Bad Saulgau

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Bad Saulgau
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 30'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Sigmaringen
Height : 587 m above sea level NHN
Area : 97.32 km 2
Residents: 17,509 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 180 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 88348
Area code : 07581
License plate : SIG
Community key : 08 4 37 100
LOCODE : DE BSG
City structure: 14 districts

City administration address : 		Oberamteistraße 11
88348 Bad Saulgau
Website : www.bad-saulgau.de
Mayoress : Doris Schröter
Location of the city of Bad Saulgau in the district of Sigmaringen
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The resort town of Bad Saulgau (until 2000 Saulgau ) located in the center of Upper Swabia and is the largest city in the district of Sigmaringen . From May 23, 1949 to December 31, 1972, the city ​​was the district town of what was then the Saulgau district . Since 1990, the city is called City with mineral spring and Kurbetrieb , since 2000 the predicate bathroom .

geography

location

Bad Saulgau is located north of the wooded ridge of Wagenhart and a few kilometers west-northwest of the Atzenberger Höhe . It is located between the Danube and Lake Constance on the Schwarzach tributary to the Danube . The European main watershed , which separates the catchment area from the Rhine and Danube, runs through the district of Lampertsweiler . The water of south-flowing waters flows into the Rhine, that of the north-facing waters into the Danube. The city is located on the Schwäbische Bäderstraße , the Mühlenstraße Oberschwaben and the Oberschwäbische Barockstraße .

Neighboring communities

Bad Saulgau borders on the following communities (clockwise, starting in the north):

Spatial planning

Bad Saulgau forms a middle center of the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia region . The central area with around 45,000 people includes the southeastern communities of the Sigmaringen district and the northwestern ones of the Ravensburg district, specifically the cities and communities (in alphabetical order) Altshausen , Bad Saulgau, Boms, Ebenweiler , Ebersbach-Musbach, Eichstegen, Fleischwangen , Guggenhausen , Herbertingen, Hoßkirch, Königseggwald , Ostrach, Riedhausen and Unterwaldhausen .

City structure

Bad Saulgau consists of the core town (with Bernhausen, Engenweiler, Schwarzach and Wilfertsweiler) and the 13 suburbs Bierstetten (with Steinbronnen), Bolstern (with Heratskirch and Wagenhausen), Bondorf, Braunenweiler (with Figels, Krumbach, Obereggatsweiler, Untereggatsweiler and Ziegelhof), Friedberg , Fulgenstadt, Großtissen (with Kleintissen and Nonnenweiler), Haid (with Bogenweiler and Sießen ), Hochberg (with Luditsweiler), Lampertsweiler (with vineyards), Moosheim, Renhardsweiler and Wolfartsweiler.

coat of arms District Residents surface
Bad Saulgau Bad Saulgau (city center) 11,673 5690 ha
Bierstetten Bierstetten 591 615 ha
Bolsters Bolsters 417 1206 ha
Bondorf Bondorf 333 278 ha
Braunenweiler Braunenweiler 553 1005 ha
Friedberg Friedberg 406 541 ha
Fulgenstadt Fulgenstadt 672 673 ha
Big tits Big tits 374 669 ha
Haid Haid 874 1320 ha
Hochberg Hochberg 579 664 ha
Lampertsweiler Lampertsweiler 302 252 ha
No coat of arms available Moosheim 337 443 ha
Renhardsweiler Renhardsweiler 273 170 ha
No coat of arms available Wolfartsweiler 275 351 ha

In the census on May 9, 2011, Bad Saulgau had 17,040 inhabitants.

history

Early history

The first written mention of Sulaga comes from the year 819. In the local dialect the place is still called Sulga today . The name goes back to the Old High German word sul , which means "swampy place, pool of water". The meaning is still in the name wallowing for puddles of water, in which z. B. rolling wild boars. The name of the city therefore refers to its location in the lowlands of the Schwarzachtal - so it has nothing to do with columns or even a Celtic spring goddess, as is often wrongly claimed.

During the time of the tribal duchies , Saulgau was part of the Duchy of Swabia . In 1239 Saulgau was built by Emperor Frederick II. The town charter granted by King Rudolf I in 1288, the market law . 1299 Saulgau fell to the House of Habsburg and was front Austrian official town in the Austrian Danube lands.

During the witch hunts , 46 witch trials were carried out in the city of Saulgau from 1518 to 1684 , with 29 executions and two exiles. The outcome of other proceedings is unknown. The youngest victim, Maria Eichel, was only 15 years old when she was executed on March 16, 1674. The two witch trials against Anna Persauter in 1666 and 1672, which ended with torture and her beheading, became particularly well known .

Württemberg time

In the course of the reorganization of Europe by Napoleon Bonaparte , Saulgau came to the Kingdom of Württemberg, established in 1806, with the Peace of Pressburg . Saulgau became the seat of the Oberamt of the same name . In 1869, with the construction of the Herbertingen – Isny ​​railway, it was connected to the route network of the Royal Württemberg State Railways .

On June 27, 1935, an earthquake shook the city. 6,250 buildings were partially badly damaged. The damage amounted to 0.75 million Reichsmarks.

In 1934 the Saulgau District Office was renamed the Saulgau District. In 1938 the Saulgau and Riedlingen districts were opened in the newly established Saulgau district .

During the Second World War , Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH maintained a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp on the south-eastern edge of the town in the immediate vicinity of the Saulgau train station next to the production site of Josef Bautz AG between 14 August 1943 and 22 April 1945 . In the Saulgau subcamp , individual parts of the ballistic liquid missile unit 4 (propaganda name Vergeltungswaffe 2 , V2 for short ) were produced. Up to 400 concentration camp prisoners had to do forced labor in the camp, of which 43 were killed. At the memorial for soldiers in the municipal cemetery , two plaques commemorate 35 victims of the two world wars. At the former site of the satellite camp, a memorial inaugurated in 2005 commemorates the camp and the victims. Today there is a supermarket on the site of the barracks itself.

post war period

After the Second World War, the city of Saulgau fell into the French occupation zone in 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.

The district town of Saulgau became part of the district of Sigmaringen as part of the district reform in 1973 , the largest city of which it is today. On January 1, 1975, the previously independent communities of Bierstetten, Bolstern, Bondorf, Braunenweiler, Friedberg, Fulgenstadt, Großtissen, Haid, Hochberg, Lampertsweiler, Moosheim, Renhardsweiler and Wolfartsweiler were incorporated into Saulgau.

religion

The population of Bad Saulgau is predominantly of the Roman Catholic denomination . There are also members of the Evangelical Church in Germany , a Free Christian Congregation , the Eyup Sultan Mosque with prayer rooms for men and women and the Fatih Camii.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg on May 26, 2019 led to the following result in Bad Saulgau with a turnout of 58.7% (+ 8.6% p):

Party / list Share of votes +/-% p Seats +/-
CDU 36.6% - 4.7 12 ± 0
SPD 19.0% - 3.7 6th ± 0
Green 13.6% + 7.2 4th + 2
FWG 30.8% + 1.2 10 + 2

Due to the false choice of part of town, there was a high number of compensation mandates in the 2019 local elections. Instead of the size of 24 members stipulated in the main statute, the municipal council therefore has 32 members, 4 more than in the previous election period.

mayor

On December 16, 2007, Doris Schröter from Bad Saulgau was elected mayor in the second ballot with an absolute majority of 53.2 percent of the votes against the incumbent Johannes Häfele. Schröter, who was sworn in on February 1, 2008, is the first woman in this position in the Sigmaringen district since it was founded in 1973. She was re-elected in 2015 with 77.7 percent of the vote.

  • 1945–1947: Karl Rösch (provisional)
  • 1947–1949: August Reichert
  • 1949–1967: Josef Drescher
  • 1967-2000: Günter Strigl
  • 2000–2008: Johannes Häfele
  • since 2008: Doris Schröter

coat of arms

Bad Saulgau coat of arms

The coat of arms of Bad Saulgau shows in silver on a green three-mountain a blue armored and blue-tongued red lion, which stands up on a black column rising from the lower edge.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Bad Saulgau is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road , the German Half-timbered Road and the Swabian Baths Road .

Art and museums

  • The old monastery Bad Saulgau is a cultural center inaugurated on January 23rd and 24th, 2010, which unites the three cultural institutions municipal gallery “Die Fähre” , the city ​​library and the music school under one roof. The building dates from 1665, it was built by Franciscans and secularized in 1810 . The building was then used as a hospital and later as the St. Antonius retirement and nursing home . The city found its further use to be too expensive, so it decided to build a new old people's and nursing home. The listed building became vacant, the city library needed new space - so the subsequent use as a new cultural center was decided and fundamentally renovated and modernized in 2008/09 for 2.4 million euros. A special feature is the glass roofing of the former monastery garden, which can be used all year round together with the cloister. With the municipal gallery Die Fähre (including the “Art in Oberschwaben” collection), the city library and the music school, the old monastery now combines three cultural institutions that were housed together in the old “ferry” until 1996. The “Art in Upper Swabia since 1900” collection is located next to the Die Fähre gallery on the ground floor . The city library is on the first floor, the city music school on the second.
  • Municipal gallery “Die Fähre”: Founded in 1947 on the initiative of the French district governor Coup de Fréjac as the “Center Culturel”, the “Fähre” soon developed into one of the first exhibition addresses in Upper Swabia. With Pierre Bonnard , Paul Sérusier and Jan Verkade , the " Nabis " could be seen here for the first time since the Second World War in Germany . With Emil Nolde , Paul Klee and Otto Dix she also showed important representatives of classical modernism early on and later opened up to concrete painting . In addition, the “ferry” has always remained a forum for regional art. The ferry was closed on July 25, 2009. In 2009, renovations were carried out in August / September, and classrooms were set up there for the “Erich Kästner School” and for a kindergarten group.
  • Galerie am Markt : The permanent collection of art in Upper Swabia established in 1986 since 1900 offers a representative cross-section of lively and independent art between the Danube and Lake Constance in the 20th century. It shows important innovators in religious art ( Gebhard Fugel , Karl Caspar , Albert Burkart , Wilhelm Geyer ) as well as influential representatives of classical modernism from the Southwest ( Gottfried Graf , Hans Purrmann , HAP Grieshaber , Otto Dix and many others). For the second floor in the “Haus am Markt”, where the collection was housed, there is still no conclusive usage concept.
  • The municipal youth music school including school management and administration has been located in the new rooms of the old monastery since January 11, 2010 . The school is officially recognized according to § 4 of the Youth Education Act and is a member of the Association of German Music Schools (VdM).
  • The Bad Saulgau City Museum was set up in 1998 in a barn built in 1586 on five levels. It shows in detail the 500-year Habsburg history of Saulgau as one of the “five Danube cities ” in Upper Austria, as well as its long brewing tradition and the lively Upper Swabian popular piety and other local traditions and customs. This is documented, among other things, with a magnificent palm collection that illuminates the tradition of palm carrying , as well as with exhibits from the Saulgau carnival. The brewery department focuses on the two-device brewhouse of the Adler brewery in Saulgau-Moosheim with a mash tun and brewing pan from the 19th century as well as beer storage, beer cooling and beer transport. A “mini-cinema” honors the Saulgau cinema pioneer and Oscar winner Willi Burth . In addition, the museum illustrates the development of the city into today's spa and thermal bath city, including a true-to-scale representation of a thermal water drilling.

music

  • The St. Johannes choirboys have shaped the musical image of the city and the church since 1960 . The “Bad Saulgau Men's Choir” was founded in 1978, and in 1987 a girls 'choir was added with the girls ' choir.
  • The large, nationally known Klais organ in the parish church of St. Johannes with its 48 registers was built in 1980 by the Klais company (Bonn). Organists from all over the world give concerts there as part of the Internationaler Saulgau Organ Autumn .
  • The municipal youth music school was founded in 1969.
  • The Bad Saulgau Jazz Club, which has existed since 1977 , regularly organizes concerts. Jazz bands from Bad Saulgau are z. B. the Schwaaz Vere's Jazzgang , the Jazzmatics , Unit 5 and the Big Band Saulgau .

Sacred buildings

Sießen Monastery

The Sießen Monastery is a Dominican monastery founded in 1260 . It was built in 1519 and all monastery buildings were renovated between 1716 and 1722 and reshaped in the Baroque style. In the course of secularization , the monastery was dissolved. The buildings have been used as a monastery by the Franciscan nuns since 1860 . In the “Hummel-Saal” works by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel are exhibited, whose pictures serve as templates for the world-famous Hummel figures, for example the hikers , the gooseies and the accordion cub . Guided tours through the collection give an insight into the work of the devout artist.

Monastery church in Sießen

St. Mark's Monastery Church

The St. Markus monastery church , built in 1725, shows late Baroque frescoes by the brothers Dominikus and Johann Baptist Zimmermann as well as early Rococo stucco work, carvings and paintings by Zehender.

City Church of St. John Baptist

City Church of St. John Baptist
  • The town church of St. Johannes Baptist is a high Gothic pillar basilica and shows characteristics of the Romanesque and Gothic. It is centrally located on the paved historic market square. The initially Romanesque church from 1170 was extended between 1390 and 1402 in the Gothic style.
    Sheet mask St. John the Baptist
    As part of an interior restoration in 1985, the late Gothic character was combined with modern furnishings. The picture “Flagellation of Christ” by Otto Dix belongs to the equipment . The gold-plated sphere below the cock on the church tower is hollow, but not empty. It contains a roll of documents with historical evidence that is updated every time the tower is renovated. This memorable act also took place in 2008: Architect Ludwig Boll wrote a 29-page report on the renovation on the copper roll of documents - as a supplement to the documents from 1975.

Other sacred buildings

  • The Wendelinus Chapel is located on the Sießen footpath, here a section of the Via Beuronensis .
  • The Kreuz- or Swedish Chapel was built around 1450 and was a medieval pilgrimage site. The furnishings include a Romanesque grand cross (also called Staufer Christ, made around 1170) and the colored woodcuts of the Stations of the Cross by HAP Grieshaber.
  • In the Liebfrauenkirche , which was renovated between April 2000 and May 2001 , there was a fire on June 12, 2009 (property damage caused around 50,000 euros).
  • The parish church of the Birth of Mary in the Hochberg district was consecrated in 1347 and redesigned in Baroque style in 1719. It has high and side altars and a uniform Rococo decoration. A special feature is the bas-relief "Fisherman's Sermon of St. Anthony of Padua".
  • The St. Blaise Chapel with an Ottonian choir and altarpiece by Caspar Fuchs is located in the Schwarzach district .
  • The pilgrimage church of St. Georg in the Untereggatsweiler district is a new building by Michael Mohr with a baroque interior and ceiling frescoes.
  • The baroque parish church in the Friedberg district was inaugurated on May 18, 1733 after three years of construction by the auxiliary bishop of the Constance diocese, Franz Johann Anton von und zu Sirgenstein . The church was built by the famous builder of the Teutonic Order , Johann Caspar Bagnato . The pastor Johann Conrad Fürst from Herbertingen placed the order for a new building because the old church had become dilapidated. For at least 250 years, the Pietà on the high altar and one of the two images of grace, namely that of the Sorrowful Mother of God dressed in black and framed with a blue cloth border, have been a destination for pilgrims. Pope Benedict XIV awarded the parish church a letter of indulgence on April 18, 1748; that was the formal beginning of the pilgrimage. The Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route , which opened on September 21, 2008, commemorates this 250-year-old tradition in the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Friedberg .
  • The St. Michaels Chapel in the Heratskirch district is a medieval building that was baroque in the 17th century.

Secular buildings

Historic buildings in the old town

  • The Oberamtshof , the large building complex that now houses the town hall at the Oberamteihof, was a Franciscan convent until 1782, which had developed from a beguinage founded around 1390 . The entire system was created in three construction phases. In 1782 this monastery, like many others, was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II . The city bought the building and set up the town hall there. In 1853 it was sold to the regional administration, as Saulgau became an upper administrative town in 1806 after the transition to the Kingdom of Württemberg. After the district reform in 1973, the building was repurchased by the Sigmaringen district.
  • The historic half-timbered house Ecklädele , which was built around 1581, stands on the market square . Also on the market square is the Alemannic half-timbered house Haus am Markt from around 1400, which was restored from 1978–1981. Most of the original framework could be preserved. The council chamber is now on the first floor, the gallery on the market on the second floor .
  • Opposite the town hall is the "Sießener Haus", in which the Sießen monastery began. It is the oldest documented town house in Saulgau. In 1251 the first nunnery took over the previously patrician property. From this house six Dominican nuns moved to Sießen in 1260. The monastery rented the house for a long time, from 1759 to 1781 the prominent painter Johann Georg Mesmer lived there .
  • The Buchauer Amtshaus is located in Pfarrstrasse . Located directly on the city wall, it has always had a privileged position. The house probably dates back to the time before the city was founded; it was rebuilt between 1408 and 1468 and received its present shape. The noticeably high archway on the north side and the mighty corner cuboids on the west side indicate the official function of the building since ancient times. Today various clubs are housed there. The name reminds us that Saulgau was built almost entirely on a property belonging to the Buchau Abbey.
  • The former Gasthaus zum Raben is also a historic half-timbered house.
  • The so-called Katzentürmle is the only remaining tower of the old city fortifications. It used to serve as a prison (a kind of day prison) and stands on the remains of the old city wall. The prison for dangerous evildoers and witches was in a gate tower elsewhere. The city ​​hospital used to stand on the site of today's Spitaltor inn , next to it the north-east city gate of the city at that time.

Statues and fountains in the old town

  • The life-size bronze statue of Empress Maria-Theresia with a cubic stone base is a copy of an important baroque work of art by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783). The work of art is reminiscent of Saulgau's 500-year history when the city belonged to Austria from 1299 to 1806.
  • Bad Saulgau has several fountains, on the one hand there is the so-called fool's fountain . The tube fountain on the market square bears the Saulgau coat of arms, the upright red lion. The Luegebrunnen in Hauptstrasse is surrounded by a group of men consisting of four bronze figures: "Three who talk to one" is how the artist Ernst-Reinhart Böhlig describes his work from 1986. That the truth does not always have to come out can be easily recognized; hence the name Luege- (lies) -brunnen.

Other structures

  • The Schlossberg (675 meters) is located southeast of Bad Saulgau, not far from the Hochberg district. A moat reveals that a castle once stood here.
  • To the east of the Bondorf district on the Schelmberg (645 meters) you will find a Celtic square hill.
  • The (Bad) Saulgauer Stadthalle was opened in 1959.
  • Kinzelmannturm , 25 meter high observation tower built in 2016 on the Schillerhöhe west of the city center.

  • Half-timbered house in Bad Saulgau

  • Half-timbered house in Bad Saulgau

  • Oberamteihof, now town hall

  • Ecklädele on the market square

  • Town hall, Sießener Haus on the right

  • Buchauer Amtshaus

  • Bronze statue of the Empress Maria Theresa

  • Lying fountain

Natural monuments

  • In 1977 the warmest and richest sulphurous thermal spring in all of Baden-Württemberg (1.5 million liters per day) was drilled in Saulgau. After a temporary arrangement, the Sonnenhof-Therme Bad Saulgau was opened in 1984 with a thermal bath, sauna area, relaxation, vitality and wellness center and spa garden. As early as 1987, the thermal bath had more than a million bathers over the year. There are also steam baths, a brine steam bath and a flow channel. Bad Saulgau was the first thermal baths in Upper Swabia and also gave the city the title "Bad". In February 2011, the thermal bath recorded its ten millionth visitor.
  • The Schwarzachtal in the north-west is also known as the “Siebenmühlental”: The Wolfenmühle, Eselsmühle, Neumühle, Schaulesmühle, Franzenmühle, Lindenmühle and Dotschenmühle were once located there. With the exception of the Dotschenmühle, which was demolished in the early 1980s, all buildings are still standing and are used as living spaces. In the "Wassermühle Franzenmühle", which dates back to the 15th century, a Francis turbine was installed in 1896 , which today still produces electrical energy with a coupled generator .
  • About three kilometers southwest of the city center between Wagenhausen and Sießen, in the midst of a landscape protection area , the Wagenhauser Weiher , which was created in the 19th century as part of a pond of the Sießen monastery , is used as a bathing lake in summer.
  • The former quarry by the wood mill is kept open as a designated natural monument.
  • The cross-community nature and landscape protection area Booser-Musbacher Ried was designated in 1991 and since 2001 also FFH area according to the European fauna, flora, habitat and bird protection guidelines. It is located between the municipality of Ebersbach-Musbach and the Bad Saulgau towns of Hochberg and Lampertsweiler and covers a total of around 343 hectares (96.5 hectares of nature reserve, 246.5 hectares of landscape protection area). The protected area is a raised bog area shaped by the Riss and Würme Ice Age, which was largely pelted until the 1960s. Wasenstechen to obtain peat stings as heating material was an important industry here. The glacier from the Würme Ice Age made its way through the Rhine Valley to Lampertsweiler, where it deposited the rock mass it had pushed in front of it as terminal moraine. The state road 285, which leads past Lampertsweiler in the direction of Boos, leads right through the former glacier gate, which let the glacier melt water flow away. Numerous plants and animals that are threatened with extinction have a home here. The NSG is accessible to tourists with five circular routes.

Monuments

A memorial in Krumbach commemorates 23 people who died in World War I and 39 who died in World War II.

There are many small monuments in the area of ​​the city of Bad Saulgau, including:

  • In Hochberg on the field path to the forest, diagonally across from house number 101, two Swedish crosses: a stone cross measuring 60:70:25 centimeters made of limestone and a stone cross measuring 75:93:22 centimeters made of limestone.
  • In Braunenweiler there was a stone cross on the road to Untereggatsweiler until about 1975.
  • There was a stone cross in Haid that disappeared after 1930.

Soil monuments

Viereckschanze Bondorf

A Celtic square hill is located in a wooded area in the Bondorf district . It is dated to the Latène period and is one of the best preserved structures in Upper Swabia .

At Untereggatsweiler, opposite the Burgstockhof, there is a wooded hill surrounded by a moat. The castle of the Lords of Brunsberg stood here in the Middle Ages. In 1282 a "her Hiltbrand von Brunsperch knight" is called. In 1428 Michael Humbis sold the “Burgstall and Burghof zu Braunsberg” to the Schussenried monastery . At the beginning of the 19th century, the outdoor facilities were leveled.

Burgstock near Untereggatsweiler

Regular events

Bachtle Festival

The Bächtle Festival, which has been documented in Saulgau since the 16th century (named after its origins in the children's carnival on January 2nd, Bächtelin's Day ) has been celebrated as a school and local festival since the 19th century. The main attractions of the festival, which is celebrated on a long weekend about two weeks before the summer holidays, are the big pageant on Monday with around 3,000 participants, several musical and dance performances, student demonstrations at the "Musical Evening", student competitions, a historic farmers' and craft market as well as the beer tent and a wheat beer garden and a wine tent.

Carnival

"Dorausschreier" of the Doraus guild at a fool's meeting in 2006
Fool's well

Bad Saulgau is also a stronghold of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival . Its driving force is the Dorauszunft Saulgau e. V. 1355 (member of VSAN ), her fool's call , omnipresent during the carnival days, is "Doraus, detnaus - bei d'r alta Lenda naus". A specialty of the Saulgauer Fasnet is the "Dorausschrie" (Dorausschrei), a begging custom that, according to local tradition, dates back to the 13th century, with which the townspeople requested food from the rural population in times of need. The fool figure "Dorausschreier" begs for gifts with a bottomless basket attached to a long pole. Other fool figures are the witches called "Riedhutzel" , the "Blumennärrle", the elegantly dressed demons "Furzteufel", the "Spitzmäule", the "Zennenmacher" borrowed from the Bächtlefest tradition and the "Büttel" appearing as a group in Bad Saulgau.

Since the 1980s, numerous other fool's clubs have formed in Saulgau - as in the entire area where the carnival is spread. In some cases, such as the Bolstern Narrenverein founded in 1993 with its "Gypsy group", which has been documented since 1910, older carnival customs are continued, but in most cases new figures and events are devised with reference to historical or legendary traditions (in Bolstern the "Wagenhart-Teufel ").

These newer clubs include

  • the fool's association Zenka-Rälle Moosheim , founded in 1985, fool's call: "Zenka - Rälle", figures: witch "Zenka-Räll" and forest spirit "Mösle-Schratt"
  • the fool's association Rote Nadel're Braunenweiler , founded in 1989, fool's call: "Ruit's de - Näher're", figures: "Rote Nahe're" and "Hirtenbua"
  • the fool's association Hochberg , founded in 1989, fool's call: "Hei - Schuck", fool figures "Moor-Morchel" and "Egelsee-Hexe"
  • the fire-hexene Saulgau , founded in 1993, Narrenruf "Horrido - 's burning jo scho" fools in "Fire Witch" and "witches guards"
  • the leisure and fool's association Haid-Bogenweiler-Sießen , founded in 1993, fool's call: "Haidrio - siehschd me no", characters "Haidrio" and "Night woman Lilith"
  • the Krähbach-Fools Fulgenstadt , founded in 1995, fool's call: "O Schreck, o Schreck - d'r Kräha-Schreck", characters: "Krähe" and "Krähenschreck"
  • the fool's guild Friedberg Burgstallknechte , founded in 1996, fool's call: "Throw it - Hai rah", fool's figure: "Burgstallknecht"
  • the traditional and fool's association Bierstetten , fools call: “Isch dia Häx it uf'm Fonka, duat se en d'r Fasnet lompa!”.

Other Events

Other annual events in Bad Saulgau are the "Happy Family Day". The event was first organized in 2000 and has since become “Upper Swabia's largest environmental, health and adventure day”. Furthermore, there is always a large flea market in the spring and autumn, each with around 450 dealers in the city center, and the Christmas village in December.

In summer 2012 Bad Saulgau was, after Vienna and Tehran, the venue for the physics world championship - the 25th IYPT .

Sports

Soccer

Bad Saulgau has several football clubs. The men's team of FV Bad Saulgau 04 plays in the district league, the women's team in the regional league. The Bad Saulgauer FC plays in the district league B. There is also the SC Türkiyemspor Bad Saulgau 1992 e. V. and other football clubs in the surrounding towns such as FV Fulgenstadt, SV Bolstern, SV Renhardsweiler, SV Braunenweiler and SV Hochberg.

volleyball

The first team of TSV 1848 Bad Saulgau eV, volleyball department is currently playing - after several years in the first and second Bundesliga - in the Oberliga Süd.

Handball

The handball department eV in TSV 1848 Bad Saulgau eV has about 350 members.

The men of the handball department eV in TSV 1848 Bad Saulgau eV will play in the Württembergliga Süd, the fifth highest German division, in the 2016/17 season. In the 1990s, the team also played in the regional league for a long time.

In the 2015/16 season, the first men's team managed the "double", winning the district cup and the championship in the national league.

tennis

The TC Bad Saulgau, founded in 1932 as "Eislauf- und Tennisverein Saulgau eV", currently plays in the association league. In Bad Saulgau, the ITF Bad Saulgau is an international tennis tournament.

golf

The Bad Saulgau eV Golf Club is located in Bad Saulgau-Wilfertsweiler. The club has an 18-hole course with a water hazard and several biotopes.

billiards

The first team of the PBC Bad Saulgau, which was founded in 1991, rose to the pool regional league in 2012 . At the end of the 2012/13 season, however, the direct relegation to the league followed. The club currently takes part in association games with five teams. The multiple Baden-Württemberg national champion Steffen Gross , who has already won several medals at German championships , also belongs to the club.

Sports halls

The city of Bad Saulgau has three sports halls that are also used for school sports:

  • Stadthalle - is not only used for sporting events, but also for events such as B. the musical evening of the Bächtle Festival
  • ABC hall - has a weight room, sports such as B. Judo
  • Sports hall in Kronried - the newest hall in Bad Saulgau, in which the home games of the volleyball department and handball department take place.

Culinary specialties

At the Gombiga Donnschtig ( Weiberfastnacht ) the traditional “pig-tail meal” takes place every year. In the restaurants that evening boiled pigtails are offered, which are eaten with bread.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bad Saulgau is on the federal highway 32 and the Herbertingen – Isny ​​railway line . The Public transport is by bus from the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau performed (NALDO).

The Saulgau Airfield (EDTU) is located northeast of Bad Saulgau . The special landing site is operated by the Bad Saulgau Aviation Group and can be used by aircraft up to a maximum take-off weight of 2,000 kg . On the weekends, glider pilots and parachutists keep things busy.

From north to south, the Swabian-Alb-Oberschwaben-Weg runs through the village as main hiking trail 7 . This long-distance hiking trail leads from the Remstal to Lake Constance and is looked after by the Swabian Alb Association.

Tourism and spa business

Tourism and spa operations are important pillars of the city. According to the State Statistical Office, the number of overnight stays in Bad Saulgau rose from 228,947 in 2008 to 253,051 in 2009. According to city statistics, overnight stays in clinics, which rose from 168,078 in 2008 to 195,141 in 2009, accounted for a large part of this result increased. Bad Saulgau accounts for 45.4 percent of the statistically recorded overnight stays in the Sigmaringen district.

Established businesses

  • Claas Saulgau GmbH (formerly Bautz ); Manufacturer of forage harvesting machines
  • Knoll Maschinenbau , manufacturer of conveying and filter systems as well as pumps
  • Platz-Haus GmbH; Manufacturer of prefabricated houses , after the second bankruptcy in January 2009 owned by the Bavarian Fuchs & Huber Group since March 2009, to which the prefabricated house builder FischerHaus has belonged since 2006 .
  • The headquarters of both Raiffeisenbank Bad Saulgau eG (five branches) and Volksbank Bad Saulgau eG (22 branches), founded in 1869, are located in Bad Saulgau .

Court, authorities and institutions

Is the spot Amtsgericht Bad Saulgau that the District Court of Ravensburg and the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart belongs. It is also responsible for the city of Mengen and the municipalities of Scheer , Herbertingen , Ostrach and Hohentengen .

The city is the seat of the Catholic deanery Saulgau of the diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart . The Protestant parish belongs to the church district of Biberach and includes parts of the parishes Bad Saulgau and Herbertingen and, in the district of Ravensburg, Ebersbach-Musbach .

Healthcare

  • The Bad Saulgau district hospital , which belongs to the Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen GmbH , is assigned to the 1st level of care ( basic care hospital ). At the beginning of the 1980s it was given a new functional building, after which the old building was completely renovated.
  • Psychosomatic clinic at Schöne Moos in Bad Saulgau (also clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy)
  • Rehabilitation Clinic Saulgau , a specialist clinic for orthopedics and trauma surgery that is part of the Waldburg-Zeil Clinics .
  • Retirement and nursing home St. Antonius and Haus St. Paul

education

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Georg Konrad Kaspar Neidlein (1816–1874), Stadtschultheiß
  • Andreas Johann Mack (1825–1899), chief magistrate and district judge
  • Adolf Walter (1829–1870), member of the state parliament for the Saulgau office (honorary citizen conferred in 1869)
  • Joseph Müller (1845–1924), Oberkirchenrat Monsignore, city pastor and dean
  • Josef Bautz (1874–1909), manufacturer of harvesting machines, founder of Josef Bautz AG
  • Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher (1877–1960), senior director of studies, professor, honorary senator of the University of Tübingen and the author of a standard work on the etymology of German family names (honorary citizenship granted in 1950)
  • Karl Gelder (1895–1986), elementary school rector, councilor, deputy district administrator
  • Walter Knoll (1928–2012), entrepreneur (honorary citizen granted 2003)
  • Günter Strigl (* 1934), mayor

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked locally

  • Hans Eisele (1876–1957), journalist, diplomat and writer
  • Maria Ferschl (1895–1982), writer and hymn poet, lived in Saulgau from 1962
  • Maria Innocentia Hummel (1909–1946), religious sister, born in Massing / Niederbayern, lived in the Sießen monastery from 1931 , her children's pictures are the model for Hummel figures (permanent exhibition of her works in the Sießen monastery)
  • Sister Superior Severa, b. Philomena Frank (* 1914), winner of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit since 1982
  • Wolfgang Schneiderhan (* 1946), former Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (2002–2009)
  • Waltraud Marschall (* 1946), music teacher at the Bad Saulgau youth music school and director of the Bad Saulgau girls' choir, since 2012 winner of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • Michael Boenke (* 1958), author, teacher at the vocational school center in Bad Saulgau
  • Daniel Unger (* 1978), Triathlon World Champion 2007, lives in the Braunenweiler district
  • Mario Gómez (* 1985), national soccer player, former player of the FV Bad Saulgau

literature

  • Hans Willbold: City of Saulgau - A small guide. A guide through the city of Saulgau and its history . ed. from the city of Saulgau, Gebr. Edel, Saulgau July 1998
  • 1947-1997. 50 years of the "ferry" Saulgau. Positions . Exhibition cat. Municipal gallery "The Ferry" Saulgau 1997
  • various authors parish church St. Markus Siessen The new high altar . HrsG Pfarramt St. Markus Druck August Sandmeyer and son Bad Buchau 1988

Web links

Commons : Bad Saulgau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Bad Saulgau  - travel guide
Wikisource: Bad Saulgau in the description of the Saulgau Oberamts from 1829  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e Around the Sießen Monastery . Pp. 37-39. In: Wanderbar ... the most beautiful routes. Experience the Sigmaringen district . Sigmaringen district office, Schönebeck printing company, Meßkirch 2004
  3. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c From the Kreuzkapelle to the European watershed . P. 40 f. In: Wanderbar ... the most beautiful routes. Experience the Sigmaringen district . Sigmaringen district office, Schönebeck printing company, Meßkirch 2004
  5. ^ Names of the victims of the witch trials / witch persecution in Bad Saulgau (PDF; 27 kB), accessed on May 9, 2016.
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  21. ↑ Birgit Kölgen: Old monastery Bad Saulgau. The ferry has reached new banks . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 23, 2010
  22. ↑ Gallery “Fähre”, music school and library are moving . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 8, 2010
  23. ↑ Isabell Michelberger: “Ferry” no longer on course . In: Südkurier of July 31, 2009
  24. ↑ Rolled history slumbers on the tower . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from November 19, 2008
  25. ↑ Information board in the chapel: " History of the Wendelinus Chapel "
  26. ↑ Arson in Liebfrauen? 50,000 euros in property damage . In: Südkurier from June 13, 2009
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  29. ↑ Katy Cuko: Competition of the wellness temple . An overview of the thermal baths' offers . In: Südkurier from November 6, 2010
  30. ↑ Leave everyday life behind . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 14
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  38. ↑ possibly from Roman times. Its head was damaged and it sank deep. It disappeared around 1975 during road construction. Braunenweiler / OT from Bad Saulgau in the private location database Suehnekreuz.de
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  41. ↑ Upper Swabia attractions
  42. ^ The Burgstock near Untereggatsweiler. In: Private homepage: www.burgstock-untereggatsweiler.de. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  43. ↑ "Happy Family Day" remains Environment Day . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of May 27, 2010
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  46. ↑ Not only storks like to reside in Bad Saulgau . In: Südkurier of May 27, 2010
  47. ↑ takeover. Prefabricated house builder space gets investor . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from March 6, 2009
  48. ^ Kurt Loescher: 140 years Volksbank Bad Saulgau. The bank celebrates its anniversary with around 500 guests in the city forum in Bad Saulgau. 80 kindergartens were rewarded with checks. In: Südkurier of October 10, 2009
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