Bad Bertrich

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 7 ° 2 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Elms
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.71 km 2
Residents:	1046 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56864
Area code :	02674
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 501
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 56766 Ulmen
Website :	www.bad-bertrich.de
Local Mayor :	Christian Arnold
Location of the local community Bad Bertrich in the district of Cochem-Zell

Bad Bertrich from the southwest

Bad Bertrich around 1900

Bad Bertrich is a state spa and health resort in the Eifel and belongs to the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The local community belongs to the Ulmen community .

geography

Bad Bertrich is located in the Üßbachtal in the southern Eifel, near the Moselle .

The municipality of Bad Bertrich consists of the districts Bad Bertrich with the residential areas Marienhöhe and Sonnenhof and Kennfus with the residential area Lucienhof. It borders (clockwise) on the local communities Lutzerath , Kliding , Beuren , Bengel and Hontheim .

From the late 1960s, RWE planned the large Bremm pumped storage plant . The dam for its six-kilometer-long Obersee would have been built not far from Bad Bertrich in the valley of the Erdenbach, which is located immediately to the north and flows into the Üßbach.

history

Magnificent bathing buildings were built in Bertriacum under the Roman emperors Valentinian II and Gratian . The oldest documentary mention dates from 1097; it is a deed of ownership by Archbishop Egilbert of Trier . In 1476 the place became an electoral state bath. Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony , the last elector of Trier, had the electoral palace built here from 1785 to 1787 and used it as a summer and hunting residence. From 1794 Bad Bertrich was under French rule. In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and became the Prussian state spa.

At the time of National Socialism , the spa facilities in Bad Bertrich were redesigned according to the planning and construction supervision of the architect Otto Hodler .

Bad Bertrich has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946. On January 1, 1975, the previously independent community of Kennfus was incorporated into Bad Bertrich.

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bad Bertrich consists of sixteen council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Parkhotel Bad Bertrich

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGR	total
2019	-	-	16	16 seats
2014	-	-	16	16 seats
2009	-	-	12	12 seats
2004	3	5	8th	16 seats

After the election in 2019 and 2014, the 16 seats were divided between a total of four groups of voters .

Culture and sights

In June / July 2007 the newly founded Eifel Culture Days Festival took place in Bad Bertrich and in the Himmerod Monastery . The event series with over 90 artists is led by Rainer Laupichler .

Buildings and facilities

• Evangelical Philipp Melanchthon Church
• Catholic Church of St. Peter
• Electoral palace with adjoining cavalier house, served the Trier Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus as a summer residence
• Bismarck Tower , a 1,910 of completed 14 m high observation tower , the 500 m east of the village on the Hohelay stands
• Hohenzollern Tower, a small cast iron observation pavilion on the northeastern Krahlberg
• Vulkaneifel - thermal baths
• Römerkessel , the first landscape therapy park in Europe opened in 2012

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Bad Bertrich
• List of natural monuments in Bad Bertrich
• List of stumbling blocks in Bad Bertrich

Economy and Infrastructure

Heilquelle mountain spring

The mountain spring is an extremely stable healing spring in terms of pouring and composition of the ingredients. It is a Glauber's salt thermal bath (sodium sulfate hydrogen carbonate thermal bath).

Spa

This healing spring is the basis for the development of the place into a health resort. The health tourism offer in Bad Bertrich is an important economic factor in the region, which is also marketed under the name "Gesundland Vulkaneifel".

Personalities

Born in Bad Bertrich

• Ottmar Dillenburg (* 1961), Catholic priest, General Praeses of the International Kolping Society

Associated with Bad Bertrich

• Josef Neunzig (1904–1965), Catholic priest persecuted under National Socialism
• Günter Eichberg (1946–2018), management consultant and football official, president of FC Schalke 04 1989–1993, 2004–2009 mayor of Bad Bertrich.

Others

Sign at the entrance to Bad Bertrich

At the 2006 World Cup , Bad Bertrich served as a training camp for the Swiss national team . The Swiss team stayed in the 5-star hotel "Häcker's Kurhotel Fürstenhof". This was made possible by the mayor of the time, Günter Eichberg.

literature

• Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: Bad Bertrich, Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 184; 1976 (1981 ² ).

Web links

Commons : Bad Bertrich  - Collection of Images

• Website of the Bad Bertrich community
• Literature about Bad Bertrich in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 23 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books .
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Bismarck Tower Bad Bertrich on bismarcktuerme.de
7. ↑ Landscape Therapy Park Römerkessel ( memento from April 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Bad Bertrich website
8. ↑ Starting shot for the healthy land . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , January 14, 2014. Accessed May 30, 2015.
9. ↑ Bad Bertrich - thermal baths between the Moselle and Eifel ( memento from May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Rhineland-Palatinate Tourism website. Retrieved May 30, 2015.