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Coat of arms of the community of Schlangenbad
Snake bath
Map of Germany, position of the community Schlangenbad highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Rheingau-Taunus district
Height : 320 m above sea level NHN
Area : 36.55 km 2
Residents: 6461 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 177 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65388
Primaries : 06129,
06124 (Niedergladbach)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : RÜD, SWA
Community key : 06 4 39 014
LOCODE : DE 4SL
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rheingauer Strasse 23
65388 Schlangenbad
Website : www.schlangenbad.de
Mayor : Marco Eyring ( CDU )
Location of the community in Schlangenbad in the Rheingau-Taunus district
Lorch (Rheingau) Rüdesheim am Rhein Geisenheim Oestrich-Winkel Kiedrich Eltville am Rhein Walluf Schlangenbad Bad Schwalbach Heidenrod Aarbergen Hohenstein (Untertaunus) Taunusstein Hünstetten Idstein Niedernhausen Waldems Rheinland-Pfalz Wiesbaden Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg Main-Taunus-Kreis Hochtaunuskreis Kreis Groß-Geraumap
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Schlangenbad is a community and a spa on Bäderstraße Taunus in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse and borders the state capital Wiesbaden to the west . The place is considered the oldest recognized Hessian spa. The name Schlangenbad can be traced back to the Aesculapian snakes found in the municipality as a result of the Mediterranean climate .

With 131 percent, the community of Schlangenbad has a purchasing power index that is well above the national average (100 percent), making after Niedernhausen the community with the highest per capita income in the Rheingau-Taunus district.

geography

Location and community structure

The district of Schlangenbad and thus the core of the community is located 320  m above sea level as a health resort . NN in a protected valley slope in the densely wooded Hohe Taunus at the confluence of the Warm Bach and the Walluf . Schlangenbad is 12 km from Wiesbaden , 7 km from Eltville am Rhein and 7 km from Bad Schwalbach .

The elongated community area extends over 13 km with the districts of Georgenborn in the east, lined up like a chain, via the core village of Schlangenbad, then on via Wambach and Bärstadt to the highest district and climatic health resort of Hausen vor der Höhe (483 meters), from there into into the Gladbachtal via Obergladbach and Niedergladbach to the Hinterlandswald and Wispertal in the west.

The highest point of the municipality is on the western slope of the Hohe Wurzel , near the Taunus Wunderland , at around 544 meters. The lowest point in the Walluftal near the Schlangenbad forester's house and the Neu-Mühle is 210 meters.

Neighboring communities

Schlangenbad borders the city of Bad Schwalbach in the north, the city of Taunusstein and the independent city of Wiesbaden in the east, the city of Eltville am Rhein and the municipality of Kiedrich in the south and the city of Oestrich-Winkel in the west .

Climate and snakes

In Schlangenbad there is a weak, gentle climate with strong nighttime cooling. The temperate climate is comparable to the Mediterranean climate. Because of this and because of the warming of the Walluf by thermal springs, even after the general cooling of the climate in Germany, a population of the Aesculapian snake could be preserved , which today only occurs in Mediterranean or special warmer areas of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany (in 3 places), at warmer times but was common throughout Central Europe. The place name Schlangenbad is based on this occurrence of the Aesculapian snake, the coat of arms shows the snake with a crown.

Several times a year guided tours to the Aesculapian snake are offered by various institutions. The five underpasses of the Bäderstraße / bypass were equipped with so-called crossing aids as part of compensatory measures by the road construction administration in cooperation with the Darmstadt regional council and the Naturschutzhaus association.

history

Schlangenbad was created in 1694 as a bath above the mouth of the Warm Bach , and in 1818 it was elevated to the status of a community. Earlier names of the place are: Warme Mühlen (1482), Amtmannsbad (1687), Karlsbad (1693), Schlangenbad (1700) and Schlangen Bad (1708). Liselotte von der Pfalz mentioned "Schlangenbadt" several times, first in 1699 in a letter to her half-sister Amelise. The meeting of the Prime Ministers of the three western zones of occupation took place in Schlangenbad on June 15, 1949 , in which the electoral law for the first German Bundestag and the ordinance on election day (August 14, 1949) were passed.

Incorporations

The neighboring town of Georgenborn, which was incorporated into the city of Wiesbaden in 1928, changed its municipal affiliation on April 1, 1939 and was henceforth integrated as a district into the community of Schlangenbad in the Untertaunuskreis . In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Wambach was incorporated into the municipality of Schlangenbad on a voluntary basis with effect from December 31, 1971. On July 1, 1972, the municipalities of Bärstadt, Hausen vor der Höhe, Niedergladbach and Obergladbach followed suit.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
     
A total of 25 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 33.4 8th 37.3 11 48.3 15th 38.0 12
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 15.9 4th 21.2 7th 12.4 4th 9.6 3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 18.4 5 19.5 6th 26.1 8th 35.6 11
BfB Citizens for Citizens 24.5 6th 16.6 5 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 7.8 2 5.4 2 8.9 3 12.5 4th
PER PRO snake bath - - - - 4.2 1 4.2 1
total 100.0 25th 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 55.9 57.4 57.7 59.0

mayor

On October 28, 2018, Marco Eyring (CDU) was elected mayor with 56.0 percent of the vote. The turnout was 70.9 percent. He took office on March 1, 2019.

Former mayor
  • 2007 to 2019: Michael Schlepper (FDP)
  • 1999 to 2006 (voted out): Detlev Sieber (SPD)
  • 1994 to 1998: Klaus-Peter Willsch (CDU)

Partner municipality

The community of Schlangenbad maintains a partnership with Craponne in France .

Municipal coat of arms

Description : In green over three silver (white) wavy bars a crowned, red-tongued golden S-shaped snake.

The occurrence of the Aesculapian snake that characterizes the place has found its way into the municipal coat of arms via the trademark of the Hessian state spa and was already shown in the Hessian town coat of arms book of 1956.

Buildings

Christ Church, drawing by Ludwig Hofmann

The Protestant Christ Church, built in 1907, is a major work by the architect Ludwig Hofmann . The plans for the Parkhotel Schlangenbad came from Eugen Rückgauer .

Economy and Infrastructure

Leisure and sports facilities

  • Thermal outdoor pool with kelo sauna
  • Aeskulap thermal baths
  • Tennis courts Schlangenbad
  • Boules area in the Schlangenbad spa gardens
  • Heinz Grein Sports Hall Georgenborn
  • Bärstadt sports hall
  • Hausen football pitch

Hiking trails

  • The Rheinsteig , a hiking trail leading through the Walluftal near Schlangenbad from Biebrich Castle near Wiesbaden via the Loreley , the enemy brothers ( Liebenstein and Sterrenberg ) and Lahneck Castle to Bonn.
  • Hiking trail to Rauenthal (approx. 45 min) with a wonderful view over the Rhine Valley.
  • Circular hiking trails at the "Förster-Bitter-Eiche" car park near Hausen vd H. near the hinterland forest .
  • 'Snake path' with information boards on the biology, endangerment and protective measures of the largest domestic snake, the non-poisonous Aesculapian snake.
  • The Rheingau Gebück hiking trail , which leads from Niederwalluf to Lorch , runs through Schlangenbad

Health resort

Serpent bath around 1900
Snake Bath 2009
Spa gardens
Historic café hall in Schlangenbad (near Wiesbaden)

The Schlangenbad thermal springs were discovered in the middle of the 17th century. After Francis Head published Bubbles from the Brunnen in 1830 , the Taunus baths became popular among the British. During the boom after the Nassau acquisitions and the publication of the "Bubbles", Schlangenbad and Schwalbach had no disadvantage in terms of location compared to Ems and Wiesbaden, until around 1845 traveling by stagecoach was made obsolete by the faster, more convenient and cheaper railroad. While a total of 1564 spa guests came in 1838, the number of English spa guests fell to around 600 by 1865. The number of French guests was high for a while after the French Empress Eugénie cured here several times. German aristocratic circles valued Schlangenbad, as you could take cures here relatively undisturbed. There has been an outdoor thermal pool since 1931; Statutory health insurance patients were first admitted to the cure in 1950. The historic café hall from the 19th century has been preserved as a characteristic architecture of German spas . Today a total of nine springs have been developed, which arise with temperatures between 21 and 32 degrees Celsius on the southern slope of the Bärstädter Kopf. It treats rheumatic and other inflammatory diseases.

Gambling: For the first time in 1709 a concession was granted to the Italian Pietro Varena on the Hessian side. The house he built was passed on to Martin Cetto from Mainz in 1721. Later in the 18th century numerous smaller venues were operated, which made the small town more interesting for spa guests. In the early 1830s, the sub-tenant for Schwalbach and Schlangenbad was Friedrich Kühnemann, a starch manufacturer and “court chimney sweep” from Kassel. The license (for all casinos in the Duchy of Nassau) was held from 1834 by Antoine Chabert, who was ousted from Baden-Baden . Since then, private expansion of the pool has been promoted. Chabert renounced his rights in 1845 so that the casino could be closed.

Educational institutions

  • Bärstadt primary school

See also

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Lived or still live in Schlangenbad

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Complete list of the rated locations in 2017 from the Kassel Regional Council, accessed in May 2019.
  3. ↑ Largest purchasing power in Niedernhausen and Schlangenbad. New purchasing power indicators in the district of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce. (No longer available online.) Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry , archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihk-wiesbaden.de
  4. ↑ Radka Musilová, Vít Zavadil, Petr Kotlík: Isolated populations of Zamenis longissimus (Reptilia: Squamata) above the northern limit of the continuous range in Europe: origin and conservation status. In: Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. , 71, 2007, pp. 197-208.
  5. ^ WL Holland : Letters of the Duchess… Volume I. 1676–1706, p. 151 online in the Internet archive
  6. ^ Election law for the first Bundestag and the first Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Germany from June 15, 1949 (BGBl. I p. 21)
  7. ↑ Ordinance on Election Day v. June 15, 1949 (BGBl. I p. 24)
  8. ^ Hesse municipal area reform; Amalgamation and integration of municipalities of December 29, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 3 , p. 89 ff ., Item 94, Para. 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  9. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: Mergers and integration of municipalities from June 28, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851, no. 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,4 MB ]).
  10. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 377 and 378 .
  11. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  12. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  13. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  14. ↑ Direct elections in Schlangenbad. Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in January 2020 .
  15. ↑ 2020 yearbook of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, page 238: Schlangenbad. New mayor after twelve years. Marco Eyring new boss at the Schlangenbad town hall.
  16. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine of January 12, 2007: Former mayor wants to return to office
  17. ^ Head, Fr .; Bubbles from the brunnen of Nassau ( 1866 edition )
  18. ^ Lohner, Henry; Only those who are dead no longer take any risks . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2012; ISBN 978-3-8448-0977-0 ; Pp. 85-7

literature

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