Bad Waldsee
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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ' N , 9 ° 45' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
| County : | Ravensburg | |
| Height : | 588 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 108.55 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 20,308 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 187 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 88339 | |
| Area code : | 07524 | |
| License plate : | RV, SLG , ÜB , WG | |
| Community key : | 08 4 36 009 | |
| LOCODE : | DE ESPE | |
| City structure: | 6 districts | |
City administration address : |
Hauptstrasse 29 88339 Bad Waldsee |
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| Mayor : | Matthias Henne | |
| Location of the city of Bad Waldsee in the Ravensburg district | ||
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Bad Waldsee (until 1956 Waldsee ) is a Baden-Württemberg town in the Ravensburg district with the ratings mud spa and Kneipp spa . It is also known for its historic old town with many sights and a large pedestrian zone. Bad Waldsee is a medium-sized center in the Bodensee-Oberschwaben region , which, in addition to Bad Waldsee, includes the communities of Aulendorf and Bergatreute and Wolfegg.
geography
location
Bad Waldsee is located in Upper Swabia north of the Altdorf Forest at 584 to 754 m above sea level. NN . The old town extends on an isthmus between two lakes, the Stadtsee (east; 583 m above sea level ), which is fed by the Urbach coming from the south, and the somewhat smaller Schlosssee (west), into which the Pfaffenbach coming from the Stadtsee flows into the river and drained by the Steinach flowing to the west . One of the two source streams of the Danube tributary Riß rises in the northwestern part of the town of Michelwinnaden .
City lake
In addition to the historic old town, the city lake can be seen as a “visiting card” for Bad Waldsee. It is located in the middle of the city and is also used by the municipal outdoor pool. The municipal rowing club uses it as a training water, and there is also a boat rental. The lake was formed around 16,000 years ago during the last ice age , the Würm Ice Age . The lake is owned by the city of Bad Waldsee and is managed by the local fishing association.
Castle lake
The Schlosssee is also in the middle of the city, but is not open to tourists, as there are hardly any public accesses to the lake shore. The lake is owned by the Princely House of Waldburg-Wolfegg .
City structure
- Bad Waldsee itself includes Steinach and the hamlets of Dinnenried, Englerts, Graben, Haslanden, Hifringen, Hopfenweiler, Kohhaus, Mattenhaus, Reichertshaus, Schellenberg, Schlupfen and Steinenberg as well as some farms.
- Reute has been part of the city of Bad Waldsee since 1971. Reute includes the residential areas Durlesbach, Greut, Magenhaus, Obermöllenbronn, Untermöllenbronn, Stadel and Tobel (2400 inhabitants).
- Gaisbeuren with the residential areas Ankenreute, Arisheim, Atzenreute, Dinnenried, Enzisreute, Haldenhof, Haldensäge and Kümmerazhofen (1785 inhabitants). (Since 2014 the municipalities of Reute and Gaisbeuren have been amalgamated under one municipal administration to form Reute-Gaisbeuren. The administrative headquarters remained in Gaisbeuren.)
- Haisterkirch with the residential areas Bäuerle and Heustöckle, the 715 m high Ehrensberg (incorporated in 1977), Hittelkofen, Hittisweiler and Osterhofen (1433 inhabitants).
- Michelwinnaden with the residential areas Michelberg and Lenatweiler (618 inhabitants).
- Mittelurbach with the residential areas Mennisweiler, Neuurbach, Oberurbach, Seeden, Unterurbach, Volkertshaus, Vorderurbach and Wolpertsheim (1347 inhabitants).
Neighboring communities
The following cities and municipalities border the city of Bad Waldsee ( clockwise , starting in the north):
Ingoldingen , Eberhardzell (both districts of Biberach ), Bad Wurzach , Wolfegg , Bergatreute , Baindt , Wolpertswende and Aulendorf (all districts of Ravensburg )
Land use
The following table gives an overview of the percentage of land consumption in the urban area over time.
| Type of use | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | Development 1996–2016 |
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| Housing area | 2.6% | 2.7% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 3.1% | 3.3% | + 0.7% |
| Industry and commercial construction | 1 % | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 1.6% | 1.6% | + 0.6% |
| Leisure, sport, recreation | 1 % | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 1.8% | 1.8% | + 0.8% |
| Traffic areas | 4.1% | 4.1% | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.5% | + 0.4% |
| Agriculture | 59% | 58.1% | 57.2% | 56.9% | 56.7% | 56.5% | −2.5% |
| forestry | 28.3% | 28.3% | 28.4% | 28.4% | 28.4% | 28.4% | + 0.1% |
| Waters | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.9% | + 0.1% |
history
middle Ages
In the 8th century there was probably a first settlement of novels
Waldsee ("Lake of Walchen / Welschen ") was first mentioned in a document in 926 in the so-called Weißenburger Codex (also called Codex Edelini). The document, which reports on the destruction of the Hungarians during their campaign through southern Germany, says: “In Walahsé a royal settlement was destroyed by the pagans. It includes two hubs of arable land, 60 carts of meadow hay, a mill and a church ”.
On May 12, 1181, Emperor Barbarossa founded the Waldsee Monastery .
In 1283 the first city wall was built around the market square, extension in the 13th century to include the monastery suburb, after 1403 the Wurzach suburb was included.
In 1298 the town of Waldsee was granted the Ravensburg town charter, in 1375 the road toll and the right to accept new citizens, in 1379 the freedom of justice and in 1434 the ban on blood.
The rulership of the city was exercised by the Lords of Waldsee , who soon sold the city to the Habsburgs , i.e. to Austria.
1331 sale of town, castle and lordship to Austria.
1352-1375 pledging of the city to the Counts of Hohenberg and von Lupfen.
In 1386 the House of Habsburg pledged the town of Waldsee to the Truchsess Johannes II von Waldburg , which led to uprisings among the citizens. The chieftain prevailed and imposed an annual oath of loyalty to the city.
In 1406, the Waldburger's pledge rule was renewed when the Habsburgs finally pledged the Waldsee along with Mengen , Riedlingen , Munderkingen and Saulgau . Since that time, the compulsory union of these five cities has also been known as the Five Upper Austrian Danube Cities . In 1415 there was the second uprising of the citizens against the rule of the Truchessen, which was suppressed by force of arms. The town hall was built between 1426 and 1428.
see also Outbound Castle Waldsee and Castle Rest Neuwaldsee .
In the early 15th century the Kornhaus and Waaghaus were built.
Modern times up to the 18th century
In 1530, the Anabaptists' attempt to reform the city and abolish secular rule was forcibly ended.
In 1579 the construction of the collegiate church began. In 1680 the city bought itself out from the pledge of the traditional food.
On July 19, 1788, the Augustinian Canons' Monastery was dissolved by a decree by Emperor Joseph II at his own request.
Witch trials
In the area around Waldsee, the witch hunt began very early, as the inquisitor Heinrich Kramer was active in the neighboring town of Ravensburg from 1480 . Kramer was the author of the witch's hammer and, as the inquisitor, one of the pioneers of the witch hunt in the early modern period .
During the witch hunts from 1515 to 1712 in Bad Waldsee at least 59 people were involved in witch trials . 54 accused were burned, one beheaded, one died in prison, one was sentenced to life imprisonment and one was released. A process output is unknown. In 1586 alone 16 women were burned as "witches". Documents about the years (1545–1581; 1605–1640) are missing. The existing sources can be viewed in the city archive in Bad Waldsee.
In 2000, a commemorative plaque was placed in the pillared hall of the Bad Waldsee town hall with the text: “Behind this wall was the torture chamber of the city court, known as a“ block house ”. In the witch trials (1490–1645), too, the accused's confessions were extorted. 54 people fell victim to the witch fire. ”Since 2006, by a resolution of the local council, Sibylle-Schuler-Straße has been commemorating Sibylle Schuler , who was accused of“ witchcraft ”and who was sentenced to death, strangled and then burned in 1604.
In the 19th century to Württemberg
Austrian rule ended when Napoleon reorganized all of Europe through his wars and the associated politics. So Waldsee came to the Kingdom of Württemberg on July 12, 1806 . Already in 1807 Waldsee became the official district raised and got the seat of Württemberg Oberamts Waldsee more validity. In 1869, with the construction of the Herbertingen – Isny railway line , Waldsee was connected to the route network of the Royal Württemberg State Railways .
Emergency money after the First World War
In 1918, because of the First World War, nickel and copper divide coins became scarce. That is why many communities felt compelled to have their own replacement coins minted. The municipal council of the city of Waldsee also discussed the issue of own coins on March 13, 1918. It was decided to issue coins in the sizes 50 pfennig, 10 pfennig and 5 pfennig. The draft of the coins, which came from the senior office secretary Wanner from Waldsee, had the city coat of arms on the obverse and the respective coin value on the reverse. The coins were made by the company KA Lösch from Leimersheim. They could be exchanged at the municipal administration until May 1, 1922.
In 1923, when inflation was peaking, the city was printing its own emergency money in bills. On August 26, 1923, the local council decided to issue notes worth 500,000, 1 million and 2 million marks. Due to the rapid devaluation of the currency , the one million mark note was not issued, although the artwork for the note was already ready. The two million mark note, which was actually printed with the date of issue August 26, 1923, shows on the back a view of the city with a view over the lake. It was later decided to print more notes with values ranging from five million to ten trillion. The reverse of the notes from five million to twenty billion showed the "Iron Man", the Waldburg's head-sess.
In addition to the city, some Waldsee companies received permission to print paper money, including the Oberamtssparkasse, the Gewerbebank, the companies Holzindustrie E. Metzger & Co. and the Waldsee plant of the Upper Rhine steam saw and planing works in Offenburg.
2 million mark note from the city of Waldsee - front
2 million mark note from the city of Waldsee - back
Further course of the 20th century
Waldsee retained the status of a Württemberg town of the Oberamt of the same name from 1806 to 1934, then of the district of the same name from 1934 to 1938. During the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Waldsee came to the Ravensburg district in 1938. The area of the former Oberamt, or since 1934 the Waldsee district, was assigned to the new districts of Biberach and Ravensburg . In spring 1942 Erich Bachem founded Bachem-Werke GmbH in Waldsee together with Milly A. Fiedler. The high-flyer Bachem Ba 349 was built and tested here. Waldsee was part of the French occupation zone from 1945 and thus became part of the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947 , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
After the Second World War and in the course of economic reorientation, the city returned to its tradition of bathing. The first mud bath was opened in 1950 . As a result of the further expansion of the spa system, Waldsee was given the title mud spa as early as 1956 . In 1974 Bad Waldsee was also awarded the title Kneipp health resort .
Incorporations
In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the following, until then independent municipalities were incorporated into Bad Waldsee.
- July 1, 1971: Gaisbeuren
- December 1, 1971: Mittelurbach and Reute
- January 1, 1975: Haisterkirch and Michelwinnaden
All of the above-mentioned communities belonged to the Ravensburg district before the district reform .
Historical coats of arms of the former municipalities
Gaisbeuren
Haisterkirch
Mittelurbach
Michelwinnaden
Tail
21st century
Only since 2014 has Gaisbeuren and Reute merged it into Reute-Gaisbeuren.
politics
Municipal council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the result shown on the left and the following distribution of seats with a turnout of 56.1% (+ 8.6% p):
mayor
In January 2012, Roland Weinschenk was re-elected for a second term. Matthias Henne was elected as his successor on January 26, 2020. In the first ballot, he prevailed against four competitors with 80.8%.
Local council election results
| Eligible voters | voter turnout | Total seats | Party 1 | Result party 1 | Seats party 1 | Party 2 | Result party 2 | Seats party 2 | |
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| Haisterkirch | 1202 (−23) | 66.5% (+ 8.5%) | 11 (± 0) | Independent | 86.1% (+ 2.1%) | 9 (± 0) | BiHg | 13.9% (−2.1%) | 2 (± 0) |
| Reute Gaisbeuren | 3515 (+108) | 59.5% (+9.4) | 13 (−2) | List A | 58.3% (+ 6.9%) | 8 (± 0) | List B | 41.4% (−6.9%) | 5 (−2) |
| Michelwinnaden | 544 (+31) | 65.1% (+ 8.2%) | 8 (± 0) | Village community | 100% (+ 33.6%) | 6 (+2) | |||
| Mittelurbach | 1129 (+16) | 65.6% (+7.9) | 10 (+1) | MUBürgerv | 60.7% (−4.5%) | 6 (± 0) | King L. | 39.3% (+ 4.5%) | 4 (+1) |
badges and flags
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Blazon : "In black a silver bar, accompanied at the front by a rising, left-turning fish, at the back by a fallen grain shovel, and elevated by a six-pointed star" |
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Reasons for the coat of arms: The Waldsee city colors are black and white.
The fish to the left of the coat of arms stands for fishing from the city's lakes (especially the city lake), the star above the coat of arms symbolizes the special Waldsee veneration of Mary, which is also reflected in the Frauenberg chapel ("Our Lady of the Mountain") and the shovel to the right of the coat of arms stands for the flourishing grain trade in earlier years, which brought Waldsee prosperity. The coat of arms probably goes back to the first owners of the city, the Lords of Waldsee , who wear a silver bar in a black field in fields two and three of their quartered coat of arms. |
Town twinning
Bad Waldsee has a town partnership with Bad Elster and with Bâgé-le-Châtel in France .
Culture and sights
Tourist roads, long-distance cycle routes, pilgrimage and hiking trails
Bad Waldsee is located on the Swabian Baths Road and the Upper Swabian Baroque Road , both of which lead past many sights.
In addition, two main hiking trails managed by the Swabian Alb Association lead through the eastern districts of Bad Waldsee as long-distance hiking trails : in Bad Waldsee-Graben, the main hiking trail 4, which is also known as the Main-Danube-Lake Constance trail , crosses the main hiking trail 5, which is known as the Black Forest-Swabian- Alb-Allgäu-Weg is committed.
Then the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route , which was newly laid out in 2009, leads through the city. Bad Waldsee is also on the route of the Jakobsweg from Nuremberg via Ulm to Konstanz , which is also known as the Upper Swabian Jakobsweg in this section .
← Previous location: Winterstettenstadt | Bad Waldsee | Next place: Weingarten directly or with a detour via Bergatreute →
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You can also travel through the city on the Danube-Bodensee cycle path , a long-distance cycle path in southern Germany .
theatre
Bad Waldsee has no permanent theater. However, regular theater events take place in the town hall, the Haus am See and the Catholic parish hall. For example, between the New Year and Carnival in the parish hall, the performances of the amateur theater group of the Kolping Family .
Museums
- Museum in the Kornhaus In 1910 the museum was founded under the name of the Old Age Museum in the Old Theater in the Spitalhof, and in 1972 the move to the former Kornhaus, built in 1492, where the local history museum is housed to this day. The museum offers insights into the history of Bad Waldsee. In addition, there are regularly changing special exhibitions. The four-storey trading and warehouse has a pitched roof and a Gothic stepped gable, the outer walls consist of inhomogeneous mortar masonry around one meter thick. The internal structure is a self-supporting post construction on 10 internal and 14 external posts made of oak. The trading and warehouse was located on the so-called Swiss grain route from Ulm to Lake Constance. At least twice a year, special exhibitions of contemporary artists and themes take place in the newly expanded entrance hall.
- Guild House Oil Mill
- The former oil mill on Pfaffenbach contains a permanent exhibition on the extraction of linseed, poppy seed and rapeseed oil. The building also houses the carnival museum of the Waldsee fools' guild.
- Stadtsee Museum in the city archive
- In the former country school behind the collegiate church is the city lake museum, in which finds from the city lake are exhibited.
- Church Treasure Museum in the Oratory of St. Peter
- In the oratory of the Waldsee collegiate church, cultural exhibits of the church such as monstrances, chalices and reliquaries can be viewed.
- Erwin Hymer Museum of Mobile Travel
- The museum, opened in 2011, shows the history of mobile travel from the perspective of the traveler on its more than 6000 m² exhibition space. Among the over 80 vehicles on display, there are motorhomes from Hymer and other manufacturers, including Airstream caravans, vintage cars and some "creative" self-made vehicles . The architecture is based on 2 caravan windows, one standing and the other lying down. You can look into the building from a great distance through the large glass front and see some of the exhibits.
- Spaetzlemuseum
- Museum about the favorite food of the Swabians. The first and only spaetzle museum in the world is presented on three floors in the historic Vötschenturm. It opened in June 2013.
movie theater
Stadtkino Bad Waldsee eG decided to open the seenema cinema in 2012. The cooperative thus ended the city's 45 cinemaless years. The small cinema has around 50 seats. On the program are artistically valuable and particularly informative films. In addition, the seenema should be a meeting place. Art exhibitions take place in the premises of the former beverage store.
Buildings
- Kornhaus with city museum
- Town hall: The Waldsee town hall was built in 1426 by the then mayor Ulrich Kuderer . The building with its imposing Gothic facade is one of the most beautiful town halls in Upper Swabia. The town hall was built during the Waldburger Pfandherrschaft and its size can be understood as a bourgeois counterpoint to the secular rule that emanated from the castle and the spiritual rule that emanated from the collegiate church.
- Waldsee moated castle
- Collegiate church
- Volkertshauser hamlet chapel
- Wegkapelle St. Leonhard (Michelwinnaden)
- Wurzacher Tor: The Wurzacher Tor was built at the beginning of the 15th century during the term of office of the then mayor Ulrich Kuderer. It was built as part of the expansion of the city wall , which from this point also included the so-called Wurzach suburb. The original town center of Waldsee was walled as early as 1283. Since devastating fires often broke out in the area of the Wurzach Gate, the gate was popularly known as the “fire port cover”. The "harbor cover", which is still in use today, is derived from this. The Wurzacher Tor is the last remaining city gate of Bad Waldsee, Ravensburger Tor and Biberacher Tor were already demolished in 1832 and 1833.
- The Protestant church on the Burgberg was built in 1889 in neo-Gothic style, designed by the Stuttgart architect Theophil Frey . The tower is asymmetrical as in many of the churches he planned. The church was redesigned as early as 1913, the Gothic decoration on the facade was chipped off and the interior walls were painted with plant ornaments. The bright and simple church interior with the juxtaposition of Gothic and Art Nouveau elements also tells of the change in taste in a relatively short time.
Regular events
- Carnival
- Waldsee is a stronghold of the Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet . The Waldsee fool's guild was founded on October 1st, 1935; it emerged directly from the fool's association founded in 1908. The guild belongs to the association of Swabian-Alemannic fools' guilds . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the fools' guild Waldsee took place on 19./20. January 2008 the big fools meeting of the VSAN took place, the biggest festival that was ever held in Waldsee.
- Old town and lake night festival
- Every year on the first weekend of the summer vacation the old town and lake night festival takes place. On Saturday, more than 40 clubs invite you to a cozy get-together, on Sunday morning there is a large flea market in the city center. The highlight is the fireworks with background music on Sunday evening, when over 3,000 colored candles float on the city lake. From Saturday to Monday there is a large fairground on the Bleiche.
- More than 1500 athletes have been running the Waldsee Lauffieber every year since 2003 . In addition to the half marathon (approx. 500 runners at the finish) and 10,000-meter run (approx. 250 runners at the finish), a relay over 4 × 2,000 meters, the old town team run, and various youth and children's runs are offered. A marathon run was also offered until 2015.
- Upper Swabian street music festival
- The Upper Swabian Street Music Festival took place in Bad Waldsee for the fourth time in summer 2009. On Saturday it was pub music night and on Sunday street musicians played all over the old town. World records were set for the Guinness Book of Records at the first two events in 2005 and 2006 .
- Waldsee rowing regatta
- The rowing regatta takes place regularly in autumn on the city lake , organized by the rowing club Waldsee 1900 e. V. Hundreds of athletes from all over Central Europe come to Germany's highest regatta course every year. In 2012 the regatta took place for the 50th time.
- Sebastiane pilgrimage
- Every year on January 20th, the ancient pilgrimage to St. Sebastian takes place. The pilgrims' procession goes from the Bad Waldsee suburb of Haisterkirch to the St. Sebastian forest chapel on the Graben mountain ridge. The current chapel dates from 1892.
- Grabener Höhe time trial
- The Grabener Höhe bike race takes place every year. The length of the route is 10 km with a difference in altitude of 228 m. The course record has been 15:27 minutes since 2010, which corresponds to an average speed of approx. 39.29 km / h and roughly 896 meters in altitude per hour.
societies
- The local group Bad Waldsee of the Swabian Alb Association was awarded the Eichendorff plaque in 2000.
Sports
The largest sports club in Bad Waldsee is the TG Bad Waldsee. The gymnastics community has a wide range of popular sports. With the Princely Golf Club Oberschwaben eV there is a golf club with two 18-hole and one 9-hole golf course.
Leisure and sports facilities
The Waldsee-Therme is a thermal bath and therapy center opened in 1994 . It is fed from the hottest spring in Upper Swabia . The fluoride and sulfur-containing thermal water comes from the depths at just under 65 ° C. The Bad Waldsee outdoor pool offers a swimmer pool, non-swimmer pool, baby pool, slide pool as well as direct access to the city lake and several beach volleyball fields. There is also the Tannenbühl adventure climbing park with nine parcours and the “Stadtsee Aktiv-Weg” with a water treading pool, fitness equipment and a dance bell .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Bad Waldsee Station is a station on the railway line Herbertingen-Isny . There are hourly connections on the Lindau -Aulendorf and Memmingen - (Aulendorf-) Sigmaringen lines . Since July 2010 the 3-Löwen-Takt-Radexpress has also stopped there on selected Sundays and public holidays between May and October on the journey from Aulendorf to Bad Wurzach. The city is with some bus routes u. a. connected with Bad Wurzach , Leutkirch and Ravensburg and belongs to the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund ( bodo ). Bad Waldsee is directly connected to the B 30 .
The next larger airports are in Friedrichshafen and Memmingen . Bad Waldsee itself has a small glider airfield .
Established businesses
The best-known companies in Bad Waldsee include Hymer and the mail order company Walz . Hymer is a manufacturer of motorhomes and caravans. Over 1000 employees are employed in the Bad Waldsee plant. The Baby-Walz company was founded in 1952 by Alfons Walz . She specializes in shipping baby items. There are also numerous medium-sized companies. The third largest employer is the municipal spa with the Maximilianbad , Elisabethenbad and Mayenbad clinics as well as the Waldsee-Therme .
The St. Elisabeth Foundation , a church foundation under private law established in 1999 by the Franciscan Sisters von Reute with 1,600 employees, is located in Bad Waldsee.
Courts, authorities and institutions
Bad Waldsee has a local court that belongs to the regional court district of Ravensburg .
The city is the seat of the nutrition center Bodensee-Oberschwaben (opened 1997), one of four such centers in Baden-Württemberg. This is affiliated with the Ravensburg District Office in its function as the Lower Agricultural Authority.
Educational institutions
Bad Waldsee has a state high school , elementary and technical secondary school, secondary school and special needs school on the Döchtbühl . The free Catholic Eugen Bolz School is a private elementary, technical and secondary school at the same time. The Swabian Farmer's School Bad Waldsee, founded in 1949 and sponsored by the Baden-Württemberg State Farmers' Association, is one of almost fifty German “rural home adult education centers” and offers agricultural, domestic and musical-cultural seminars for farmers and other residents of rural areas.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Rudolf Forcher , Mayor from 1972 to 2004, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
sons and daughters of the town
- Elisabeth Achler (1386–1420), known as Gute Beth , mystic, bearer of stigmata , beatification in 1766
- Georg von Waldburg-Zeil (1488–1531), known as Bauern-Jörg , military leader in the Peasants' War
- Jacob Schenck (around 1508–1554), Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jörg Zürn (around 1583–1635 / 38), sculptor, and other members of the Zürn family of sculptors
- Johann Christoph Bendl (1624–1690), sculptor, son of Jakob Bendl
- Joseph Anton von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1766–1833), first prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee
- Friedrich von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1808–1871), Prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee, registrar in the Kingdom of Württemberg
- Louis Lang (1812-1893), German-American painter
- Ludwig Wahl (1831–1905), Apostolic Vicar of Saxony and Titular Bishop of Cucusus
- Gustav von Mandry (1832–1902), university professor, member of the state parliament
- Constantin Dausch (1841–1908), sculptor
- Carl Friedrich von Schall (1843–1911), State Councilor and Member of Parliament
- Josef Krug-Waldsee (1858–1915), conductor and composer
- Maximilian von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1863–1950), Württemberg registrar
- Franz Ludwig von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1892–1989), fifth prince of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee
- Josef Maier (1900–1985), CDU politician
- Josef Bühler (1904–1948), National Socialist State Secretary, war criminal and participant in the Wannsee Conference
- Anton Josef Huber (1905–1998), economist and politician with the CDU
- Siegfried Schöpfer (1908–2007), meteorologist
- Eugen Maucher (1912–1991), CDU politician, member of the Landtag and Bundestag
- Alfons Walz (1920–2008), entrepreneur, founder of the mail order company Walz (Baby Walz)
- Willibald Sauerländer (1924–2018), art historian and art critic
- Karl Jetter (* 1929), economist and journalist
- Erwin Hymer (1930–2013), entrepreneur, founder of Hymer AG
- Otto Julius Maier (* 1930), publisher (Otto Maier Verlag / Ravensburger AG) and long-time president of the IHK Bodensee-Oberschwaben
- Felicitas Estermann (* 1931), writer
- Karl Feßler (1931 / 32–2010), politician, Lord Mayor of Filderstadt
- Marcell Restle (1932–2016), archaeologist, Byzantinist and university professor
- Rupert Leser (1933–2017), photographer
- Dorothee Hess-Maier (* 1936), publisher, head of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
- Kurt Widmaier (* 1950), politician of the CDU, former district administrator of the district of Ravensburg
- Georg Cornelius Freundorfner (* 1951) is a wood sculptor, organizer of art festivals and an ambassador for peace
- Rudolf Leiprecht (* 1955), social worker and university lecturer
- Irmela Maier (* 1956), artist
- Rosemarie Warth (* 1965), comedian
- Marten Hørger (* 1981), DJ and producer
Other personalities associated with the city
- Jakob Bendl (around 1585–1655 / 1660), sculptor (father of Johann Christoph Bendl ), lived and worked in Waldsee
- Hieronymus Spiegel (1699–1779), organ builder, spent his old age in Waldsee
- Cäcilie Arand (1838–1908), writer, lived in Waldsee
- Bernhard Bauknecht (1900–1985), politician (CDU) and farmers' association functionary, founded the Swabian Farmers School in Bad Waldsee in 1949
- Erich Bachem (1906–1960), engineer and designer, worked for the Hymer company in Bad Waldsee
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler (1928–2011), farmer, politician (CDU), farmer association functionary and manager, co-founder and lecturer at the Swabian Farmer's School in Bad Waldsee
- Ernst Geprägs (1929–2011), farmer, politician (CDU) and farmers' association functionary, co-founder and lecturer at the Swabian Farmers School in Bad Waldsee
- Georg Zundel (1931–2007), physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist engaged in peace politics
Others
Storks in Bad Waldsee
In the past, storks were a natural part of the townscape in Waldsee. In a 17th century vedute, storks are shown on the south gable of the town hall and around 1900 on the granary. Even the city arms are like the stork: black, white, black on a red background (feet). In Michelwinnaden, too, there were storks at the castle and also at the source of the Riss. The Osterhofen stork is still preserved as a stuffed copy in the Haisterkircher school. In pictures from 1901, the walled old town of Waldsee is surrounded by large, almost treeless wet meadows. When the stork census in 1930, Waldsee was a blank spot because the stork was not reported to Stuttgart.
In 1986, after 30 years, storks reappeared, and they chose the community center as their nesting place. They were project storks from Switzerland and Vorarlberg . The male overwintered in Bad Waldsee and was fed in the Riedmühle's mill pond.
Shortly before storks arrived in the Waldsee nest on the brewery chimney in the Steinach suburb, a webcam was installed on the chimney in 2006, which allows a view into the nest. The investment was made possible by the BUND local group Bad Waldsee.
literature
- Michael Barczyk: From four wooden tubs to the largest mud spa in Upper Swabia. Bad Waldsee. In: Wolfgang Niess, Sönke Lorenz (ed.): Cult baths and bath culture in Baden-Württemberg. Markstein-Verlag, Filderstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935129-16-5 .
- Rupert readers , Markus readers, Thomas Fricker: Hi folks, etz isch Fasnet. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-290-8 .
- Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Community Waldsee. In: Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger (Ed.): Description of the Oberamt Waldsee . With a map of the Oberamt, a view of Waldsee and four tables. Cotta et al. a., Stuttgart a. a. 1834 ( Description of the Kingdom of Württemberg 10), full text at Wikisource
- Thomas Fricker, Bernhard Bitterwolf, Michael Barczyk, Frank Bachner, Martin Schmitzer, Carl Butscher, Markus Brändle, Michael Kaiser, Markus Leser: Typically Bad Waldsee. Biberacher publishing house printer ISBN 978-3943391183
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Individual evidence
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- ↑ Augustinian Canons of Waldsee in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- ↑ Carl Haas: The witch trials. A cultural-historical attempt together with documents , Tübingen 1865, here mainly from p. 84 (Haas quoted from the “Urgicht-Register” of the city of Waldsee, copy dated June 28, 1676). Harald Siebenmorgen: Witches and witch persecution in the German south-west , Volume I and II, Ostfildern 1994, Volume I, pp. 150-199, Volume II, pp. 253ff.
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- ↑ City council election 2019 Bad Waldsee. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/region_artikel,-Roland-Weinschenk-darf-in-die-zweite-Amtszeit-_arid,5191603.html
- ↑ 80.8 percent elected Matthias Henne to be Bad Waldsee's mayor. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. January 27, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .
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- ↑ template Result of local council election 2019 Reute-Gaisbeuren. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
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- ↑ template Result of local council election 2019 Mittelurbach. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
- ^ Chronicle Museum - Museum in the Kornhaus Bad Waldsee. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
- ^ Erwin Hymer Museum: Exhibition. Accessed June 9, 2019 (German).
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