 | 5 | 28.5 | 6th | 27.7 | 6th | |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 14.0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| total | 100.0 | 17th | 100.0 | 19th | 100.0 | 23 | 100.0 | 23 | ||
| Voter turnout in% | 51.9 | 61.7 | 53.0 | 57.3 | ||||||
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on March 22, 1974 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.
Blazon : "The shield, divided by a silver crenellated wreath of blue and green, shows the growing Hessian lion above, and a rising, golden sun below."
Town twinning
Bad Karlshafen maintains partnership relationships with
- 's-Gravenzande in the Netherlands since 1961 and
- Bad Suderode in Saxony-Anhalt since 1990.
Economy and Infrastructure
Healthcare
- Carolinum - Dr. Ebel Specialist Clinic for Orthopedics, Neurology, Geriatrics and Rehabilitation
- Several specialists from various disciplines work on site.
traffic
Streets
Bundesstrasse 80 begins in Bad Karlshafen and branches off from the B 83 in the city center ( bypass under construction ; 2017–2021) and leads mainly eastwards to Halle (Saale) . On the B 80 and the B 496 that branches off from it , you can go through Hann. Münden to the Hann. Junction 50 kilometers away by road . Münden / Lutterberg take the federal motorway 7 in the south-southeast. The Warburg junction of the A 44 in the south-west, 41.5 kilometers away by road, can be reached on federal highways 83, 241 and 252 .
From there is on the A44 connection to the nearby junction Büren lying Paderborn-Lippstadt in the West. On the B 83, from Grebenstein on the Kreisstraße 50 and finally on the B 7 , you can drive to Kassel-Calden Airport in the south. In the city center, the K 77 branches off from the B 80, which leads northwest on the Weser Bridge (Brüderstraße) to Bad Karlshafen station on the other side of the Weser ; the bridge has been replaced by a new building since 2017, which should be completed by summer 2019.
Bicycle traffic
The Hessian long-distance cycle path R1 (Fulda cycle path ) and the Hessian long-distance cycle path from Hirschhorn end in Bad Karlshafen. There is also the Weserradweg (R99) from Hann. Münden to Cuxhaven , the Diemel cycle path from Usseln to Bad Karlshafen and the D-Route 9 (Weser-Romantic Road).
railroad
The 27.92 km long section of the Carlsbahn from Grebenstein station via Hümme to Bad Karlshafen, which opened on March 30, 1848, was the first railway in Kurhessen and ran from Bad Karlshafen station on the left bank (left bank of the Weser) via Hümme to Kassel . Passenger traffic to Hümme was discontinued in 1966, as was goods traffic between Trendelburg and Bad Karlshafen. This line to Hümme was finally closed in 1986.
Until the Carlsbahn was shut down, the city had two train stations, after which only the Bad Karlshafen station on the right bank remained , today Bad Karlshafen . The Sollingbahn on the Ottbergen - Bodenfelde - Northeim route is served by the NordWestBahn every hour with regional trains. The trains have been tied through to Paderborn since December 2015 . The line had no track connection to the (former) Carlsbahn. As part of the single-track dismantling of the Solling Railway in the 1990s, the station became an unoccupied stop .
The city belongs to the North Hessian Transport Association . In this network area, the station is isolated between the two stations in Lower Saxony, Bodenfelde and Lauenförde - Beverungen , so that the VSN tariff is used on this section of the route . In the direction of NRW , the “Hochstift tariff” ( local transport association Paderborn-Höxter ) and the NRW tariff also apply .
Ship operation
From April to October scheduled trips to Höxter and Oedelsheim are offered with Weser ships . The providers are Flotte Weser and Weserschiff-Linie 2000 .
A lock enables boats and yachts to access the historic port.
Culture and sights
Large parts of the city layout in the Weser Baroque style with symmetrically laid out streets have been impressively preserved. The main building, located directly on the historic harbor basin, is the former packing and warehouse (today town hall) with a mighty hipped roof and central ridge turret; it was built from 1715 to 1718 and served the landgrave as representative accommodation during visits. This is where the Landgraf-Carl Canal , which was originally planned as far as Marburg , but only built until shortly before Hümme , began , of which some relics can still be found.
The oldest house in the city, built in 1700, is located on Hafenplatz and is now used as a hotel-restaurant.
Alois Holtmeyer built the railway workers' rest home in 1905 .
To the west of Bad Karlshafen, on one of the Hessian cliffs, stands the Huguenot Tower (about 165 to 170 m above sea level ), which is used as a hiking destination and from which one has a good view of the city.
To the east of Karlshafen, bounded on three of four sides by the Diemel and Weser valleys, is the Sieburg plateau, an early historical circular rampart , which, with its dimensions, represents an unprecedented natural and artificial rampart in northern Hesse. In the southern part, which is bordered neither by the Diemel nor the Weser, the plateau has a connection to the surrounding land. There are two section ramparts and ditches at this point. The inner wall runs roughly in a west-east line from one steep slope to the other and has a length of 550 m; at the east end it is apparently only made of stones and has a four-meter-wide gap that could have served as a gate. The perimeter is a space that is more than a square kilometer. The outer wall is only 250 m long compared to the inner one.
The ruins of the Krukenburg are located on the Waltersberg ( 184.2 m ) in the Helmarshausen district to the south of the city center . Construction of the castle began between 1215 and 1220; after 1617 it gradually fell into disrepair.
Not far down the Weser and thus west of the city, in the urban area of Beverungen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), on the right bank of the river, the Hanoverian cliffs rise from wooded slopes, a group of seven up to 75 m high red sandstone pillars. The Weser Skywalk viewing platform is located on one of them .
From Karlshafen the Ecopfad Archäologie Sieburg above the Diemel leads through the northernmost part of the Reinhardswald to the Sieburg ramparts. In the absence of finds, it has not yet been possible to determine the age of the visible walls.
Museums (Bad Karlshafen district)
The German Huguenot Museum Bad Karlshafen, founded in 1989, is located in a former cigar factory in the old town and deals with the history of the Huguenots in France and Germany. The first inhabitants of Bad Karlshafen were Huguenots who had been expelled from France because of their Protestant beliefs. The museum was expanded in 2006 and is also a genealogical research center and a city archive and offers an exhibition area of 500 m².
Leisure and cure
Bad Karlshafen is a popular point of contact for water hikers on the Weser and offers many opportunities for hiking. There is a campsite and a mini golf course, both directly on the Weser .
As a spa town, Bad Karlshafen offers a modern spa center and a graduation tower built in 1986 .
Weser thermal baths
A new thermal bath was built in the city on the promenade for around 20 million euros and opened on December 18, 2004. The thermal brine healing water here has a salt content of 23 percent and is extracted from a depth of 1150 m. The bath was initially called the Kristalltherme Weserbergland and belonged to the Kristallbad group. After an ongoing legal dispute in which the operator under the management of Heinz Steinhart withheld contractually agreed lease payments, the city of Bad Karlshafen was burdened with around 12.2 million euros until 2009. After a settlement in August 2009 and the signing of a transfer agreement, the city of Bad Karlshafen took over the further operation as Weser-Therme itself from October 1, 2009 with the subsidiary Bäderbetriebe Weserbergland GmbH .
Cultural monuments
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Carl Schaumburg, mayor, honorary citizen from June 23, 1833
- Ferdinand Calckhof, judicial officer, honorary citizen from November 12, 1860
- Wilhelm Koch, intern from Kassel, honorary citizen from June 28, 1662
- Johann Friedrich Kuhlenkamp from Bremen, honorary citizen from January 19, 1882
- Josef Davin from Bremen, honorary citizen from April 29, 1913
- Reinhold Liebetrau, Kapellmeister, honorary citizen from July 12, 1957
- Conrad Bönning, honorary citizen from November 14, 1970
- Emma Staubesand, honorary citizen from October 7, 1982
sons and daughters of the town
- Ferdinand von Schutzbar (1813–1891), lawyer, manor owner and parliamentarian
- Hermann Suchier (1848–1914), Romanist
- Georg Zülch (1870–1942), lawyer and politician ( DNVP)
- Günter Frankenberg (* 1945), lawyer
- Wilhelm Hugues (1905–1971), sculptor and painter
- Harry Oberländer (* 1950), poet
- Robert Bohn (* 1952), historian
- Mirja Regensburg (* 1975), actress and comedian
- Marcus Koch (* 1979), musician, music producer and composer
- Andreas Thiele (* 1980), actor
- Sebastian Schachten (* 1984), soccer player
Other personalities
- Erich Wenneker (* 1960), pastor and head of the Huguenot library at the German Huguenot Center
- Herbert Mager (1888–1979), painter
- Daniel Fawcett Tiemann (1805-1899). The son of the painter and later industrialist Johann Anton Tiemann (born November 11, 1778 in Carlshafen) was mayor of New York from 1858 to 1860.
Others
The harbor basin and its surroundings were used as the location and backdrop for parts of the film Winter That Was a Summer in 1976 .
literature
- Robert Bohn: Karlshafen, economic and social history of the Hessian planned town from the baroque period. Karlshafen 2000, ISBN 3-934800-00-9 .
- Andreas Jakob: The baroque city complex of Karlshafen and its European roots. A contribution to the foundation of the "Huguenot City" 300 years ago by Landgrave Carl von Hessen-Kassel. Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association, vol. 51. Darmstadt / Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-931849-05-8 , pp. 3–41.
- Klaus Kunze : Local family register Karlshafen. Uslar 2007, ISBN 3-933334-18-7 .
- Rüdiger Recknagel: Karlshafen. Fragment of an urban portal system around 1700. Hessian research on historical regional and folklore, vol. 2, 2nd edition. Kassel 1985.
- Horst Wagner: Karlshafen in the Second World War. Documents, pictures and reports from contemporary witnesses. Karlshafen 1999, ISBN 3-9801072-9-9 .
- Magda Thierling: Forgotten history, Jewish life in Helmarshausen and Karlshafen. Verlag Antiquariat Schäfer, Bad Karlshafen 2011, ISBN 978-3-934800-15-1 .
- Rosemarie Wilcken: A city for Huguenots . In: Monuments , Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 60–62.
Web links
- 360 ° aerial panorama of Bad Karlshafen
- Profile and history ( memento of January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Internet presence of the city of Bad Karlshafen.
- The history of Bad Karlshafen. In: www.kruppas.com. Private website
- Bad Karlshafen, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Link catalog on Bad Karlshafen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ 78th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing fountains in Hesse on November 15, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 7 , 2013, ISSN 0724-7885 , p. 309 .
- ↑ FAZ.net: The time of the swans is over
- ↑ a b Markus Löschner: After almost 90 years: Bad Karlshafen has a port again and celebrates the gateway to the Weser. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). Verlag Dierichs , May 11, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Gerd Henke: Flooding in Bad Karlshafen ended: blue hour at the water-filled new harbor basin. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). Verlag Dierichs , November 14, 2018, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 13 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 399 .
- ↑ Bad Karlshafen puts the port back into operation after 90 years , accessed on May 17, 2019.
- ↑ Victory with one more voice: Dittrich is the new mayor of Bad Karlshafen. May 21, 2017, accessed January 3, 2019 .
- ^ Mayor runoff election in Bad Karlshafen: Objection from Petra Werner. June 14, 2017, accessed January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ http://hessenschau.de/politik/buergermeisterwahl-wird-wegen-witz-wiederholt,bad-karlshafen-neuwahl-100.html
- ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
- ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
- ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
- ↑ K 77 - New UF replacement building for the Weser Bridge in Bad Karlshafen , accessed on May 30, 2019, on mobil.hessen.de
- ↑ Irene Kappel: The Sieburg near Karlshafen . In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany - City and District of Kassel . tape 7 , 1986, pp. 108 .
- ↑ Flyer: Ecopfad Archäologie Sieburg of the district of Kassel from October 2008
- ^ Genealogical research center on the website of the German Huguenot Society. V., accessed on July 25, 2013.
- ↑ Bad finally throws off money. Retrieved August 6, 2013 .
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