Bad Dürrenberg is a

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in the

Saalekreis Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Nords ...

district, in

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

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. It is situated on the river

Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Fränkische Saale, ...

, approx. 8 km southeast of

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese ...

. It is known for its

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, the largest one in Germany.

Geography

The town of Bad Dürrenberg is located on the river

between the cities of

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

and

Weißenfels Weißenfels (; often written in English as Weissenfels) is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, approximately south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. His ...

. In the south of the town, the Ellerbach flows into the right side of the Saale.

Neighboring districts

The neighboring districts are

Leuna Leuna is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, south of Merseburg and Halle, on the river Saale. The town is known for the ''Leunawerke'', at 13 km2 one of the biggest chemical industrial complexes in Germany, where a very wide range of ...

to the north,

Markranstädt Markranstädt () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 11 km southwest of the city of Leipzig and has close to 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Markranstädt is located about south-west of Leipzig ci ...

in ( Leipzig district) to the east,

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(

Burgenlandkreis Burgenlandkreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its area is . History The district was established as Landkreis Burgenland by the merger of the former Burgenlandkreis and Landkreis Weißenfels as part of the reform of 2007. On 16 ...

) to the south and, to the west,

(

Town and hinterland

The following table shows the population of the town itself and those of the municipal divisions (''Ortschaften'') which were formerly independent municipalities.Hauptsatzung
Stadt Bad Dürrenberg, October 2019. Oebles-Schlechtewitz was absorbed into Bad Dürrenberg in 2008, and Nempitz and Tollwitz in 2010.

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Events and festivals

Each year on the last weekend of June the town has a festival held over a period of three days, which is known as ''Brunnenfest'' (Well Celebration).

Population development

Historical population ''(from 1995 as of 31 December)''. Values since 2010 also include neighboring villages which were annexed by the town. ¹ 3 October Bad Duerrenberg Borlachmuseum

Mayors

* Kurt Eckart (SPD), May–June 1945 * Karl Herfurth (KPD), July 1945 – 1946 * Paul Drese (SED), 1946-1947 * Fritz Singer, 1948-1952 * Kurt Boose, from 1951 (deputy) * Gerry Chisel (SED), from 1952 acting / Edmund Jatz * Martha Wessler (SED), 1953-1976 * Liselotte Wehowski (SED), 1976-1986 * Frank Klappach (SED), 1986-1988 * Karin Zeisler (SED), 1988-1990 * Thomas Heilmann (CDU), 1990-2001 * Jürgen Elste (FDP), 2001-2008 * Árpád Nemes (CDU), 2008-2015 * Christoph Schulze (CDU), since 2015

Personality

Sons and daughters of the town

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0222-016, Leipzig, SPD-Parteitag, Ibrahim Böhme

* Ibrahim Böhme (1944–1999), politician * Lars-Broder Keil (born 1963), journalist and author * Andreas Ihle (born 1979), world champion and Olympic champion in canoe racing

Those associated with the town

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of ...

(1772–1801), early Romantics, philosopher and lawyer * Johann Trommsdorff (1770–1837), pharmacist and chemist *

Karl von Fritsch Karl Wilhelm Georg von Fritsch (11 November 1838, in Weimar – 9 January 1906) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He studied forestry at the academy in Eisenach, followed by studies in natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, whe ...

(1838–1906), a paleontologist and geologist, president of the

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* Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist) (1898–1975), political scientist and lawyer * Karin Haftenberger, (born 1948), canoeist, competed in the

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Twin towns – sister cities

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, Germany *

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, France *

Ciechocinek Ciechocinek (Polish pronunciation: ; German language, German (1941-1945): ''Hermannsbad'') is a spa town in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland, located on the Vistula River about east of Aleksandrów Kujawski and south-east of ...

, Poland *

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, Hungary

Gallery

File:Bad Duerrenberg Gradierwerk S.jpg,

Graduation tower A graduation tower (occasionally referred to as a thorn house) is a structure used in the production of salt which removes water from a saline solution by evaporation, increasing its concentration of mineral salts. The tower consists of a wood ...

File:Bad Duerrenberg Kurpark.jpg, Spa gardens File:Bad_Duerrenberg_St_Bonifatius.jpg File:Bad_Duerrenberg_church.jpg

References

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