List of well-known spa guests in Bad Kissingen

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First "Kaiserkur" in Bad Kissingen (1864) (promenade in the spa garden in front of the arcade building from the left: King Ludwig II of Bavaria , Tsarina Maria Alexandrowa of Russia , her husband Tsar Alexander II of Russia , Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) of Austria Hungary and Duke Max in Bavaria )
Second "Kaiserkur" in Bad Kissingen (1868) (King Ludwig II of Bavaria (with a stick) and (in front of him with hat in hand) Tsar Alexander II of Russia greet each other in front of the arcade building )

The medicinal springs of the Bavarian state bath Bad Kissingen , which was only made a bath by King Ludwig II on April 24, 1883 , have been known since 823. With Dietrich von Thüngen (1476–1540), Canon in Würzburg, the first spa guest was documented in 1520. As early as 1565, Thomas Erastus (1524–1583), the personal physician of Count von Henneberg from Switzerland, praised the healing powers of the Kissinger Sauerbrunnen (today: Maxbrunnen ) for regular spa visits.

In the course of the following five centuries the spa town was visited by numerous prominent guests from all over the world. Especially in the second half of the 19th century, Bad Kissingen achieved its fame as a “ world bath ”, when the “rich and beautiful” of that time met there and it was part of the social status of the nobility and the affluent bourgeoisie , now and then or even to regularly spend his summer in Bad Kissingen. They not only wanted to do something for their health here, but above all to see others and be seen for themselves. Sun offered Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , known writer and chronicler of his time, on 24 July 1840 at Kissinger Fountain of Württemberg Queen Pauline , he would like to issue the Kissinger Kurliste his own comments: want Who was here, it would like to, and who has not been here, no less.

Famous spa guests of the city of Bad Kissingen (with year)

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  • They are listed chronologically according to the year of the first visit or after the first mention.

1501 to 1700

August of Saxony
  • 1520: Dietrich von Thüngen (1476–1540), canon of the Würzburg cathedral monastery and later provost of the Neumünster monastery, first documented spa guest in Bad Kissingen: “1520 Sabatho post marci. Eodem asked Mr. Dietrich von Tungen licentiam ad balneum gein Kissingen. Is experienced according to the form and how it comes from. "
  • 1573: Georg Ernst Graf von Henneberg (1511–1583), the last lord of the county of Henneberg, came in 1575, 1576, 1577 and 1581. He was accompanied by a staff of 30 such as B. two maidens, two chambermaids, two pages, a marshal , four junkers , three chamber boys, a personal physician, a court preacher, a secretary, a copyist , two barbers , a tailor, a cook, a kitchen boy, a waiter, a groom, a delivery boy and two run boys
  • 1573: Thomas Erastus (1524–1583), professor in Heidelberg and personal physician to Count von Henneberg, came at least in 1573 and 1576.
  • undated: August of Saxony (1526–1586), Elector of Saxony
  • 1589: Johannes Wittich (1537–1596), personal physician to the Counts of Schwarzburg and city physician in Arnstadt, was in Kissingen in or before 1589. That year he published his book Aphoristic Extract and Short Report, of the mineral Sauerbrun in Kissingen, in the Fürstenthumb Francken, about his strength and effectiveness . In it, he dealt with all the essential questions that might arise in connection with a visit to a spa in Kissingen.
  • undated: Albrecht VII. Count von Schwarzburg (1537–1605), progenitor of the princely Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt line
  • 1593: Lupold von Wedel (1544–1612 / 1615), a German travel writer, traveled to Franconia in 1593 and must have stayed in Kissingen during this time. In any case, his description of the bathing resort comes from the year 1608: "... this water is called the Saurbrunnen " today Maxbrunnen ", is fetched and drunk by many princes ..." - "... as well as princes, counts, also many middle and lower class Summer lie here, bathe and drink ... "
  • 1595: Gottfried Steegh (1550–1609), Dutch physician and personal physician to Prince Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , was in or before 1595 at the spa. That year he published his book Descriptio fontis medicati Kissingensis .
  • 1603: According to the mayor's bill from 1603/04, the " Jew Gumpen wife from Oberthulba" was the first Jewish spa guest in Kissingen.
  • 1606: Duke Hans Adolf von Coburg came to Kissingen accompanied by seven "mounted men".
  • 1645: Johann Lorenz Bausch (1605–1665), city physician and co-founder of the “ Leopoldina ” in Schweinfurt, accompanies Sylvanus Späth , the abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach, to a drinking and spa treatment in Kissingen.
Luise of Hessen-Darmstadt

1701 to 1800

  • 1701: Burkard Bausch (1656 – around 1721/23), monk and chronicler of the Franconian Benedictine monastery Münsterschwarzach, came to Kissingen six times between 1701 and 1717 for bathing and drinking cures. In 1713 you paid 1 imperial per week for accommodation (= 18 Franconian chunks), 6 chunks per day for food (= almost 2 imperial per week) and 2 chunks for a bathroom.
  • 1744: Valentin Rathgeber (1682–1750), theologian, composer, organist and choir director of the Baroque; he was one of the most popular and respected composers in southern Germany.
  • 1797: Luise von Hessen-Darmstadt (1757–1830), Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar, the mother of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich “is in Kissingen” , as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote to Johann Heinrich Meyer on July 14, 1797 from Weimar .

1811 to 1820

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1836)
Robert von Mohl
Jenny Lind
Alexandra of Bavaria
Wilhelm
Prince of Prussia
  • 1820: Adam Elias von Siebold (1775–1828), German gynecologist and university professor, was first registered as a spa guest in Kissingen in 1820, and more times in 1822 and 1827. Written a book in 1828: detailed descriptions of the healing springs in Kissingen and their effects, especially on female diseases .
  • 1820: Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868), later King of Bavaria, was already in Kissingen as Crown Prince in August 1820. At that time he wrote to the Bavarian Finance Minister Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld that with such effective baths it was “state economic” to look after the necessary buildings with money invested in interest. After his accession to the throne (1825), he had the conversation hall built with an adjoining arcade (completed in 1838). In 1833 he followed his wife Therese von Bayern on a private visit to Kissingen. He was also a guest here in 1839 and 1840. In 1847 he came with daughter Alexandra . But also in other years he came to the spa town on business as sovereign, for example in 1838 for the inauguration of the arcade building.

1821 to 1830

  • 1825: Gottfried Eisenmann (1795–1867), politician and medical author, came to the spa several times since 1825 and wrote a. a. The healing springs of the Kissinger Saalthal (Erlangen 1837).

1831 to 1840

  • 1833: Therese von Bayern (1792–1854), Queen of Bavaria, came to Kissingen on June 20 as Queen of Bavaria, accompanied by her children Princess Mathilde and Prince Luitpold to Bad Kissingen for the first time. Her husband, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, succeeded her on July 18th. In 1834 she came again and from June 10th stayed in the house of the Bolzano brothers , the royal spa hotel . There she later visited her brother, Major Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg.
  • 1834: Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg stayed in Bad Kissingen from June 19 to July 16, where he met his sister, Queen Therese of Bavaria. He had previously accompanied his nephew Otto , the son of his sister Therese, to Greece at the head of a Bavarian military contingent , where he was appointed governor of Nauplia . He should have reported to his sister in Bad Kissingen after his return.
  • 1834: August Karl Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (1771–1834), Saxon-Weimar major general, died on September 15th during his stay at the spa.
  • 1836: Werner von Haxthausen , civil servant, philologist and landowner, discovered Salzburg Castle and Gut Bad Neuhaus during his stay , which he acquired as a new family residence .
  • 1837: Wilhelm II of Hesse (1777–1847), Elector of Hesse, came incognito as Count von Steinau with his retinue from Hanau.
  • 1837: Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Of Prussia (1795–1861), from 1840 King of Prussia, visited the spa town as Crown Prince under the pseudonym Count Zollern with his wife and 40 people in the entourage from Berlin.
  • 1837: Leopold von Baden (1790–1852), the Grand Duke of Baden came from Karlsruhe as Count von Eberstein with his family.
  • 1837: Karl von Bayern (1795–1875), Prince of Bavaria and Field Marshal General, came to the spa town from Munich as Count von Dachau .
  • 1837: Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847), royal builder, came with his family from Munich to spend the summer in Bad Kissingen, where the arcade was being built according to his plans.
  • 1837: Leo von Klenze (1784–1864), also a well-known architect and builder a. a. of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, accompanied Friedrich von Gärtner.
  • 1837: Alexander Iwanowitsch Turgenew (1784–1845), Russian diplomat, historian and friend of the Russian national poet Pushkin , came to the Weltbad Kissingen for summer vacation in 1837. He came again in 1839.
  • 1837: Sulpiz Boisserée (1783–1854), an important art collector and architectural historian, came from Cologne with his wife; The Bavarian King Ludwig I later bought his art collection for the Alte Pinakothek.
  • 1837: Jenny Rabe von Pappenheim (1811–1890), illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte and thus Napoleon's niece , became engaged to 23-year-old Werner von Gustedt during her stay in Kissingen , whom she married in 1838 in her hometown of Weimar. An anecdote reports that on his arrival in Kissingen, her fiancé Werner von Gustedt is said to have stepped out of the coach completely naked in front of his future father-in-law because of the great heat: Since he had slept, he could not have known at the destination (the royal spa hotel ) to have already arrived. Both son Otto von Gustedt , his wife, their daughter Auguste Viktoria, son Werner von Gustedt and his wife are buried in the Kissingen chapel cemetery. Jenny von Pappenheim wrote in 1837 about her stay in Kissingen: “Longer walks (in the spa garden) are as good as impossible because you come across grazing cattle everywhere or step into goat droppings. Today a shepherd drove his herd through the spa garden, which one would rather call a zoological garden, because two dancing bears have been showing their tricks here alongside other animals for three days. "
  • 1837: Caroline Bonaparte (1782–1839), youngest sister of Napoléon Bonaparte and widow of the former King of Naples, Joachim Murat , is an exile in Bad Kissingen. The stay is controversial.
  • 1837: Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), mother of Emperor Napoléon III. and former Queen of Holland, accompanied Caroline Bonaparte to Kissingen. The stay is controversial.
  • 1838: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Prussian architect, town planner and painter, came to Bad Kissingen for a cure in 1838 and 1839, probably also in 1840. During his first stay in 1838, on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the arcade building, he met the builder Friedrich von Gärtner and, as the client, the Bavarian King Ludwig I. Schinkel lived in what is now the “Braunwartshaus” on Ludwigstrasse, which at that time belonged to a Jakob Goldmayer .
  • 1839: Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785–1858), German diplomat and chronicler of the Romantic era, came from Berlin and stayed in Kissingen in June and noted in his diary on June 20: “Walked around a lot alone; finally a few hours with Turgenieff and Scharnhorst in lively conversation until 10 a.m. .... Turgenieff in a religious mood, combined with the most decisive instinct for enlightenment and humanity; Scharnhorst clear, bright mind, unprejudiced, northern German intellectual heights, with infinitely good will, pure good-naturedness. ” He came more times in 1840–1843, 1845 - sometimes he stayed with the Badearzt Balling in the“ Ballinghaus ”, sometimes in the“ Haus Ihl ”in Theresienstraße - and in 1856 - this time he stayed with his servant Ganzmann in the hotel " Russischer Hof ".
  • 1839: Wilhelm von Scharnhorst (1786–1854), Prussian general, was also in Kissingen for a cure in June.
  • 1839: Maria Grand Duchess of Weimar (1786–1859), born Grand Duchess of Russia and by marriage Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, visited the spa that summer. She met Varnhagen here on June 22nd , who - according to his diary - would have liked to have avoided her. On June 29th, Varnhagen wrote in his diary: "The Grand Duchess wanted to contribute something to my enjoyment today, but I writhed away in greeting."
  • 1839: Astolphe Marquis de Custine (1790–1857), French travel writer, arrived on June 24th and was introduced to Varnhagen the next day.
  • 1839: Therese Countess Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1798–1866), wife of the landowner and industrialist Eugen Karl Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1796–1868): the palace lady of Empress Maria Anna of Austria is also on the cure.
  • 1839: Wilhelm I. Duke of Nassau (1792–1839) died of a stroke during a cure in Kissingen on August 20, 1839; he bequeathed a foundation named after him to the city "for dowry worthy citizens' daughters".
  • 1840: Theodor Freiherr von Hallberg zu Broich (1768–1862), also known as the “Eremit von Gauting”, is described by Varnhagen after both meetings on June 22nd as follows: “…, with a long white beard, stars, old eccentric, dangling , awkward to look at. "
  • 1840: Prince Günther Friedrich Karl II. Von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1801–1889) is also a guest at the end of June. Varnhagen described him as a "handsome, frank man, simple and good" .
  • 1840: Pauline von Württemberg (1800–1873), queen and wife of Wilhelm I , was on a cure in July with her two daughters, the princesses Katharina (1821–1898) and Auguste (1826–1898). In July 1841 she came a second time, and again in 1842. She always signed up as Countess von Teck .
  • 1840: Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Tettenborn (1778–1845), the famous equestrian general from the Wars of Liberation and currently Baden envoy in Vienna, appears on July 10 for a cure. He also came more times in July 1841, August 1842 and August 1845 and met his friend Varnhagen here . In 1845 he lived with him in the Ballinghaus .

1841 to 1850

  • 1841: Sydney Owenson (1776-1859), better known as Lady Morgan , British poet and romantic writer, arrived in July with her husband Sir Thomas Charles Morgan , personal physician to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn . Varnhagen wrote about her in her diary on July 19, 1841: "Once again the ball of the season took place, with Lady Morgan appearing very dressed up, but speaking very cleverly."
  • 1842: Mary Shelley (1797-1851), British writer, author of the horror classic " Frankenstein ", first published in 1818 , came on June 20 with son Percy, his college friend Andrew Alexander Knox and a maid to a one-month spa stay. After a first night in the Royal Kurhaus Hotel , she stayed for another four weeks until July 18 in Ludwig Friess' guest house (house no. 257 1/4 on Saalestrasse), today's Hotel Wyndham Garden on Bismarckstrasse.
  • 1842: Friedrich Landolin Karl Freiherr von Blittersdorf (1792–1861), Grand Duke of Baden's Foreign Minister, came according to the health resort list in July "with his wife, two young daughters, his son and waitress from Karlsruhe" . He was registered again in 1856.
  • 1842: Robert von Mohl (1799–1875), German political scientist, later also a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Reichstag, wrote to his wife from Kissingen about the local spa concert: “Today my colleagues, the schoolmasters loci, give a concert afterwards. I will hardly go there either. I've had enough of grilling [high-pitched screams] and playing symphony in the Kursaale ( conversation hall ; today: Rossini-Saal in the arcade building ) . Every morning from 11 am to 1 am there is a dilettante concert, which couldn't be more terrible. The best thing is to go in and around like a dovecote. There are good divans along the wall here, you can lie down there and rest for a while and, if it's not too bad, listen too. " Mohl wrote about the writer Varnhagen: " Man has a purely unbearable vanity, and knows everything so definitely, in which not a single word is true. Already in the morning at 6:00 am he is at the fountain with commander's crosses, while no other soul wears a decoration or ribbon. " Mohl lived in a room next to Varnhagen in" Haus Ihl "on Theresienstraße, the house of the imperial pharmacist Johann Baptist Ihl (1807-1865 ), the later "Kurheim Rosengarten". In 1843 he was in Kissingen again.
  • 1842: Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871), landlord, landscape artist, writer and world traveler; he came to Kissingen several times because of his increasingly frequent illnesses, most recently in 1848, and is said to have occasionally made “daring rides through the Kissinger forests” .
  • 1843: Michael of Russia (1798–1849), Grand Duke and younger brother of Tsar Nicholas I , and his wife, Grand Duchess Elena Pawlowna , had rented the entire Ihl'sche Kurhaus in Theresienstraße, which is why Robert von Mohl resigned that year had to stay at the instrument maker Rüdt .
  • 1843: Jenny Lind (1820–1887), “the Swedish nightingale”, Swedish opera singer (soprano), also lived in the Ihl'schen house on Theresienstraße.
  • 1843: Emilie von Gleichen-Rußwurm (1804–1872), the youngest daughter of Friedrich Schiller , also lived in Ihl's house.
  • 1843: Count Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Bludow (1785–1864), Russian interior minister from 1832 to 1839, stayed in Kissingen in July 1843.
  • 1843: Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt (1771–1848), philologist and university professor, stayed in July 1843 for a cure.
  • 1844: Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), German doctor, Japanese and natural scientist, ethnologist, plant collector and botanist, met his future wife Helene von Gagern (1820–1877), daughter of Gustav von , during his stay on the promenade Gagern and Ida von Brauchitsch . The wedding was already a year later (1845).
  • 1844: Karl Robert Graf von Nesselrode (1780–1862), Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire, came to the cure for the first time in 1844 as Vice Chancellor and again in 1850 as Chancellor.
  • 1844: Julius Freiherr von Minutoli (1804–1860), doctor of law and later Prussian police director. His brother-in-law Julius Freiherr von Rotenhan had been the district judge and spa commissioner (spa director) of Bad Kissingen from 1838 to 1841.
  • 1846: Alexandra Amalie von Bayern (1826–1875), Princess of Bavaria, the daughter of Ludwig I first came to the spa town in 1846 at the age of 20 and stayed in the Royal Kurhaus (today the Steigenberger Kurhaushotel ). The song board serenaded her there on June 10th. In the following year 1847 she repeated her visit in the company of her royal father.
  • 1847: Mathilde von Hessen-Darmstadt (1813–1862), Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hessen-Darmstadt and daughter of King Ludwig I, followed her father and sister Alexandra to the family reunion in Kissingen.
  • 1847: Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811–1864), from 1848 King of Bavaria. The Crown Prince, who was to become King the following year, and his wife Marie accompanied the royal father Ludwig I to Kissingen. Maximilian II came once again as king in 1852, this time with his own family, his wife Queen Marie and the princes Ludwig (later Ludwig II.) And Otto . The Bavarian royal couple was accompanied by a court of 65 people. The king came to the cure a third and fourth time in 1856 and 1857.
  • 1847: Wilhelm von Prussia (1783–1851), Prince of Prussia; and Marie's father came to the family visit to Kissingen.
  • 1847: Joseph von Sachsen-Altenburg (1789–1868), Duke of Saxony, eldest brother of the Bavarian Queen Therese , also came to Kissingen for the family reunion.
  • 1847: Georg von Sachsen-Altenburg (1796-1853), from 1848 Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg, also came to Kissingen as a brother for the family reunion.
  • 1847: Friedrich the Elder J. von Sachsen-Altenburg (1801-1870); the younger prince also accompanied his brothers to Kissingen. Another time, in 1864, he attended the “Kaiserkur”.
  • 1849: Thomas Dempster Gordon (1811–1894), Scottish aristocrat, privateer and book collector. The wealthy aristocrat from England came to the spa town of Maison Adam Hailmann (today: Haus Collard ) almost every year from 1849 . In 1870 he married the widow of the hotelier, who died in 1868, Anna Hailmann .
  • 1849: Hermann Gottfried Horn (1788–1849), Protestant pastor in Hamburg; he died during his stay in Bad Kissingen.

1851 to 1860

Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander II
Tsar of Russia
  • 1852: Oscar I of Sweden (1799-1859), King of Sweden and Norway, was his wife, accompanied by Josephine , the granddaughter of the Bavarian King I. Maximilian was.
  • 1852: Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa (1822–1892), from 1864 Queen of Württemberg, sister of the Russian Tsar Alexander II , came to Kissingen in 1852, 1857 and finally in 1864 for the “Kaiserkur” with her husband Karl von Württemberg .
  • 1854: Johann Valentin Hamm (1811–1874), Bavarian music director, composer and pianist, was entered on the spa guest list eight times between 1854 and 1867, but he will have been in Kissingen earlier and more often. His management of a “musical circle” for guests and locals, from which the “Liedertafel” had already developed in 1851, speaks in favor of an earlier presence. From 1855 to 1871 he even took on the role of concertmaster of the Kissingen spa orchestra under the conductor and bandmaster Matthias Heinefetter from Mainz. On August 4, 1855, he himself gave a large concert “with the friendly cooperation of the art difficulties attending the cure.” He brought out a total of 86 dances, marches and songs especially for the Kissinger spa orchestra under the title “Kissinger Bad Season, Popular Dances and marches by the Cur orchestra for the Piano Forte ” . Shortly before his death, Hamm dedicated one of his last compositions to another loyal spa guest, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, with the "Bismarck Rescue Jubilation March" , after he was only slightly injured by a pistol shot during his first stay in Kissingen in 1874 .
  • 1855: Julius Schrader (1815–1900), well-known painter in Berlin and at the time involved in the painting of the Neues Museum , is in the spa town in August and draws a caricature of Kissinger spa guests (2009 in the exhibition “Beautiful and ugly” in the Schäfer Museum in Schweinfurt).
  • 1856: Prince Alois II of Liechtenstein (1796–1858) stayed at Hotel Maulick with his family and servants (37 people) from June 7th.
  • 1856: Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868), Italian composer, who had lived in Paris again since 1855, came to Bad Kissingen with his wife Olymp in July after an initial spa stay in Wildbad and stayed until August. During his stay at the spa he composed “Mi lagnerò tacendo” , a setting of a work by the Italian poet Pietro Metastasio for voice and piano, which he dated “Kissingene, ce 27 Jul. 1856” .
  • 1856: Alexis Revenaz (1801–1861), widowed landowner and director of the French shipping company Cie. des Services Messageries Imperiales from Paris, stayed in Bad Kissingen with his eldest son Gustave (1835–1896) since August 1st. The composer Gioacchino Rossini wrote down eight bars in the treble clef on a sheet of paper and inscribed it with “a Mr Revenaz / G. Rossini / Kissingen, ce 16 Aout 1856” . The spa list led him as "Mr. Revenaz, Proprietair with Mr. Son and waitress from Paris" .
  • 1857: Alexander II. (1818–1881), Russian tsar, and his wife Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1824–1880), native Germans from the house of Hesse-Darmstadt , visited Kissingen for the first time in July 1857 as a count and countess “for spa use” Borodinsky with two children, accompanied by an entourage of 200 people. It was the first long stay abroad of the tsar after his coronation in August 1856. On the Kissinger Kurpromenade, the tsar met the Burmese general Louis Charles Girodon d'Orgoni (1811– ??) against the express advice of his foreign minister Alexander Michailowitsch Gorchakov native French to discuss the situation in India with him . The Tsar couple also came in June 1864 (“Kaiserkur”), accompanied by a court of 88 people, and met the Austrian imperial couple Franz Joseph and Elisabeth on July 19. Tsarina Marie disliked this meeting of 1864 very much, which is why she wrote to her brother Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt beforehand: “In the latter place I am terribly embarrassed by the Empress of Austria. Crowned heads should never drink from the same spring; I am counting on Elisabeth's fear of people and that she will have as little desire to see me as I will her; I'm not talking about the Kaiser at all, he will hopefully only stay for a short time. ”By contrast, Bavaria's young King Ludwig II found her “ very beautiful and extremely attractive in conversation ” . The Tsar couple last came a third time in 1868. The Tsar liked to ride with his two eldest sons Nikolaj and Alexander III. through the cascade valley , the sons on red-saddled donkeys. The family also made trips to Aschach for coffee in the rotunda of the castle or in the garden restaurant of the Cyriakus Voll (today: Gasthaus Zum Hirschen ).
  • 1857: Eduard Graf Clam – Gallas (1805–1891), Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and Commanding General in Bohemia, came out in June with his wife Clothilde, the palace lady of Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) of Austria – Hungary , as well as her daughter, governess and servants Prague ; you stay in the Hotel Carl von Hess .
  • 1858: Pauline von Württemberg (1800–1873), Queen of Württemberg, arrived in June under the pseudonym Countess von Teck together with her daughter Catharine ( Countess Catharine von Teck ) with lady-in-waiting, chief steward, chamberlain and entourage of 27 people; she stayed at the Hotel Carl von Hess on the spa promenade.
  • 1858: Otto I of Greece (1815–1867), King of Greece, son of the Bavarian King Ludwig I , came, like his father, to Kissingen for a cure.
  • 1858: Lothar Freiherr von Faber (1817–1896), industrialist; The pencil manufacturer came to Kissingen from Stein (Middle Franconia) to relax.
  • 1859: Alexander Meschtscherski , Russian prince; he became a member of the Kissinger Schützen-Gesellschaft and donated a Russian drinking vessel made of silver with gold-plated inside.
  • 1860: Count Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian writer, lived in the house of the master mason and magistrate Georg Fuß (today 19 Maxstrasse).

1861 to 1863

Elisabeth of Austria
  • 1861: Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse (1802–1875), the last ruling elector and sovereign Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, was entered in the spa guest list in mid-May under the pseudonym "Graf von Hanau" ; He had come from Kassel with his adjutant general and adjutant wing , the cabinet treasurer and the secret cabinet registrar as well as entourage and waitress (13 people) and stayed in the hotel "Carl von Hess" on the spa promenade. Once again he followed his morganatic wife Gertrude Fürstin von Hanau as “Count von Hanau” in May 1863 with adjutant and servants from Kassel (14 people) and lived again at “Carl von Hess”.
  • 1862: Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (1837–1898), Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, came for the first time at the age of 24 on June 2, 1862, and two more times in June 1863 and June 1864 ("Kaiserkur"), again in July 1865, in May 1897 and in the year of her death in April 1898 for the last time. The last time she lived in the Villa Monbijou on Altenberg . In total, she visited the spa town six times under the pseudonym "Countess von Hohenembs" , which soon could no longer hide her true identity in Kissingen. On her arrival in 1862, the Empress was accompanied by Major General Alfred Graf von Königsegg-Aulendorf (1817–1898) and his wife Pauline , Chief Chamberlain to the Empress, Councilor and Chief Medical Officer Heinrich Fischer (1814–1874), Countess Caroline von Hunyady (1836– 1907), Sisi's lady-in-waiting and daughter of the first court master Josef Graf von Hunyady (1801–1869), as well as court maids, house officers and servants from Vienna (25 people). She stayed in the hotel "Carl von Hess" on the spa promenade. During their stay at the spa in 1864, they accompanied the Emperor's adjutant general Franz Graf Folliot de Crenneville , major general Alfred Graf von Königsegg-Aulendorf and his wife Pauline , court master prince Constantin zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , Sisi's sister princess Helene von Thurn und Taxis , Caroline countess von Hunyady , chambermaids , House officers and servants from Vienna (49 people). The imperial couple stayed again in the hotel "Carl von Hess". During her last stay in 1898, the 64-year-old Alfred Sotier was her spa doctor. During another spa stay, she also lived in the villa “Mon Bijou”.
  • 1863: Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, came with his wife, Empress Sisi, as "Count and Countess of Hohenembs" with various counts, countesses, princes, house officers, Chambermaids and servants from Vienna (35 people) and stayed again in the hotel "Carl von Hess". The next time he accompanied her in 1864 ("Kaiserkur"), accompanied by a court of 56 people, and in 1898 he visited her during her last treatment; During a walk together, the last photo of the imperial couple was taken shortly before Sisi's death.
  • 1863: Carl Theodor Herzog in Bavaria (1839–1909), German infantry general and well-known ophthalmologist, father-in-law of the Belgian King Albert I , met here with his sister, the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Sisi).
  • 1863: Gertrude Fürstin von Hanau (1803–1882), morganatic wife of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse , traveled at the beginning of May with her daughter-in-law, the wife of her son Wilhelm von Hanau , who later became Prince of Hanau, as well as ladies-in-waiting, personal physician and Servants (25 people). While Princess Gertrude stayed in the Hotel "Kaiser", her daughter-in-law ( Princess Wilhelm ) stayed in the neighboring Hotel "Carl von Hess". Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse followed there in mid-May . In July 1867 she came a second time, this time with Fraulein von Oeynhausen and Chamberlain Fabrice with entourage and servants (26 people). This time she stayed at the "Carl von Hess".
  • 1863: Bruno Fürst zu Ysenburg and Büdingen (1837–1906), 3rd Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen, came to the spa town in mid-May with his first wife Mathilde Princess zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and servants (4 people) and stayed in the hotel "Kaiser" on the spa promenade
  • 1863: Leopold von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1824-1884), major general in Austrian service, came with his morganatic wife Konstanze Freifrau von Ruttenstein , whom he had married two years earlier in Vienna, as well as family and servants from Vienna (7 people) . In the year of the "Kaiserkur" (1864) he came again.

1864, the year of the "Kaiserkur"

Ludwig II of Bavaria
  • 1864: Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), King of Bavaria, came to Kissingen for the first time after his coronation at the age of 18 to attend what is now known as the "Imperial Cure" meeting of the Russian Tsar and Austrian imperial couple To perceive the host role as the Bavarian king. After the end of the German War of 1866 he came a second time and in 1868 for the third and last time.
  • 1864: Alexander II of Russia (1818–1881), Russian tsar, came to the “Weltbad Kissingen” in June with his wife Maria Alexandrovna and daughters. Later came Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov added that only just died a year later. The tsar had already been to Kissingen in 1857, accompanied by his wife, and came a third time in 1868.
  • 1864: Katharina Dolgoruki , the lover and later wife of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, stayed at the same time in Kissingen and lived on the Lindesmühlpromenade.
  • 1864: Peter von Oldenburg (1827–1900), Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • 1864: Gustav of Sweden (1799–1877), Prince of Wasa
  • 1864: Adolf I of Nassau (1817–1905), Duke of Nassau, from 1890 also Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • 1864: Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt (1823–1888), founder of the modern house of Battenberg , brother-in-law of the Russian Tsar Alexander II.
  • 1864: Karl von Württemberg (1823-1891), King of Württemberg, came in June with his wife Olga, the sister of the Russian tsar, to visit him during the “Kaiserkur”. Olga had already been in Kissingen in 1852 and 1857. The royal couple was accompanied by an entourage of 49 people.
  • 1864: Marie of Naples and Sicily (1841–1925), Queen of the Two Sicilies, wife of King Franz II , came to Kissingen in June for what is now known as the “Kaiserkur” to meet her older sister, the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Sisi). She came back from Italy in 1876 with her husband as "Count and Countess Trani" .
  • 1864: Max in Bavaria (1808–1888), Duke in Bavaria, father of the Austrian Empress Sisi
  • 1864: Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar (1818–1901), Grand Duke of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
  • 1864: Constantine of Russia (1827–1892), Russian Grand Duke, younger brother of Tsar Alexander II.
  • 1864: Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823–1883), Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, came with his wife Auguste.
  • 1864: Karl von Hessen (1809–1877), Prince of Hessen-Darmstadt, brother of the Hessian Grand Duke Ludwig III. , visited Kissingen together with his daughter Princess Marie.
  • 1864: Marie von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1796–1880), Grand Duchess and widow of Grand Duke Georg von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , was seen in Kissingen in the year of the “Imperial Cure”. A few days later her son Georg (1824–1876) also came to visit. In 1870, the Grand Duchess came to Kissingen again, this time with Duchess Caroline and an entourage of 12. Again they resided in the hotel "Carl von Hess" on the spa promenade.
  • 1864: Stephan of Austria (1817–1867), Archduke of Austria
  • 1864: Joseph of Austria (1833–1905), Archduke of Austria, General of the Cavalry, came to the “Imperial Cure” with his wife Archduchess Clotilde .
  • 1864: Peter von Oldenburg (1812–1881), Prince of Oldenburg and son of Prince Georg von Oldenburg , cousin of the reigning Grand Duke Peter II of the same name .
  • 1864: Maria von Hannover (1818–1907), Queen of Hanover, wife of King George V of Hanover ; further visits followed annually from 1883 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893 as well as in 1895. She only came when Otto von Bismarck was not present.
  • 1864: Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895), language teacher and publisher, came from Berlin as a young but successful publisher in the year of the “Kaiserkur”.
  • 1864: Charles Steinway (1829–1865), baptized as Carl Steinweg , German-American piano manufacturer, son of the company's founder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg , came from New York City with his wife .
  • 1864: Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), German-Jewish historian, had come from Breslau to take a cure in the summer.

1865 to 1870

Heinrich Schliemann
  • 1867: Prince Yusupov , chamberlain of Tsar Alexander II , member of what is probably the richest and most influential family in Russia after the Tsar, came in July with his wife and two children, accompanied by a governess and entourage from St. Petersburg (9 people).
  • 1867: Charlotte Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1811-1895), Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, wife of Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott , 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry, lived from August 19 with the daughters Lady Margret and Lady Mary as well as Lord Henry Scott and servants from Scotland (12 people) in the Hotel "Kaiser".
  • 1867: Abner Weyman Colgate (1838–1904), American entrepreneur, visited the spa and then wrote an amazing travelogue about his stay. He lived in the " Russian Court " (1 person).
  • 1867: Melchior Meyr (1810–1871), poet and philosopher in Munich, stayed in Kissingen in 1867 and 1868 for a cure.
  • 1868: Elisabeth of Austria (1831–1903), Archduchess of Austria, arrived on June 10th with lady-in-waiting, chamberlain and entourage (8 people) and stayed in the hotel "Carl von Hess" on the spa promenade
  • 1868: Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818–1874), Archduke of Austria, came to Kissingen with an accompanying person on July 7th and stayed with his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth, in the hotel "Carl von Hess".
  • 1868: Ludwig III. von Hessen-Darmstadt (1806–1877), Grand Duke of Hesse , arrived on August 5th with servants from Darmstadt (9 people) and stayed at the “Kaiser” hotel.
  • 1868: Rudolf Rempel (1815–1868), industrialist and politician, died during his stay in Bad Kissingen.
  • 1868: Joseph Sachs (1816–1868), German-American educator and father of the US banker Samuel Sachs ( Goldman Sachs ) came to Bad Kissingen for a cure on July 29, 1868 and died here on August 12, just a few days after his 52nd birthday.
  • 1869: Heinrich Brockhaus (1804–1874), German bookseller, publisher and politician, arrived on May 21 with a servant at the Balling Sanatorium .
  • 1869: Ernst I. von Sachsen-Altenburg (1826–1908), Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg , arrived on June 16 with adjutant, personal physician and servants from Altenburg (7 people) and stayed at the Hotel Kaiser.
  • 1870: Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), who was staying with the spa doctor Ignaz Ising for a cure, met with the Chancellor Prince Bismarck in Kissingen.

1871 to 1880

Justus von Liebig
Otto von Bismarck
Alfred Nobel
  • 1871: Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925), wife of the Prince of Wales , traveled incognito in July with five children as “Baroness Renfrew” , accompanied by the prince's treasurer, General Sir William Knollys (1797–1883), and servants England (20 people). The gentlemen stayed in the Hotel "Kaiser" on the spa promenade. On April 7th she had lost her sixth child Alexander Johann just one day after the birth. One of her children was the future British King George V .
  • 1871: Count Kronborg , from August 8th the Count couple Kronborg from England and Baroness Danneskjold-Samsø stayed with servants from Denmark (9 people) in the hotel "Kaiser". These were probably friends or even relatives of the Danish Princess Alexandra.
  • 1871: Prince Nicolaus von Gagarin (1823–1902), Russian prince, stayed on July 6th with family, governess and waitress from St. Petersburg (5 people) in the hotel " Kaiserhof Victoria " on the spa promenade.
  • 1871: Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German chemist, got to know and appreciate the Kissinger Heilwasser during his stay and mixed the well-known “bitter water”. He lived in today's residential building at Kurhausstrasse 19 .
  • 1872: Max Emanuel in Bavaria (1849–1893), Duke in Bavaria, youngest brother of the Austrian Empress Sisi, stayed at the Hotel "Kaiser" from July 23rd.
  • 1872: Philipp Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1921), Major in the Hungarian Landwehr, came with his wife from Hungary at the same time as Max Emanuel in Bavaria. Philipp was accompanied by his younger sister Amalie, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , who will marry Max Emanuel three years later (1875). You will also live in the Hotel "Kaiser".
  • 1872: Ludwig Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845–1907), imperial Brazilian admiral, arrives on July 23rd from Groß Sölk ( Liezen district , Styria ) for the siblings' meeting at the Kissing “Hotel Kaiser”. His escort consists of 13 people.
  • 1873: August Benckiser (1820–1894), mechanical engineer and manufacturer, was made aware of the Maßbach manor during his cure and bought the 400 hectare manor in 1879 for 300,000 gold marks. Later he was also the owner of the Thundorf castle estate in Lower Franconia .
  • 1874: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), German Chancellor, came for the first time from July 4 to August 12, 1874 and was greeted by Edmund Diruf the Elder on July 13 when he left his accommodation, the guest house . J. (today: Heiligenfeld- "Klinik am Rosengarten" in Bismarckstrasse 16 ), shot by Eduard Kullmann , a Magdeburg cooperage . Nevertheless, Bismarck came another 14 times, accompanied by his personal physician Ernst Schweninger , but now stayed in the former prince-bishop's rooms of the " Upper Saline " (today: Bismarck Museum) and visited the spa town in 1893 for the last time. Not only did he come to “slim down” for several weeks at a time, he also made “great world politics” and regularly received diplomats and political delegations. For example, he had his programmatic “ Kissinger Diktat ” written down here in June 1877 , in 1878 he conferred with the papal nuncio Msgr. Gaetano Aloisi Masella , in 1882 a ministerial conference took place to discuss the German customs issue and visited him from July 21-25, 1886 During the Bulgaria crisis (1885-1887) the Austrian Foreign Minister Count Gustav Kálnoky von Köröspatak , the Russian Ambassador Arthur Baron von Mohrenheim himself came to the cure in July and visited Bismarck. A Chinese special commission also came to Bad Kissingen in 1886 for political talks. A telegraph station was set up for Bismarck's stay in 1886, and a post office clerk delivered his incoming correspondence twice a day. The presence of Franz Johannes von Rottenburg (1845–1907), head of the Reich Chancellery from October 14, 1881 to January 19, 1891, proved the smooth continuation of political business in the spa town. As early as 1874, on the occasion of his first visit to the Wiener Neue Freie Presse, it was not unjustifiably to read what was adopted by the entire European press: “Since yesterday noon the focus of the German Reich has been moved to Kissingen.” After his release came Bismarck took a cure as a private citizen from 1890 to 1893. But even as a private person he still drew countless admirers to the spa town; on July 24, 1892 alone, approx. 4,500 people in special trains to Bad Kissingen to cheer their idol. In 1877 a Bismarck statue was erected on the Franconian Saale , the only one during his lifetime, and in 1885 the spa town granted him honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of service.

  • 1874: Ernst Schmidt (1830–1900), German-American physician, emigrated March revolutionary and later candidate for mayor in Chicago, unexpectedly bumped into Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the summer of 1874 in the salt bath.
  • 1874: José Lederer (1842–1895), Hungarian opera singer, stood in the cheering crowd during the assassination attempt on Bismarck on July 13, 1874 and seized the assassin Eduard Kullmann .
  • 1874: Adolf Wilhelm Kessler (1839–1895), banker in Paris, came to Kissingen with his Irish wife Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch and his 6-year-old son Harry at the same time as Bismarck and stayed next door in the "Hotel Holzmann" (today: "Hotel Bristol"). The son Harry Graf Kessler , who was raised to the rank of count with his father in 1881 , came to Bad Kissingen again at the age of 22 in 1891 as a representative of the Leipzig student body and the German student body to pay homage to Bismarck. Count Harry wrote about his stays in the spa town in his book “Faces and Times” ( collected writings in three volumes , volume 1. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-596-25678-X ).
  • 1875: Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist and inventor, visited no fewer than 17 different health resorts in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria in the 30 years between 1866 and 1896. He was in Kissingen for the first time in August 1875, came from Paris, where he lived at the time, and stayed at the Bayerischer Hof hotel. In July 1891 he came a second time. Several other relatives also visited the spa town in later years, the best known being his nephew Emanuel Nobel (1914).
  • 1876: Duchess de Castro , traveled from Paris at the end of June, accompanied by Count de la Tour en Voivre and a Fraulein McShane and servants (8 people). They lived in the hotel "Kaiser".
  • 1876: Maximilian Graf Coudenhove (1805–1889), Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order , kuk Feldmarschallleutnant , member of the Austrian mansion , arrived on July 2nd with service from Vienna and stayed at the Hotel "Kaiser". He came again in 1888.
  • 1876: August Velhagen (1809–1891), bookseller
  • 1876: Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910), landscape painter
  • 1877: Franz II of Naples-Sicily (1836–1894), formerly the last king of the two Sicilies , husband of the Bavarian Duchess Marie
  • 1878: Elisabeth von Oldenburg (1826–1896), Grand Duchess and wife of Grand Duke Peter von Oldenburg , stayed at the Hotel Kaiser as “Countess Rastede” from May 14th; she was accompanied by a 7-member retinue.
  • 1878: Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886), German writer and poet, came to the spa town at least in 1878, 1880, 1882 and 1883 and lived in the house of the spa doctor Oskar von Diruf (today: Maxstraße 17). During his stay in 1880 he wrote: "Kissingen - lovely valley of the Saale, here the sorceress nature donates the Rakoczy and Pandur springs with pearl-rich bubbles."
  • 1879: Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow (1865–1936), Russian composer, came to Kissingen with his parents at the age of 14. In his biography he wrote about the Kissinger Kurorchester.
  • 1880: Augusta von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1822–1916), Grand Duchess and wife of Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , came to the Hotel Kaiserhof as the “Countess of Schwerin” with servants.

1881 to 1890

Adolph von Menzel
Theodor Fontane
Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • 1882: Alfred Prince of Great Britain and Ireland (1844–1900), Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Duke of Saxony, Prince of Henneberg, son of Queen Victoria , visited Kissingen, which is very popular with the English.
  • 1882: Jekaterina Michailowna Dolgorukowa (1847–1922), morganatic widow of the Russian Tsar Alexander II , came to rest in the summer with her three children Georgi, Olga and Jekatarina.
  • 1884: Max Liebermann (1847–1935), then 37-year-old painter from Berlin, meets his bride Martha Marckwald in Bad Kissingen in July 1884 , whom he will marry two months later on September 14th. Martha stayed with her mother Ottilie Marckwald “with family and service” (4 people) on July 13th in the “Grand Hotel garni” (today “Haus Collard”) for a spa stay. The Berlin art historian Max Osborn (1870–1946), who at that time was also a young high school student in the spa town, later recalled: “Suddenly a younger man with sparkling eyes and the thickest bushes of black hair appears every morning on the fountain promenade of the young Beautifully presented a large bouquet of flowers. That had to be the designated or already appointed groom. "
  • 1884: Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), painter, came in the years 1884–1886, 1888–1890, 1893–1898 as well as 1900 and 1904. At least in the years 1886 (arrival on July 15 as spa guest no. 5194) , 1888 and 1889 as well as 1893 (arrival on July 23 as spa guest no. 6994) he lived in the house " Philipp Hailmann " at Kurhausstrasse 3 (today: Martin-Luther-Strasse 9). On August 5, 1889, he was allowed to open the newly created “ Golden Book ” of the spa town with a full-page frontispiece . In 1895 the spa town granted him honorary citizenship on his 80th birthday; Menzel had painted and drawn a number of Kissinger motifs. According to his own statement, Menzel saw himself as a “non-spa guest” in order to be able to indulge in Franconian wine undisturbed: Even today people talk about his fall into the wine cellar of the “ Weinstube Schubert ”, as Menzel, inspired by wine, on the way to the toilet opened the wrong door by mistake. A bay window on the first floor of the “Rößner's” on the market square is now called “Menzels-Eck”; he often sat here and made a number of sketches.
  • 1886: The "Neue Würzburger Zeitung" reported the arrival of new spa guests on May 30th in the days up to May 28th, including a Prince Obolensky from Saint Petersburg, who lived with his wife and servants in the "Royal Kurhaus" (today the "Steigenberger Kurhaushotel") ) had descended; it could have been the Russian prince Leonid Nikolaiewitsch Obolenski (1843-1910) and his wife Daria Ivanovna Schmidt (1850-1923).
  • 1886: Arthur Baron von Mohrenheim (1824–1906), Russian ambassador, came from Paris to Bad Kissingen for a cure, also to have confidential talks with another well-known spa guest, the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The latest reports reported on July 23, 1886 : "Incidentally, the Russian ambassador to Paris, Baron Mohrenheim, is there (in Bad Kissingen) for a cure and in communication with the Reich Chancellor."
  • 1888: Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1852–1925), ruling prince, traveled with servants and occupied rooms in the two neighboring hotels "Kaiserhof" and "Victoria" .
  • 1888: Simon Blad (1818–1896), reindeer from Berlin; In 1888 he was granted honorary citizenship: with two interruptions, he has been a spa guest every year since 1848.
  • 1889: Auguste Viktoria (1858–1921), the last German Empress, had been to Kissingen for the first time in 1876, this time came on June 28th with her children and was looked after by the spa doctor Alfred Sotier . Prince Eitel Friedrich celebrated his sixth birthday here on July 7th. The “ Latest Mitheilungen ” of July 9, 1889 reported: “He received a pony from his parents, on which he was photographed for the imperial father during the day. The presents, including the first writing materials, lay around the birthday cake with six lights of life. The ladies of Kissingen sent the empress a jumping jack filled with candy through the bath doctor, and the town of Kissingen a sleigh made of flowers. The Kaiser had added congratulations for the birthday child to his daily telegram. The Empress continues her cure in Kissingen with good results. "
  • 1889: Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German journalist and writer, had already been a war correspondent in Kissingen in the German War in 1866 , but it was not until 1889, 1890 and 1891 that he came with his wife Emilie as a private spa guest. During his last stay, he wrote to his daughter: “Bismarck will arrive here on the 20th; here he is still the undhroned god. ” On June 29, 1890, he had written to his son Friedrich:“ I had to register a few days ago in the local celebrity book, first Menzel with a picture, then I with a verse in Kissingen. I estimate the Menzel picture at at least 500 marks, my verse at 50 pfennigs; that marks the position of the arts among each other; the rhyming, even the good one, is always cinderella. "His little story " A woman in my years " is set in Bad Kissingen and also has the chapel cemetery , which was contested in 1866, as its setting. His poem "Famous Men in Kissingen" , in which he also pays tribute to the painter Adolph von Menzel and the writer Leo Tolstoi as Bad Kissingen spa guests, begins with the verses:
In summer, when there is no breeze under the linden trees,
The focus of the empire has shifted to Kissingen.
Because Bismarck is a warrior with a powerful step even in the bath,
And if he just writes a telegram, the neighboring country will tremble too.
Now he should take a break from work, as it says in Schwenninger's bulletin,
But the diplomats come from everywhere.
The prince captured many beautiful ladies' hearts by storm.
The spa town is grateful to him and is sure to build a tower for him.
  • 1889: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Polish writer and later Nobel Prize laureate , traveled frequently within Europe, lived in Bad Kissingen in what is now the house at Hartmannstrasse 3.
  • 1890: Anton Memminger (1846–1923), Bavarian publisher, author and politician, wrote in 1890: “Prince Bismarck telegraphed me to Bad Kissingen after he left. Immediately after my arrival, the prince received me, greeted me and expressed his appreciation for 'a dashing and apt article', which is how I described his dismissal. “ It is not known when Memminger actually came to Bad Kissingen for the first time. His book “Kissingen - History of the City and the Baths” (Würzburg 1923) was not only given “excellent press reviews” , but “entered the letter of honorary citizenship of the city of Kissingen on the author, the long-time visitor and glorifier of the Saale baths” .

1891 to 1900

William Waldorf Astor
  • 1892: Fred Miller , American brewery owner from Milwaukee , son of the brewery founder Frederick Miller of the Miller Brewing Company .
  • 1895: Louis Stern , wealthy Jewish US entrepreneur, was with his wife Lisette and son Louis jun. in Bad Kissingen. On July 11, there was a scandal in the Kursaal during a dance event after Stern was asked by the deputy bath commissioner (deputy spa director) Assessor Baron von Thüngen to send his son, who was only 15 years old, out of the Kursaal, and Stern himself refused. The widening scandal with the threat of slaps even led to diplomatic entanglements between the German and the US State Department. In May 1896 there was a "sharp exchange between Minister Olney and Baron von Thielmann, " which the New York Times reported on May 22nd. (see Louis Stern affair )
  • 1895: William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848–1919), British entrepreneur, the great-grandson of the German emigrant Johann Jakob Astor was (probably) first in Bad Kissingen in July 1895 and witnessed the Louis Stern affair there (see above); Together with other Stern sympathizers, he sent a joint protest note to the Bavarian Ministry of Justice after the incident, which was carefully observed by US authorities. In July 1910 he met again with an escort from Hever Castle ( Kent ) in the spa town.
  • 1897: Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German ancient orientalist, receives honorary citizenship for 25 bath visits
  • 1897: Princess von Troubetskoy , arrived with waitress from St. Petersburg (2 people). Both stayed separately in the neighboring hotels "Kaiserhof" and "Victoria" .
  • 1897: Thakore Saheb of Mori , Maharajah in India, came on September 1st with Mr. Gokal and Curia from Kathiawar in India . The gentlemen stayed in the two hotels "Kaiserhof" and "Victoria".
  • 1897: Xu Jingcheng (1845–1900), Imperial Chinese diplomat
  • 1898: Paul Heyse (1830–1914), the first German Nobel Prize laureate for literature, wrote his novella “Ein Familienhaus” during his stay in Bad Kissingen , the plot of which also takes place in Bad Kissingen.
  • 1898: Klara Ziegler (1844–1909), German actress
  • 1898: Ernst Ritter von Possart (1841–1921), German actor, director of the Munich court theater
  • 1898: Marie Valerie of Austria (1868–1924), daughter of the Austrian imperial couple Franz Joseph and Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi), visited her parents in Kissingen with her husband Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany .
  • 1898: Katharina Schratt (1853–1940), Austrian actress and “secret” lover of Sisi's husband Emperor Franz Joseph I , came to the spa in 1898 and again in 1899. Like Empress Sisi, she was treated by Alfred Sotier . After her first cure, Emperor Franz Joseph wrote to Sisi: “The Kissinger cure seemed to have done her good, although she did not follow Sotier's instructions exactly ... Her Sotier also made a lot of reproaches, found that she was just as disobedient as you and said that she was Empress No. 2! "

1901 to 1910

  • 1901: Wilhelm Merkel (1833–1920), councilor, gynecologist from Erlangen, lived in Ulrichs Gartenvilla sanatorium at Frühlingstrasse 1.
  • 1902: Nikola I of Montenegro (1841–1921), Prince of Montenegro, came to the cure in 1902 and 1903.
  • 1903: Pawel Alexandrowitsch Romanow (1860-1919), Russian Grand Duke, sixth son of Tsar Alexander II , came to Bad Kissingen several times between 1903 and 1911, together with his morganatic second wife Olga Princess Paley (1865-1929) and son Prince Vladimir (1897-1918).
  • 1903: Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter (1852–1912), German diplomat and since 1910 head of the Foreign Office , lived in the Villa Germania on Bismarckstrasse. He also came to Bad Kissingen for a cure in 1908 and 1910–1912. During his stays in 1911 and 1912, he negotiated with foreign ambassadors in the spa town and pursued German politics from here.
  • 1906: Gustav Graf von Blome (1829–1906), diplomat of German descent in Austrian service and member of the Austrian mansion, got down from the royal spa on July 10th according to the spa list "with Miss Daughter and waitress" (today: Steigenberger Kurhaushotel). When he arrived, Blome was seriously ill. From August 15, his wife and a few days later his sons came to say goodbye to the dying man. Blome died just five weeks after arriving in Bad Kissingen on August 24 at 3 a.m. According to his wishes, he was buried at the place of death; His grave can still be seen today in the spa town's chapel cemetery.
  • 1907: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917), German general and airship designer, called "the old man from Lake Constance" ; on his orders, a zeppelin is said to have dropped a sack of mail above his “Diana” health resort.
  • 1908: Christian von Schleswig-Holstein (1831–1917), Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, received honorary citizenship in 1908 for 20 bath visits
  • 1909: Franz Freiherr von Ringhoffer (1844–1909), Austrian industrialist and landowner in Bohemia, member of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council, died of a kidney disease during his stay in Bad Kissingen. Transfer of the body to Prague.
  • 1910: Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-American writer, literary scholar and butterfly researcher. The writer, who became world-famous only decades later (1955) through his novel “ Lolita ”, stayed at the age of 11 with parents and brother in the spa town from autumn 1910 to January 1911, where he cultivated his hobby of lepidopterology (butterfly studies). Nabokov wrote about this in his memoir: I soon found out that a lepidopterist pursuing his silent search can easily trigger strange reactions in other beings. How often when it was going to a picnic and I tried, embarrassed, to put my modest equipment unnoticed in the char-à-bancs that smelled of tar (a tar preparation should keep the flies away from the horses) or in the tar-smelling Opel convertible (see above) smuggled gasoline forty years ago), some cousin or aunt remarked: “Do you really have to take this net with you? Can't you keep busy like a normal boy? Don't you think you're spoiling everyone's fun? ”Just as I was about to stand near a sign to BODENLAUBE near Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, my father and the majestic old Muromzew (the four years before, 1906, president of the first Russian Parliament) on a long walk, the latter turned his marble head to me, a vulnerable eleven-year-old, and said with his famous solemnity: “Be sure to come with me, but don't chase butterflies, child. It disturbs the rhythm of the walk. ”The same scene can be found in WG Sebald's book “ The Emigrants ” . It quotes from the memoirs of Luisa Ferber , née Landsberg from Steinach , mother of the emigrant and artist Max Ferber in Manchester , who one day in Bad Kissingen remarked two serious Russian gentlemen and a little boy: “… .. two very refined Russian gentlemen , one of whom (who looked particularly majestic) was speaking seriously to a boy of about 10 who had been chasing butterflies and had lagged so far behind that they had to wait for him. ” In January 1911, Nabokov traveled with his tutor Filip Zelenski to Berlin and stayed at the Hotel Adlon for the next three months .
  • 1910: Sergei Andrejewitsch Muromzew (1850–1910), Russian legal scholar, President of the first State Duma in Tsarist Russia (1906), stayed in Bad Kissingen that autumn with the Nabokov family . Only a few days later he died in Moscow in mid-October.
  • 1910: Christian Sandrock (1862–1924), German painter and writer, brother of the well-known actress Adele Sandrock , first came to Bad Kissingen for the premiere of his play “Jeanne” in 1910 , then went to a cure several times and died in 1924 during one Spa stay.
  • 1910: Henning August Graf von Arnim-Schlagenthin (1851-1910), member of the Reich Commission for the Study of Stock Exchange Studies and ex-husband of the British writer Elizabeth von Arnim , died on August 20th during his stay at the spa.

1911 to 1920

Louis Botha
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
  • 1911: Robert Sterl (1867–1932), German impressionist.
  • 1911: Louis Botha (1862–1919), first Prime Minister of the South African Union , visited Bad Kissingen several times for a cure. On July 18, 1911, he officially opened the new Bad Kissingen golf course , which was built at his suggestion.
  • 1911: Jules Cambon , the French ambassador to Germany, met Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter , the head of the Foreign Office, in the spa town for a political discussion during the Second Morocco Crisis
  • 1911: Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917), Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and philologist, inventor of the artificial language “ Esperanto ”, first came to Bad Kissingen for a cure in July 1911 and stayed in the house “Franconia”, Bismarckstraße 22, at the corner of Schönbornstraße. Esperanto Square has been located on this street corner since 1991.
  • 1911: On August 11, 1911, Abbas Hilmi II (1874–1944) signed the Golden Book of the spa town; he was the last Khedive of Egypt (1892–1914).
  • 1912: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish poet, arrived on August 4th with his wife and waitress from London , along with the writer's sister-in-law, Mrs. Hugh Cholmondeley from Edstaston, Wem, Shropshire . The poet had only accompanied the two sisters and corrected the first proofs of his " Pygmalion ". On August 9th he wrote u. a .: "I also drank some of the water - just one sip, and that was enough for me for the rest of my life."
  • 1913: Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Romanow (1878–1918), Russian Grand Duke, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II , stayed in Bad Kissingen for a cure at least from August 19 to September 7, 1913.
  • 1913: Karl Süssheim (1878–1947), German orientalist, stayed at the Royal Kurhaus Hotel in mid-March.
  • 1914: Emanuel Nobel (1859–1932), Swedish-Russian oil magnate, nephew of Alfred Nobel , first visited the spa town in 1914; further visits are documented in 1923 and 1930. On his last visit, he donated the “Emanuel Nobel Cup” to the Bad Kissinger Golf Club, for which it is still played today (2008).
  • 1914: Alexei Alexejewitsch Brussilow (1853–1926), Russian general, was a guest at Paul Sotier's "Hotel Fürstenhof" with his wife . When he received news of the death (June 28, 1914) of the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand , he left because his army corps was on the Austro-Hungarian border.
  • 1914: Felix Felixowitsch Jussupow ("Fürst Jussupow" for short) from Russia, stayed at the "Hotel Fürstenhof" shortly before the start of the First World War (August 1, 1914) and was arrested with his family in Berlin after August 2, where there had been the first riots against Russians. - In 1867 a prince Jussupow , chamberlain of the tsar, came to Bad Kissingen.
  • 1914: Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (1883–?), German-Ukrainian author, was taking a cure with his parents in the Hotel “Vier Jahreszeiten” (3 people) when the First World War broke out. He was arrested and held with approx. 500 other Russian spa guests from Bad Kissingen were trapped on the Plassenburg in Kulmbach and later deported to Russia. He came to the spa town at least once more for an evening lecture with the local NSDAP on October 5, 1926.
  • 1914: Henry John Heinz (1844–1919), American ketchup manufacturer of German descent, stayed several times in Bad Kissingen for a cure, the last time evidently being in 1914. When the First World War broke out, he was not allowed to leave his hotel room. However, he managed to escape and return to the USA via Holland. This was Heinz's last visit to Germany.
  • 1915: Gebhard von Blücher (1865–1931), 4th Prince of Wahlstatt, came to Kissingen in June of the war year 1915 with his English wife Evelyn for a cure. In her diary, published in English in 1920 and in German in 1924, she described a. also the social spa life of the spa town during World War II, when not only the guests from Russia and England stayed away, and the “fatherland atmosphere”.
  • 1915: Heinrich Brunner (1840–1915), Austrian legal historian and university professor, came to Bad Kissingen for a cure to get a cure for jaundice and stomach ailments. But it was already too late: The internationally distinguished scholar died here on August 11, 1915 after a few days.
  • 1916: Remus von Woyrsch (1847–1920), Prussian field marshal and member of the Prussian manor house, stayed as colonel general for a cure at the Kurhaus Aegir.
  • 1916: Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), German writer and psychiatrist cured a stomach ailment for almost four weeks between July and August and came across the material for his historical novel Wallenstein through an advertisement for the Gustav-Adolf Festival .
  • 1918: Bernhard Hoetger (1874–1949), sculptor and painter, writes a letter from the Hotel Fürstenhof to Hermann Bahlsen in Hanover on May 28, 1918 .
  • 1918: Pauline Horson -Brügelmann (1858–1918), Saxon Chamber Singer, married to Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann († 1920 in Bad Kissingen) from the family of the Cromford textile factory , got engaged in Bad Kissingen and was probably here several times in the following years been to the cure. Because in her will she left an amount of 150,000 marks for the maintenance and design of the Bad Kissinger " Ballinghains ", a garden named after the Kissinger bath doctor Franz Anton von Balling . In 1922, a small area with a memorial stone and benches was dedicated to the couple as a thank you on the “Finsterberg”.
  • 1919: Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect and since April 1919 director of the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts in Weimar, founder of the state Bauhaus , stayed in the dietetic spa of the doctor Ernst Marquardsen on during the semester break (July / August) Altenberg to the cure.
  • 1919: James Simon (1851–1932), German entrepreneur and financier, sponsor of the Berlin museums, one of the most important art patrons of his time, stayed at Carl von Dapper's sanatorium for a cure . He came back a few times later, too. On September 17, 1931, he celebrated his last, 80th birthday in the spa town - just eight months before his death.
  • 1920: Friedrich Baron von Falz-Fein (1863–1920), German-Russian landowner and founder of the Askanija-Nowa nature reserve (Ukraine), came to Bad Kissingen for a cure on the recommendation of his doctor from Berlin to cure an attack of weakness. His heart failed during a cab ride to Carl von Dapper-Saalfels' sanatorium. Tradition has it that he died on August 2, 1920 during his stay at the spa from grief over the loss of his “fairy tale land” Askania-Nowa. His body was transferred to Berlin for burial.

From 1921

  • 1921: Karl Roensch (1858–1921), factory owner, died of a heart attack during his cure in Bad Kissingen on June 16.
  • 1927: Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath (1887–1947), second wife of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II , was under medical treatment with Paul Sotier . During later spa stays, she stayed in the Dapper sanatorium.
  • 1927: Ralph Benatzky (1884–1957), Austrian composer, gave a chanson evening in the Kurtheater with his first wife, the Diseuse and Chansonnière Josma Selim (1884–1929) and then stayed for a cure.
  • 1928: Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (1864–1928), German vice admiral and last governor of the German Kiautschou protected area, died on August 25th during his stay in Bad Kissingen.
  • 1931: Michael Nassatisin (1876–1931), wholesale merchant and philanthropist from London, guest at the “ Grandhotel Victoria und Kaiserhof ”, died just one week after his arrival on August 9th at the age of only 54. His body was buried in Bad Kissingen on August 14th, but was soon transferred to London.
  • 1933: Alfred Hugenberg (1865–1951), entrepreneur and politician, took a cure at the beginning of September.
  • 1934: Richard Strauss (1864–1949), composer, came to the spa town for the first time in May with his wife Pauline at the Carl von Dapper sanatorium at Menzelstrasse 21 . At that time he thanked the bathroom commissioner Rudolf Conrath for the beautiful gala concert in the great hall of the Regentenbau on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Strauss came twice a year until 1936. In 1939 and 1940, the couple came again for a cure. It always stayed in the royal spa hotel. During these spa stays, Strauss composed parts of his older works.
  • 1935: José de Legorburu y Domínguez-Matamoros (1882–1935), Spanish major, writer, poet and aviation pioneer, died during his stay in Bad Kissingen.
  • 1936: Hans Pfundtner (1881–1945), State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and authoritative author of the Nuremberg Laws , complained to the Bavarian Prime Minister about Jewish spa guests in Bad Kissingen as a guest in the Kurhaus hotel on August 30th.
  • 1951: Oscar Straus (1870–1954), Austrian operetta composer, came to the spa town directly from New York City .
  • 1954: Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), President of the Federal Republic of Germany, came to the spa town for the first time with his son in April of that year, the second time in May / June 1955. Here he began his “Diary Letters 1955–1963” .
  • 1959: Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988), as the Federal Minister of Defense at the time, came to the Hotel Altenberg for four weeks with his wife Marianne.
  • 1963: Heinrich Lübke (1894–1972), President of the Federal Republic of Germany, came to the spa town ten times. During his spa stay in 1966, he and his wife Wilhelmine Lübke received the Thai royal couple Bhumibol Adulyadej and Sirikit here . During his stay at the health resort in 1964, he met Herbert Wehner (SPD) in Bad Kissingen , where both of them agreed on Lübke's re-election as Federal President on July 1 and spoke in favor of a grand coalition.
  • 1961: Adolf Schoyer (1872–1961), industrialist and Jewish community and association chairman, died during a spa stay in Bad Kissingen.

From 2000

  • around 2010: Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), German historian and author, came regularly from Frankfurt am Main to Bad Kissingen in the last years of his life and lived in a private apartment on Promenadestrasse.

Famous spa guests in the city of Bad Kissingen (no year, selection)

See also

literature

  • Thomas Ahnert, Sigismund von Dobschütz, Birgit Schmalz, Hilla Schütze, Peter Weidisch, Peter Ziegler: Bad Kissingen and its guests in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801-2001, facets of a city's history. (= Festschrift for the anniversary year and volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name / special publication from the Bad Kissingen City Archives). Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , pp. 91-138.
  • Edi Hahn: Kaiser cure in the Grand Hotel. History and fates. Self-published, Bad Kissingen 1996, ISBN 3-925722-12-2 .
  • Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths. Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths. Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen , page 62, Ed .: City of Bad Kissingen, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X .
  2. ↑ Translation: “On Saturday, April 28, 1520, Mr. Dietrich von Thüngen asked for permission to go to the bath in Kissingen. It was allowed to him in the form and as it is customary. ” - Source: Protocol book of the Würzburg Cathedral Chapter . - This entry is the first documentation of Kissingen as a spa.
  3. ^ Verlag Georg Fleischmann, 1595 - German translation: Sabine Greb: Description of the Kissinger Heilquelle , 1595, publisher: Staatliche Kurverwaltung Bad Kissingen et al., Würzburg and Bad Kissingen, 1985.
  4. ^ A b Benedikt Borst: Wrong things about Baroness von Gustedt . In: Main-Post . October 17, 2019, p. 23 ( Paywall [accessed on October 17, 2019] According to Birgit Schmalz, historian in the city archive): "Two people who are mentioned in the [Wikipedia] list of well-known spa guests in Bad Kissingen were never here: Caroline Bonaparte (1782- 1839), the youngest sister of Emperor Napoléon I and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), mother of Emperor Napoléon III. and former Queen of Holland. "
  5. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Diaries , 14 volumes, Leipzig-Zurich-Hamburg 1861-1870.
  6. ↑ [1] From the estate of Varnhagen von Ense. Diaries from KA Varnhagen von Ense . First volume. Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1861, pages 143f. (1839) and pages 188f. (1840)
  7. ↑ [2] Varnhagen's diary entries in 1856.
  8. ↑ Mary Shelley: Streizüge by Germany . Travel reports, pages 82–99, Morio-Verlag, Heidelberg, January 2018
  9. ↑ Robert von Mohl: Bath letters of a German professor , Ed .: Dr. Kerler: Kissingen 60 years ago , Bad Kissingen 1902
  10. ↑ Almost simultaneously in Kissingen in 1847: 30 personalities from princely houses, 86 counts, 496 other nobles and 36 English lords, top statesmen from almost all states of the German Confederation and abroad, important artists and scholars. - Source : Peter Weidisch. Thomas Ahnert: 1200 years Bad Kissingen , page 97.
  11. ↑ There is a need for clarification here: If it is actually the wife of Prince Wilhelm, it must have been Princess Elisabeth zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1841–1926). But according to other sources, he was only supposed to have married her three years later (1866).
  12. ↑ "Baron Renfrew" is one of the numerous official titles of the Prince of Wales .
  13. ↑ In his book "Kaiser-Kur im Grand-Hotel", the local researcher Edi Hahn quotes the Kissinger spa guest list from 1872 with number 4171 as "Prince and Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" . However, he didn't get married until February 4, 1875. So what is the solution to the riddle?
  14. ↑ Werner Eberth : Menzel radically real. Adolph Menzel draws and paints in Bad Kissingen , in: Saale-Zeitung of November 4, 2008, page 16.
  15. ↑ Edi Hahn calls him a prince in his book, but he did not take office until 1890.
  16. ^ Kurliste von Kissingen No. 151 1869 books.google
  17. ^ Theodor Fontane: Works . Volume 6: Volume 6: Ballads Songs Proverbs. Ed .: Helmuth Nürnberger. Hanser Munich, 3rd edition 1995. S. 1169. Peter Ziegler: Prominence on promenade paths - emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , p. 221
  18. ↑ at Helmuth Nürnberger 2001 luise-berlin.de
  19. ↑ Memminger was never an honorary citizen of the spa town, but only received the "honorary letter" from the city of Bad Kissingen from Mayor Max Pollwein .
  20. ↑ Vladimir Nabokov : Memory, speak . German translation: Dieter E. Zimmer , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, April 1999.
  21. ^ English edition, New Directions Publishing Corporation, September 1997, ISBN 0-8112-1366-8 or ISBN 978-0-8112-1366-0
  22. ^ Gerhard Wulz: The lost fairy tale land. Death in Kissingen and a fabulous biography . In: "Saale-Zeitung" from January 5, 2008.
  23. ↑ Peter Ziegler: The Rosenkavalier liked to go to the cure in Bad Kissingen , in: Saale-Zeitung of June 14, 2014