Wildbad (Rothenburg ob der Tauber)

Wildbad Large district town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 48 ″ E
Height :	365–385 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	91541
Area code :	09861
	The arcade hall of the Wildbad an der Tauber

Aerial view of the Wildbad

Wildbad is a district of the large district town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia . The name comes from the large-scale former Wildbad health resort, which is now used as a conference venue by the Protestant regional church of Bavaria .

geography

The former wasteland , today house number 42 on the Taubertalweg, is located south of the hospital district in the old town of Rothenburg in the deeply cut valley of the Tauber on the right bank of the river, between the gypsum mill on the same side and the Schwabenmühle on the opposite. A side branch of the Taubertalweg leads to State Road 1022 or State Road 2268 .

history

In 1356, after an earthquake, a spring rises below the hospital. During the tenure of Rothenburg's mayor Heinrich Toppler , the city built the Wildbad there because this spring was found to be medicinal.

In 1601 the chemist and Rothenburg city physicist Andreas Libavius wrote about the Fons Medikatus , the Rothenburg wild bath spring.

In 1820, the Rothenburg pharmacist Johann Michael Schiller carried out a detailed analysis of the healing water with the result that the healing effect is based on the addition of alkaline sulfur compounds.

At the end of the 19th century, the inventor and inventor of the orthopedic prosthesis, Friedrich Hessing , who owned a very well-known orthopedic sanatorium in Göggingen near Augsburg , had the magnificent building complex, which is almost unchanged today, built in nine years. The design comes from the architect Hessings, the Augsburg resident Jean Keller , who also made the plans for the extensive Göggingen institution building .

On June 1, 1903, the "Wildbadetablissement" and spa hotel, modeled on the English pleasure gardens, opened its business, but it had to be closed for financial reasons in 1917, a year before Hessing's death.

In 1925 the Wildbad was foreclosed and the regional association of Bavarian local health insurance funds acquired the property. During the Second World War , the house was used as a hospital, children's home, Hitler Youth school and US camp. It then served as a camp for displaced people from the Baltic States .

Between 1951 and 1976 the Bavarian riot police rented the Wildbad and converted it into a training center. In 1977 the Society for Transcendental Meditation established the residence of the Age of Enlightenment here . At the end of the year she moved into the unrenovated Wildbad and hosted a first conference at the turn of the year 1977/78.

As a result, the city of Rothenburg made use of its right of first refusal in February 1978. She bought the property for 300,000 DM from the legal successor of the Reich Association of Local Health Insurance Funds and left it to the Diakoniewerk Neuendettelsau for the same price . In 1981, the Wildbad sponsoring association was founded, in which the Protestant regional church, the Neuendettelsau Diakoniewerk and eight West Central Franconian deaneries joined forces to renovate and expand the Wildbad into a conference venue. After a partial expansion, the conference could be started in 1983. The renovation was completed in 1990. As a state church institution, the Wildbad was placed under the direct management of the Munich State Church Office . The sponsoring association was converted into an advisory board.

Population development

year	001837	001840	001871	001885	001900	001925	001950	001961	001970	001987
Residents	8th	8th	3	10	5	31	3	127	4th	^*
Houses	2	2		2	2	1	1	2		^*
source

^* Place is included in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wildbad . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 231-233 ( digitized version ).

Lore Heilmann: The Wildbad Rothenburg in earlier times. (Vol. I text, Vol. II fig.) Rothenburg odT, Verlag des Verein Alt-Rothenburg e. V., 2001.

Web links

Commons : Wildbad - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wildbad Rothenburg
Wildbad in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
Wildbad in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 18, 2019.
Wildbad in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ Wildbad in the Bavaria Atlas
↑ Only inhabited houses are given. In 1840 these were referred to as "houses", in 1837 and from 1871 to 1987 as "residential buildings".
^ Wilhelm Meyer: Division of the administrative districts in the Rezatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria and a list of all localities belonging to them . Brügel'sche Kanzleybuchdruckerey, Ansbach 1837, p. 130 .
↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 23 ( digitized version ).
↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1144 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).
↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1084 ( digitized version ).
↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1148 ( digitized version ).
↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1184 ( digitized version ).
↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB 453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1020 ( digitized version ).
↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB 453660959 , Section II, Sp. 750 ( digitized version ).
^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB 740801384 , p. 171 ( digitized version ).
↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 330 ( digitized version ).

[1] Wildbad in the Bavaria Atlas

[2] Only inhabited houses are given. In 1840 these were referred to as "houses", in 1837 and from 1871 to 1987 as "residential buildings".

[3] Wilhelm Meyer: Division of the administrative districts in the Rezatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria and a list of all localities belonging to them . Brügel'sche Kanzleybuchdruckerey, Ansbach 1837, p. 130 .

[4] Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 23 ( digitized version ).

[5] Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1144 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).

[6] K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1084 ( digitized version ).

[7] K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1148 ( digitized version ).

[8] Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1184 ( digitized version ).

[9] Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB 453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1020 ( digitized version ).

[10] Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB 453660959 , Section II, Sp. 750 ( digitized version ).

[11] Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB 740801384 , p. 171 ( digitized version ).

[12] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 330 ( digitized version ).