Bad Wildungen is a state-run spa and a small town in

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district in

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, Germany. It is located on the

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Geography

Location

Bad Wildungen lies in the eastern foothills of the

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range in the so-called ''Waldeck'' holiday region, 11 km west of Fritzlar, and 35 km southwest of Kassel. The town, which spreads out east of the Homberg, is crossed by the river Wilde, which empties into the Eder at the constituent community of Wega. The constituent communities of Wega and Mandern lie on the Eder, on which also lies the Edersee, a

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lying only about 10 km northwest (in a straight line) of the main town of Bad Wildungen. The river Urff flows through the southwest constituent communities of Hundsdorf, Armsfeld and Bergfreiheit. The nearest large towns are Kassel (about 35 km; northeast),

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(about 60 km; southwest) and

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(about 28 km; northwest).

Neighbouring communities

Bad Wildungen borders in the north on the community of

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(Waldeck-Frankenberg), in the east on the town of Fritzlar, in the southeast on the town of

Bad Zwesten Bad Zwesten is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district of Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Bad Zwesten lies about 8 km southeast of Bad Wildungen on the river Schwalm, which belongs to the Eder watershed. North of the community begin ...

(both in the

Schwalm-Eder-Kreis Schwalm-Eder-Kreis is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Kassel, Werra-Meißner, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Vogelsberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, and Waldeck-Frankenberg. History In 1821 districts were create ...

), in the south on the community of

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, and in the west on the town of

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(both in Waldeck-Frankenberg).

Constituent communities

Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole, the town of Bad Wildungen consists of the centres of Albertshausen, Armsfeld, Bergfreiheit, Braunau, Frebershausen, Hüddingen, Hundsdorf, Mandern, Odershausen, Reinhardshausen and Wega.

History

Bad Wildungen's first documentary mention came about 800 from the Hersfeld Monastery's goods directory under the name "villa Wildungun". This place lay in the Wilde Valley, east of today's main town. About 1200, a castle was built by the

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s, around which ''Alt-Wildungen'' ("High Wildungen") (from lat. altus = high) developed. In 1242, Nieder-Wildungen ("Lower Wildungen"), which had been founded on the hill facing the castle, was granted town rights. From 1263, the castle and the two Wildungen towns were owned by the Counts – later Princes – of Waldeck, who only abdicated after the

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(''see'' Principality of Waldeck). In 1358, the two Wildungen towns were mentioned. In 1906, the town of Nieder-Wildungen was given the new name Bad Wildungen because of its bath. In 1940, Bad Wildungen was given the title of ''"Preußisches Staatsbad"'' ("Prussian State Bath")

Witch trials

In the time when alleged

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es were persecuted, 78 people in Bad Wildungen fell victim to witch trials. At the time, Wildungen had 1200 inhabitants. The persecution came in waves of trials: 1532, 1629 to 1631 and 1650 to 1664. * 1532 First witch trial against Gertraud Muck * 1575 - 1578 Persecution of "witches" * 1629 Onset of a period of unheard-of persecution: 29 victims up to 1632. * 1650 - 1664 a further 38 victims * 1630 Maria Rörig steadfastly withstood

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from September 1630 to May 1631: "Dear God received her in prison, to Him she would remain faithful, she is innocent like Jesus Christ." Count Christian ordered her release. * 1656 Trial against Susanne Weber (Maria Rörig's daughter): "Her husband asks that the trial be sped up owing to the costs."

Amalgamations

The neighbouring communities of Alt-Wildungen, Reitzenhagen and Reinhardshausen were amalgamated in 1940. As part of municipal reform, the same was done in 1971 with Albertshausen, Armsfeld, Bergfreiheit, Braunau, Frebershausen, Hüddingen, Hundsdorf, Mandern, Odershausen and Wega.

Politics

Town council

The town council's 38 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006: The town executive consists of the mayor and ten town councillors. Four of these seats are held by the CDU, three by the SPD and one each by the FDP, the FWG and the Greens.

Mayors

At the mayoral election in 2006, the FDP's Volker Zimmermann was elected Bad Wildungen's new mayor with a 58% share of the vote in a run-off. He took over as mayor from his predecessor Reinhard Grieneisen ( CDU) on 1 September 2006. In 2018 Ralf Gutheil (

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) was elected, as the new mayor of Bad Wildungen. He replaced Volker Zimmermann who held the office since 2006.

Coat of arms

Bad Wildungen's civic

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is heraldically described as: ''Sable an eight-pointed mullet Or.'' Bad Wildungen's earliest known town seal was quite different, dating from 1258 and showing the Count of Thuringia – then the local overlord – astride a steed and kitted out as a

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. The current charge, which is based on the Star of Waldeck, is first known to have appeared in 1262. Some later seals also show a woman in the foot of the shield. The arms appeared with or without the woman over the centuries. In the 18th century, the colours were reversed – the arms were originally ''Or an eight-pointed mullet Sable'' – to

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the town's arms from the arms of Waldec

Town partnerships

Bad Wildungen maintains partnership links with the following: *

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since 1986, * Yichun,

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since 1990.

Culture and sightseeing

Museums

Much that there is to know about the region lies waiting to be discovered in the ''Quellenmuseum'' ("Spa Museum"), the ''Heimatmuseum'' (local history museum), the Museum for Military and Hunting History of the Kassel State Museums (''Museum für Militär und Jagdgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen Kassel'') at Schloss Friedrichstein (a stately home – see below) and the museum at the former mining office and Bertsch visitors' mine. Interested visitors should also have a look at the "Living Museum" in Odershausen, the Lapidarium (mineral display in Schloss Friedrichstein's basement vault) and the ''"Galerie am Kump"'' in Albertshausen.

Theatre

Theatric productions are performed at the ''Kurhaus Bad Wildungen'' (Bad Wildungen Spa House).

Music

Music can be experienced, among other ways, by attending a chamber concert at Schloss Friedrichstein, or going to the Wildungen Music Workshop (''Wildunger Musik-Werkstatt''), a generation-spanning

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. Furthermore, classical,

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, samba and

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concerts or festivals regularly take place at the ''Kurhaus'' and the ''Schloss''.

Other events

In 2006, the third Hessian State Garden Show took place in the town. There is a weekly country market in Bad Wildungen. Furthermore, there is a regularly held jazz festival in June, and mid-July brings ''Kram- und Viehmarkt'' – a fair with household goods and cattle markets. December is the time for a Christmas market. In September, there is either a samba festival or a flower parade.

Buildings

Above Bad Wildungen stands a Baroque stately home, Schloss Friedrichstein, which was planned by Count Josias II in 1660 and completed between 1707 and 1714 by Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich zu Waldeck. In the centre stands a late

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town church from the 14th century. Inside is a winged altarpiece by

Konrad von Soest Conrad von Soest, also ''Konrad'' in modern texts, or in Middle High German ''Conrad van Sost'' or "von Soyst", (born around 1370 in Dortmund; died soon after 1422) was the most significant Westphalian artist and painted in the so-called ''sof ...

(with Germany's oldest depiction of

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). Furthermore, standing in the town centre and along the Brunnenallee are many

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s from the founders' times. The ''Fürstenhof'', an Art Nouveau building like a stately home, once a hotel (the biggest Art Nouveau building in Europe) is today a clinic.

Parks

Europe's biggest spa park

In the late 1990s, the Bad Wildungen spa park was connected by a "green bridge" – not natural but made to seem so – to the Reinhardshausen spa park, making one large park now regarded, at 50 ha, as Europe's biggest spa park.

Natural monuments

In the Helenental foothills are found the Odershausen

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s, which are well worth seeing. Furthermore, in the woods near Odershausen, near the ''Jägersburg'' ("Hunter's Castle"), stand three old

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es. Also, the Bilstein Cliffs near Reizenhagen tempt climbers. Bad Wildungen's local mountain, the 518 m-high Homberg, affords the visitor an outstanding panoramic view. The municipal area's highest mountain, however, is the Wüstegarten (675 m above sea level), located near Bergfreiheit, one of Bad Wildungen's outlying communities. It is disputed as to whether the peak is actually in Bad Wildungen, as the latest survey suggests that it is a few metres outside town limits. ''Das Paradies'' ("The Paradise") near Albertshausen is not simply called this; hikers will also find this unique forest towards Gellershausen and Kleinern to be something of a paradisiacal treasure. The 167 km-long Kellerwaldsteig, awarded with the distinction of one of Germany's three finest

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trails, begins and ends in Bad Wildungen. In the former ''Hutewald'' (forest used for grazing) of Halloh in Albertshausen is a centuries-old beech forest.

Sport

In Bad Wildungen there are two sport clubs, the VFL Bad Wildungen (VFL = ''Verein für Leibesübungen'' – club for bodily exercise) and the TV Friedrichstein (TV = ''Turnverein'' – gymnastic club). Both clubs have established football and handball associations. Bad Wildungen is also the host to the German amateur snooker championship which is the highest ranking amateur snooker event in Germany.

Culinary specialities

One Waldeck speciality is ''Schepperlinge'', a kind of

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pancake, traditionally served in Bad Wildungen with bacon,

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and black

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. As is true more or less throughout northern Hesse, the so-called ''"Ahle Worscht"'' is an ever-popular dish. The name is Hessian dialect for ''alte Wurst'' – "old

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Economy and infrastructure

The town's main field of economic activity is the spa and

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business. Bad Wildungen is, however, slowly developing into an educational centre. The ''Holzfachschule'', the clinics' nursing schools, the Bringmann Academy, the ''Bildungszentrum Handel und Dienstleistungen e. V.'' (Handel Education Centre and Services) and the ''Berufsakademie Nordhessen'' (North Hesse Professional Academy) support this endeavour.

Transport

Through the municipal area run the Federal Highways (''Bundesstraßen'') B 485 and B 253, which afford a connection to the

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A 49. Bad Wildungen can be reached by regional

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services ( NVV) from Kassel and Wabern, terminating at Bad Wildungen station. The city also maintains a

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service, the BKW (Bad Wildunger Kraftwagenverkehrs- und Wasserversorgungsgesellschaft mbH), which is also responsible for the municipal water supply.

Media

The regional daily

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s are the ''Waldeckische Landeszeitung'' and the ''Waldeckische Allgemeine'', a local edition of the ''Hessisch-Niedersächsische-Allgemeine''.

Spa

Wildungen is a therapeutic spa with springs that bring forth water containing

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and carbonic acid ("sparkling" or "carbonated"). The times when visitors would "partake of the waters" are somewhat bygone now. More at the fore of medical rehabilitation nowadays are

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treatment, internal medicine,

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and

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. Institutions for gerontological care (retirement homes, nursing homes) are also important services. The yearly number of overnight stays in Bad Wildungen is roughly 1.4 million (2002), making Bad Wildungen second only to

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among Hessian towns and cities with the most overnight stays.

Education

In Bad Wildungen, alongside several

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s are a school for students with learning difficulties (Mathias-Bauer-Schule), a

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(Ense-Schule) and a Gymnasium (Gustav-Stresemann-Gymnasium). Vocational education is done through the Hans-Viessmann-Schule. The ''Berufsakademie Bad Wildungen'' offers the choice of a dual course of study alternating between theoretical and practical phases. Among the subjects offered are

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and tourism.

Firefighting

Bad Wildungen maintains a voluntary fire department, as do all of its villages, except for Albertshausen. Hüddingen and Frebershausen maintain a joint fire department.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

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(but possibly born in Wabern), engraver * Ludwig Wolff (1892-1975), German scholar *

Gerhard Schröder (television executive) Gerhard Karl Theodor Hans Schröder (3 March 1921 – 23 January 2012) was a German radio and television executive. Schröder was born in Bad Wildungen and studied law and political economics in Marburg. After his state examination he wor ...

(1921-2012), broadcasting director * Wolfgang Roth (born 1939), psychologist * Renate Blume (born 1944 in Bad Wildungen), German actress *

Pantha du Prince Hendrik Weber (born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany),Carolin Schäfer (born 1991), German heptathlete

Other persons connected with the town

Philipp Nicolai Philipp Nicolai (10 August 1556 – 26 October 1608) was a German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer. He is most widely recognized as a hymnodist. Biography Philipp Nicolai was born at Mengeringhausen in Waldeck, Hesse, Germany where his ...

(born 1556 in

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Mengeringhausen Mengeringhausen is a village and a municipal district of Bad Arolsen in Waldeck-Frankenberg, in Hesse, Germany. Its population is estimated to be 3,800 people. The was first mentioned as the town 'Stadt Mengeringhausen' in 1234. The town was in p ...

, died 26 October 1608 in

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), songwriter and Lutheran court chaplain in Alt-Wildungen. * Master of the Netz Altar Triptych, (14th century), Gothic painter *

Christoph Scheibler Christoph Scheibler (born 6 December 1589 in Armsfeld, died 10 November 1653 in Dortmund) was a German philosopher, classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics tradit ...

, philosopher and theologian *

Emil Jannings Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss born German actor, popular in the 1920s in Hollywood. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in '' The La ...

(born July 23, 1884, in Rorschach; † 2 January 1950 in Strobl), actor ("The Blue Angel") *

Hans-Jürgen von Arnim Hans-Jürgen Bernard Theodor von Arnim (; 4 April 1889 – 1 September 1962) was a German general in the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several armies. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Early life ...

, (1889-1962) general and last

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' commander died in Bad Wildungen. * Gerhard Franz (born February 26, 1902, in Bobeck, Thuringia; † December 24, 1975 in Bad Wildungen), Major General The ''Wildunger Kurmuseum'' lists the town's many doctors, some of whom have become world-famous.

Twin towns

Bad Wildungen is twinned with the English town of

in the county of

References

External links

Website of the town of Bad Wildungen
English version
Wildungen altar painting

"Galerie am Kump"
* {{Authority control Spa towns in Germany Waldeck-Frankenberg Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont