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Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in
Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
, Germany. It is a
spa town A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits. Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath in 1668. He ...
, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world with buildings on it.Brückenhäuser, Alte Nahebrücke, Neustadt , Bad Kreuznach
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www.romantic-germany.info
(in English). Retrieved 14 June 2018
The town is located in the Nahe River wine region, renowned both nationally and internationally for its wines, especially from the
Riesling Riesling (, ; ) is a white grape variety that originated in the Rhine region. Riesling is an aromatic grape variety displaying flowery, almost perfumed, aromas as well as high acidity. It is used to make dry, semi-sweet, sweet, and sparkling wh ...
,
Silvaner Sylvaner or Silvaner is a variety of white wine grape grown primarily in Alsace and Germany, where its official name is Grüner Silvaner. While the Alsatian versions have primarily been considered simpler wines, it was included among the vari ...
and Müller-Thurgau grape varieties. Bad Kreuznach does not lie within any ''
Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhinelan ...
'', even though it is the seat of the Bad Kreuznach (Verbandsgemeinde). The town is the seat of several courts, as well as federal and state authorities. Bad Kreuznach is also officially a ''große kreisangehörige Stadt'' ("large town belonging to a district"), meaning that it does not have the district-level powers that ''kreisfreie Städte'' ("district-free towns/cities") enjoy. It is, nonetheless, the district seat, and also the seat of the state chamber of commerce for Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classed as a middle centre with some functions of an upper centre, making it the administrative, cultural and economic hub of a region with more than 150,000 inhabitants.


Geography


Location

Bad Kreuznach lies between the Hunsrück,
Rhenish Hesse Rhenish Hesse or Rhine HesseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 542. . (german: Rheinhessen) is a region and a former government district () in the German state of Rhineland- ...
and the
North Palatine Uplands The North Palatine Uplands (german: Nordpfälzer Bergland), sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands (''Pfälzer Bergland''), is a low mountain range and landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palat ...
, some
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south-southwest of
Bingen am Rhein Bingen am Rhein () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the ''Mäuseturm'', k ...
. It lies at the mouth of the Ellerbach, where it empties into the lower Nahe.


Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Bad Kreuznach's neighbours are the municipalities of
Bretzenheim Bretzenheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlonsheim ...
,
Langenlonsheim Langenlonsheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlon ...
, Gensingen, Welgesheim, Zotzenheim,
Sprendlingen Sprendlingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Sprendlingen lies in Rhenish H ...
,
Badenheim Badenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-G ...
(these last five lying in the neighbouring
Mainz-Bingen Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad ...
district),
Biebelsheim Biebelsheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kreu ...
,
Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Pfaffen-Schwabenheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Ba ...
,
Volxheim Volxheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in ...
,
Hackenheim Hackenheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kreuzna ...
,
Frei-Laubersheim Frei-Laubersheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kr ...
,
Altenbamberg Altenbamberg is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kreuzn ...
, Traisen,
Hüffelsheim Hüffelsheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim ...
, Rüdesheim an der Nahe, Roxheim, Hargesheim and
Guldental Guldental is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlonsheim-S ...
.


Constituent communities

Bad Kreuznach's outlying ''Ortsbezirke'' or '' Stadtteile'' are Bosenheim, Ippesheim, Planig, Winzenheim and Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg.


Climate

Yearly
precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. ...
in Bad Kreuznach amounts to 517 mm, which is very low, falling into the lowest third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 5% of the German Weather Service's
weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include tempera ...
s are even lower figures recorded. The driest month is January. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.8 times what it is in January. Precipitation varies only slightly. At only 7% of the weather stations are lower seasonal swings recorded.


History


Antiquity

As early as the 5th century BC, there is conclusive evidence that there was a Celtic settlement within what are now Bad Kreuznach's town limits. About 58 BC, the area became part of the
Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...
and a
Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
vicus In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (plural ) designated a village within a rural area () or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement. During the Republican era, the four of the city of Rome were subdivided into . In the 1st century BC, Augustus ...
came into being here, named, according to legend, after a Celt called Cruciniac, who transferred a part of his land to the Romans for them to build a supply station between
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
(
Mogontiacum Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Main ...
) and
Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...
(
Augusta Treverorum Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, whose history dates to the Roman Empire, is often claimed to be the oldest city in Germany. Traditionally it was known in English by its French name of Treves. Prehistory The first traces of human settlement in ...
). Kreuznach lay on the Roman road that led from
Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...
(Divodurum), by way of the Saar crossing near Dillingen-Pachten (
Contiomagus Contiomagus was a Gallo-Roman vicus in the Roman province of Gallia Belgica. The location today is the site of the district of Pachten in the municipality of Dillingen, Saarland, Dillingen, Saarland. Origin Contiomagus was founded during the colon ...
) and the Vicus Wareswald, near
Tholey Tholey () is a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately west of Sankt Wendel, and north of Saarbrücken. History Local history The first traces of settlement in the area of today's Thol ...
to
Bingen am Rhein Bingen am Rhein () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the ''Mäuseturm'', k ...
(Bingium). About AD 250, an enormous (measuring 81 × 71 m), luxurious palace, unique to the lands north of the
Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...
, was built, in the style of a
peristyle In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a peristyle (; from Greek ) is a continuous porch formed by a row of columns surrounding the perimeter of a building or a courtyard. Tetrastoön ( grc, τετράστῳον or τετράστοον, lit=f ...
villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...
. It contained 50 rooms on the ground floor alone.
Spolia ''Spolia'' (Latin: 'spoils') is repurposed building stone for new construction or decorative sculpture reused in new monuments. It is the result of an ancient and widespread practice whereby stone that has been quarried, cut and used in a built ...
found near the ''Heidenmauer'' ("Heathen Wall") have led to the conclusion that there were a
temple A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...
to either Mercury or both Mercury and
Maia Maia (; Ancient Greek: Μαῖα; also spelled Maie, ; la, Maia), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king of Olympus. Family Maia is the daugh ...
and a
Gallo-Roman Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture, language, morals and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context ...
provincial
theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
. According to an inscription and tile plates that were found in Bad Kreuznach, a
vexillatio A ''vexillatio'' (plural ''vexillationes'') was a detachment of a Roman legion formed as a temporary task force created by the Roman army of the Principate. It was named from the standard carried by legionary detachments, the ''vexillum'' (plural ...
of the
Legio XXII Primigenia Legio XXII Primigenia ("Fortune's Twenty-Second Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army dedicated to the goddess Fortuna Primigenia. Founded in AD 39 by the emperor Caligula for use in his campaigns in Germania, the XXII ''Primigenia' ...
was stationed there. In the course of measures to shore up the Imperial border against the Germanic Alemannic tribes who kept making incursions across the
limes Limes may refer to: * the plural form of lime (disambiguation) Lime commonly refers to: * Lime (fruit), a green citrus fruit * Lime (material), inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide * Lime (color), a ...
into the Empire, an auxiliary castrum was built in 370 under
Emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...
Valentinian I Valentinian I ( la, Valentinianus; 32117 November 375), sometimes called Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. Upon becoming emperor, he made his brother Valens his co-emperor, giving him rule of the eastern provinces. Val ...
.


Middle Ages

After Rome's downfall, Kreuznach became in the year 500 a royal estate and an
imperial village The Imperial Villages (''Reichsdörfer'', singular ''Reichsdorf'') were the smallest component entities of the Holy Roman Empire. They possessed imperial immediacy, having no lord but the Emperor, but were not estates. They were unencircled and di ...
in the newly growing
Frankish Empire Francia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks ( la, Regnum Francorum), Frankish Kingdom, Frankland or Frankish Empire ( la, Imperium Francorum), was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Franks du ...
. Then, the town's first church was built within the old castrum's walls, which was at first consecrated to Saint Martin, but later to
Saint Kilian Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian (or alternatively ga, Cillín; la, Kilianus), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (Franconia is nowadays the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours in the latter h ...
, and in 1590, it was torn down. According to an 822 document from
Louis the Pious Louis the Pious (german: Ludwig der Fromme; french: Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aqui ...
, who was invoking an earlier document from
Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first ...
, about 741, Saint Martin's Church in Kreuznach was supposedly donated to the
Bishopric of Würzburg In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
by his forebear Carloman. According to this indirect note, Kreuznach once again had a documentary mention in the ''
Annales regni Francorum The ''Royal Frankish Annals'' (Latin: ''Annales regni Francorum''), also called the ''Annales Laurissenses maiores'' ('Greater Lorsch Annals'), are a series of annals composed in Latin in the Carolingian Francia, recording year-by-year the state ...
'' as Royal ''Pfalz'' (an imperial palace), where Louis the Pious stayed in 819 and 839. Kreuznach was mentioned in documents by Louis the Pious (in 823 as ''villa Cruciniacus'' and in 825 and 839, as ''Cruciniacum castrum'' or ''Cruciniacum palatium regium''),
Louis the German Louis the German (c. 806/810 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany and Louis II of East Francia, was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 843 to 876 AD. Grandson of emperor Charlemagne and the third son of Louis the P ...
(in 845 as ''villa Cruzinacha'' and in 868 as ''villa Cruciniacum''), Charles III, "the Fat" (in 882 as ''C ucinachum'', ''Crutcinacha'', ''Crucenachum''), Arnulf of Carinthia (in 889), Henry the Fowler (in 923), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (in 962 as ''Cruciniacus'') and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (in 1179 as ''Cruczennach''). On the other hand, the ''Crucinaha'' in Emperor Otto III's documents from 1000 (which granted the rights to hold a yearly market and to strike coins) is today thought to refer to Christnach, an outlying centre of
Waldbillig Waldbillig ( lb, Waldbëlleg or (locally) ) is a commune and small town in the canton of Echternach, Luxembourg. , the town of Waldbillig, which lies in the centre of the commune, has a population of 566. Other towns within the commune include ...
, a town nowadays in
Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
. In mediaeval and early modern
Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
sources, Kreuznach is named not only as ''Crucenacum'', ''Crucin cum'' (adjective ''Crucenacensis'', ''Crucin censis'') and the like, but also as ''Stauronesus, Stauronesum'' (adjective ''Staurone s''; from σταυρός "cross" and νῆσος "island") or ''Naviculacrucis'' (from ''navicula'', a kind of small boat used on inland waterways, called a ''Nachen'' in German, and ''crux'' "cross"). Sometimes also encountered is the abbreviation ''Xnach'' (often with a
Fraktur Fraktur () is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. The blackletter lines are broken up; that is, their forms contain many angles when compared to the curves of the Antiqu ...
X, with a cross-stroke: \mathfrak ). About 1017,
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II (german: Heinrich II; it, Enrico II; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry the Exuberant, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor ("Romanorum Imperator") from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024, and was the last ruler ...
enfeoffed his wife Cunigunde's grandnephew, Count Eberhard V of Nellenburg, with the noble estate of Kreuznach and the
Villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...
Schwabenheim belonging thereto. After his death, King Henry IV supposedly donated the settlement of Kreuznach to the High Foundation of
Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
in 1065, who then transferred it shortly after 1105 – presumably as a
fief A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form ...
 – to the Counts of Sponheim. On Epiphany 1147, it is said that
Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. ( la, Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templars, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order throug ...
performed a miraculous healing at
Saint Kilian Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian (or alternatively ga, Cillín; la, Kilianus), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (Franconia is nowadays the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours in the latter h ...
's Church. In 1183, half of the old Frankish village of Kreuznach at the former Roman castrum – the ''Osterburg'' – burnt down. Afterwards, of the 21 families there, 11 moved to what is now the Old Town (''Altstadt''). In the years 1206 to 1230, Counts Gottfried III of Sponheim (d. 1218) and Johann I of Sponheim (d. 1266) had the castle Kauzenburg built, even though King Philip of Swabia had forbidden them to do so. Along with the building of this castle came the rise of the New Town (''Neustadt'') on the Nahe's north bank. In the years 1235 and 1270, Kreuznach was granted town rights, market rights, taxation rights and tolling rights under the rule of the comital
House of Sponheim The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial ...
, which were acknowledged once again in 1290 by King Rudolf I of Habsburg. In 1279, in the Battle of
Sprendlingen Sprendlingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Sprendlingen lies in Rhenish H ...
, the legend of Michel Mort arose. He is a local legendary hero, a butcher from Kreuznach who fought on the Sponheim side in the battle against the troops of the Archbishop of Mainz. When Count Johann I of Sponheim found himself in difficulties, Michel Mort drew the enemy's lances upon himself, sparing the Count by bringing about his own death. Early knowledge of the town of Kreuznach is documented in one line of a song by the minstrel
Tannhäuser Tannhäuser (; gmh, Tanhûser), often stylized, "The Tannhäuser," was a German Minnesinger and traveling poet. Historically, his biography, including the dates he lived, is obscure beyond the poetry, which suggests he lived between 1245 and ...
from the 13th century, which is preserved in handwriting by
Hans Sachs Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German ''Meistersinger'' ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker. Biography Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg (). As a child he attended a singing school that was held in the churc ...
: ''"vur creűczenach rint aűch die na"''. In Modern German, this would be "''Vor Kreuznach rinnt auch die Nahe''" ("Before Kreuznach, the Nahe also runs"). Records witness
Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...
ish settlement in Kreuznach beginning in the late 13th century, while for a short time in the early 14th century, North Italian traders ( "Lombards") lived in town. In the 13th century, Kreuznach was a fortified town and in 1320, it withstood a
siege A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from la, sedere, lit=to sit. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characteriz ...
by Archbishop-Elector Baldwin of
Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...
(about 1270–1336). In 1361, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor granted Count Walram I of Sponheim (about 1305–1380) a yearly market privilege for Kreuznach. In 1375, the townsfolk rose up against the town council. Count Walram's response was to have four of the uprising's leaders
beheaded Decapitation or beheading is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood, while all other organs are deprived of the ...
at the marketplace. Through its long time as Kreuznach's lordly family, the
House of Sponheim The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial ...
had seven heads: * Simon I (1223–1264) * John I (1265–1290) * John II (1290–1340) and Simon II (1290–1336) * Walram (1336–1380) * Simon III (1380–1414) * Elisabeth (1414–1417) In 1417, however, the "Further" line of the House of Sponheim died out when Countess Elisabeth of Sponheim-Kreuznach (1365–1417) died. In her will, she divided the county between
Electoral Palatinate The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of ...
and the County of Sponheim-Starkenburg, bequeathing to them one fifth and four-fifths respectively. In 1418,
King Sigismund Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was a monarch as King of Hungary and Croatia (''jure uxoris'') from 1387, King of Germany from 1410, King of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1 ...
of
Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
enfeoffed Count Johann V of Sponheim-Starkenburg (about 1359–1437) with the yearly market, the
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, the Jews at Kreuznach and the right of escort, as far as Gensingen on the
Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...
-
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
highway. In 1437, the lordship over Kreuznach was divided up between the Counts of Veldenz, the
Margraves of Baden The Margraviate of Baden (german: Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the east side of the Upper Rhine River in southwestern Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, ...
and Palatinate-Simmern. In 1457, at a time when a children's crusade movement was on the rise, 120 children left Kreuznach on their way to
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by way of
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. In 1475, Electoral Palatinate issued a comprehensive police act for the '' Amt'' of Kreuznach, in which at this time, no Badish ''
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'' resided. Elector Palatine Philip the Upright and
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granted the town leave to hold a second yearly market in 1490. In that same year, Elector Palatine Philip bestowed ownership of the ''saltz- und badbronnen'' ("salty and bathing springs") upon his cooks Conrad Brunn and Matthes von Nevendorf. The briny springs were likely discovered in 1478; nevertheless, a ''Sulzer Hof'' in what is today called the Salinental ("Saltworks Dale") had already been mentioned in the 13th or 14th century. On 24 August 1495, there was another uprising of the townsfolk, but this one was directed at Kreuznach's Palatine ''Amtmann'', Albrecht V Göler von Ravensburg, who had refused to release a prisoner against the posting of a bond. Nobody was beheaded this time, but Elector Palatine Philip did have a few of the leaders maimed, and then put into force a new town order.


Town fortifications

The town wall, first mentioned in 1247, had a footprint that formed roughly a square in the Old Town, and was set back a few metres from what are today the streets Wilhelmstraße, Salinenstraße and Schloßstraße, with the fourth side skirting the millpond. Serving as town gates were, in the north, the ''Kilianstor'' or the ''Mühlentor'' ("
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's Gate" or "Mill Gate"; torn down in 1877), in the southeast the ''Hackenheimer Tor'' (later the ''Mannheimer Tor''; torn down in 1860) and in the south the ''St.-Peter-Pförtchen'', which lay at the end of Rossstraße, and which for security was often walled up. In the New Town, the town wall ran from the ''Butterfass'' ("Butterchurn"; later serving as the prison tower) on the Nahe riverbank up to the intersection of Wilhelmstraße and Brückes on ''
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'' 48, where to the northwest the ''Löhrpforte'' (also called the ''Lehrtor'' or the ''Binger Tor''; torn down about 1837) was found. It then ran in a bow between Hofgartenstraße and Hochstraße to the ''Rüdesheimer Tor'' in the southwest at the beginning of Gerbergasse, whose course it then followed down to the Ellerbach and along the Nahe as a riverbank wall. Along this section, the town wall contained the ''Fischerpforte'' or ''Ellerpforte'' as a watergate and in the south, the ''Große Pforte'' ("Great Gate") at the bridge across the Nahe. Belonging to the fortified complex of the Kauzenburg, across the Ellerbach from the New Town, were the ''Klappertor'' and a narrow, defensive
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(''
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''), from which the street known as "Zwingel" gets its name. On the bridge over to the
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(or the ''Wörth'' as it is called locally; the river island between the two parts of town) stood the ''Brückentor'' ("Bridge Gate"). To defend the town there was, besides the castle's
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en, also a kind of townsmen's defence force or shooting guild (somewhat like a town
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). Preserved as an incunable print from 1487, printed in
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
by
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(about 1425–1503), is an invitation from the mayor and town council to any and all who considered themselves good marksmen with the
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to come to a shooting contest on 23 September.


Jewish population

On 31 March 1283 (2 Nisan 5043) in Kreuznach (קרויצנאך),
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Ephraim bar Elieser ha-Levi – apparently as a result of a judicial sentence – was broken on the wheel. The execution was likely linked to the Mainz
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accusations, which in March and April 1283 also led to
pogrom A pogrom () is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russia ...
s in
Mellrichstadt Mellrichstadt is a town in the district Rhön-Grabfeld, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 17 km southwest of Meiningen, and 13 km northeast of Bad Neustadt Bad Neustadt an der Saale, officially Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale and often sim ...
,
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
,
Bacharach Bacharach (, also known as ''Bacharach am Rhein'') is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not withi ...
and
Rockenhausen Rockenhausen is a town in the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Alsenz, approx. north of Kaiserslautern. Rockenhausen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Nordpfälzer ...
. In 1311, Aaron Judeus de Crucenaco (the last three words mean "the
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from Kreuznach") was mentioned, as was a Jewish toll gatherer from
Bingen am Rhein Bingen am Rhein () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the ''Mäuseturm'', k ...
named Abraham von Kreuznach in 1328, 1342 and 1343. In 1336, Emperor Louis the Bavarian allowed Count Johann II of Sponheim-Kreuznach to permanently keep 60 house-owning freed Jews at Kreuznach or elsewhere on his lands ("''… daß er zu Creützenach oder anderstwoh in seinen landen 60 haußgesäsß gefreyter juden ewiglich halten möge …''"). After further persecution in the time of the
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in 1348/1349, there is no further evidence of Jews in Kreuznach until 1375. By 1382 at the latest, the Jew Gottschalk (who died sometime between 1409 and 1421) from Katzenelnbogen was living in Kreuznach and owned the house at the corner of Lämmergasse and Mannheimerstraße 12 (later: Löwensteiner Hof) near the ''Eiermarkt'' ("Egg Market"). On a false charge of
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, Count Simon III of Sponheim (after 1330–1414) had him thrown in prison and only released him after payment of a hefty ransom. He was afterwards taken into
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by Ruprecht III of the Palatinate against a yearly payment of 10
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s. At Gottschalk's suggestion, Archbishop Johann of
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lifted the " dice toll" for Jews crossing the border into the Archbishopric of Mainz. The special taxes for Jews ordered in 1418 and 1434 by King Sigismund of Luxembourg were also imposed in Kreuznach. In the
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, the eastern part of today's Poststraße in the New Town was the ''Judengasse'' ("Jews' Lane"). The ''Kleine Judengasse'' ran from the ''Judengasse'' to what is today called Magister-Faust-Gasse. In 1482, a "Jewish school" was mentioned, which might already have stood at Fährgasse 2 (lane formerly known as ''Kleine Eselsgass'' – "Little Ass's Lane"), where the Old Synagogue of Bad Kreuznach later stood (first mentioned here in 1715; new Baroque building in 1737; renovated in 1844; destroyed in 1938; torn down in 1953/1954; last wall remnant removed in 1975). In 1525,
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allowed Meïr Levi to settle for, at first, twelve years in Kreuznach, to organise the
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there, to receive visits, to lay out his own burial plot and to deal in medicines. In the earlier half of the 16th century, his son, the physician Isaak Levi, whose collection of medical works became well known as ''Des Juden buch von kreuczenach'' ("The Jew's Book of/from Kreuznach"), lived in Kreuznach. The work is preserved in a manuscript transcribed personally by Louis V, Elector Palatine. The oldest Jewish graveyard in Kreuznach lay in the area of today's ''Rittergut Bangert'' (knightly estate), having been mentioned in 1525 and 1636. The Jewish graveyard on Stromberger Straße was bought in 1661 (one preserved gravestone, however, dates from 1630) and expanded in 1919. It is said to be one of the best preserved in
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. The Jewish family Creizenach, originally from Kreuznach, is known from records to have been in
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and
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from 1733, and to have produced a number of important academics ( Michael Creizenach,
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, and
Wilhelm Creizenach Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach (4 June 1851 – 13 May 1919) was a German historian and librarian. He was the son of Theodore (1818–1877), poet, Hebraist, a prominent expert on work of Goethe, and Luise Flerscheim. He was educated at the ...
). The
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name for Kreuznach was צלם־מקום (abbreviated צ״מ), variously rendered in
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as ''Zelem-Mochum'' or ''Celemochum'' (with the initial Z or C intended to
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the letter "צ", as they would be pronounced /ts/ in German), which literally meant "Image Place", for pious Jews wished to avoid the term ''Kreuz'' ("cross"). In 1828, 425 of the 7,896 inhabitants of the ''Bürgermeisterei'' ("Mayoralty") of Kreuznach (5.4%) adhered to the
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, as did 611 of the town's 18,143 inhabitants (3.4%) in 1890.


Monasteries

Before the
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, Kreuznach had some 8,000 inhabitants and seven monasteries. In the
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and early modern times, the following monasteries were mentioned: * Saint Mary's Monastery (St. Marien-Kloster; monastery's nature legendary) or Saint Mary's Church (''St. Marien-Kirche'') on the ait, supposedly endowed by King
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(d. 639) on the site where Paul's
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Church (''Pauluskirche'') now stands. *
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's Monastery (''Kloster St. Kilian''; old parish church; monastery's nature unclear), in the ''Osterburg'' (old
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,
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's palace) on the ''Heidenmauer'' ("Heathen Wall") built on the site of the Constantinian Saint Martin's Church (''St. Martins-Kirche''), first mentioned about 741 and destroyed by the
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about 891, tied with a hospital in 1310; in the 14th century there was a
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cell with prayer house; the monastery was torn down about 1590. The patrocinia of Saint Martin and Saint Kilian were then added to Saint Mary's Church on the ait. * Augustinian convent of
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, endowed by Rhinegrave Wolfram I (III) of Stein (d. about 1179) about 1140, incorporated into the Schwabenheim Augustinian monastery in 1437, moved to the so-called ''Bubenkapelle'' ("Lads' Chapel") in 1491, reoccupied in 1495, dissolved in 1566/1568; the 15 nuns who were driven out went to
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. In 1624, an attempt to reoccupy the complex by Augustinian monks failed;
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settled there in 1636 and in 1648 they were granted it by agreement, today ''Oranienhof''. The
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from Saint Peter, for whose reverence a forty-day
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was secured from Pope Alexander VI in 1502, was kept until its destruction in 1942 at St. Quintin's Church, Mainz. * Carmelite Monastery to Saint Nicholas, so-called ''Schwarz-Kloster'' ("Black Monastery"), endowed in 1281 by the comital
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, confirmed in 1290 by Archbishop Gerhard II of Eppstein of Mainz (about 1230–1305), dissolved in 1802. * Saint Anthony's and Saint Catherine's Chapel (''St. Antonius-und-St.-Katharinen-Kapelle''; also called the ''Bubenkapelle'') on the way into Mühlengasse ("Mill Lane"), which belonged to the Schwabenheim Augustinian monastery; it was here, right inside the town, that Count Walram of Sponheim (about 1305–1380) moved the
Beguine The Beguines () and the Beghards () were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Western Europe, particularly in the Low Countries, in the 13th–16th centuries. Their members lived in semi-monastic communities but did not take forma ...
cell from Saint Kilian's, given up in 1437; reoccupied by Augustinian nuns from 1491 to 1495, then moved to Saint Peter's. * Saint Wolfgang's
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Monastery (''Franziskanerkloster St. Wolfgang''), endowed in 1472 by Frederick I, Elector Palatine and Count Palatine
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of Simmern, confirmed by Pope Sixtus IV, dissolved in 1802, now the ''Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer'' (" Gymnasium on the Town Wall"). * Saint Vincent's Monastery, location unclear, existed in the
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and later. * Jesuit occupation about 1623, 1625 to 1632 and 1636 to 1652 in the quire of the Ait Church (''Wörthkirche''), later called the Bridge Church (''Brückenkirche'') and now Paul's Church (''Pauluskirche''), received in 1631 from Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
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's and took ownership in 1636. In Kreuznach, the study prefect Johann Engelbert Oliverius worked and died.


Plague and leprosy

The
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threatened Kreuznach several times throughout its history. Great epidemics are recorded as having broken out in 1348/1349 ( Johannes Trithemius spoke of 1,600 victims), 1364, 1501/1502, 1608, 1635 (beginning in September) and 1666 (reportedly 1,300 victims). During the 1501 epidemic, the
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and Palatine prince-raiser Adam Werner von Themar, one of Abbot Trithemius's friends, wrote a poem in Kreuznach about the plague saint, Sebastian. Outside the town, a sickhouse for
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, the so-called ''Gutleuthof'', was founded on the Gräfenbach down from the village of Hargesheim and had its first documentary mention in 1487.


Modern times

In the
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against Elector Palatine Philip of the Rhine, both the town and the castle were unsuccessfully be
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d for six days by Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and
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, who then laid the surrounding countryside waste. The Sponheim abbot Johannes Trithemius had brought the monasterial belongings, the library and the
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to safety in Kreuznach. The besieged town was relieved by
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Captain Hans III, ''Landschad'' of Steinach. In 1507, Master
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assumed the rector's post at the Kreuznach
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, which had been secured for him by Franz von Sickingen. On the grounds of allegations of fornication, he fled the town only a short time afterwards, as witnessed by a letter from Johannes Trithemius to Johannes Virdung, in which Virdung was warned about Faust.
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, who spent
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1508 in
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, stayed in Kreuznach in June 1508 and wrote from there to his daughter Duchess Margaret of Savoy. In 1557, the
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was introduced into Kreuznach. According to the 1601 ''Verzeichnis aller Herrlich- und Gerechtigkeiten der Stätt und Dörffer der vorderen Grafschaft Sponheim im Ampt Creutznach'' ("Directory of All Lordships and Justices of the Towns and Villages of the Further County of Sponheim in the '' Amt'' of Kreuznach"), compiled by Electoral Palatinate ''Ober
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'' Johann von Eltz-Blieskastel-Wecklingen, the town had 807 estates and was the seat of a ''Hofgericht'' (lordly court) to which the "free villages" of Waldböckelheim,
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,
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,
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,
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and Roxheim, which were thus freed from the toll at Kreuznach, had to send ''Schöffen'' (roughly "lay jurists").


Thirty Years' War

During the
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, Kreuznach was overrun and captured many times by various factions fighting in that war: * - In the Siege of Bad Kreuznach the town was taken by the Imperial-Spanish troops of General Marquis Ambrogio Spinola under Wilhelm Ferdinand von Effern. In 1621 Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau travelled to Kreuznach to see Spinola to ask him to the spare the County of Hanau-Münzenberg. The Governors General of the Lower Palatinate, based in Kreuznach, were Don Guillermo de Verdugo di Fauleria, Baron von Böhmisch-Mascha und Tuppau, Don Felipe de Sylva (d. 1644) and Louis de la Tour. * - Kreuznach was taken by
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, Saxe-Weimar and English troops under King Gustav II Adolf; the castle capitulated on ). William Craven and Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck (about 1611–1681?) were both seriously wounded at the conquest of the castle. Serving as commanders were the Scots Colonel Alexander Ramsay (d. 1634) and Lieutenant Colonel (later General and Field Marshal) Robert Douglas. Julius Wilhelm Zincgref was installed in 1632 as the Kreuznach state scrivener by the allied Ludwig Philipp of Palatinate-Simmern. * 14 July 1635 - Imperial troops briefly thrust their way into Kreuznach, but were repulsed by the occupation at the castle. * - Saxe-Weimar and French troops under Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar and Louis de Nogaret Cardinal de La Valette, together with the Swedes passed through Kreuznach, later passing through once again on as they retreated. Kreuznach's last "Swedish" commander was Colonel Johann Georg Stauff from
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. * 20 December 1635 - Kreuznach was taken by Imperial-Spanish and Imperial-Croatian troops under General
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. The castle was still held by the Swedes until May 1636 under an
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upon which both Colonel Stauff and Badish Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Studnitzky von Beneschau (Studnický z Benešova) agreed on . Stationed in the town were regiments headed by
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. As neutral ground, Kreuznach was placed under joint Badish and Palatinate-Simmern rule. * - Kreuznach was taken by French and Saxe-Weimar troops under Duke Henri II d’Orléans, Duke of Longueville, after town commander Braun von Schmidtburg zu Schweich had gone over to them. * - Bad Kreuznach was captured by Imperial- Bavarian and Imperial-Spanish troops under the ''Schillerhaas'', ''
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'' Gilles de Haes began. An earlier attack in March 1641 had been defeated. The town capitulated on , while the fortress held out until . * - Kreuznach was taken by French troops under
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(the castle was held by the Bavarians until ) and transferred by '' Maréchal de camp'' Guy de Bar to Palatinate-Simmern. The town was thus heavily drawn into hardship and woe, and the population dwindled from some 8,000 at the war's outbreak to roughly 3,500. The expression ''"Er ist zu Kreuznach geboren"'' ("He was born at Kreuznach") became a byword in German for somebody who had to struggle with a great deal of hardship. On 19 August 1663, the town was stricken by an extraordinarily high
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on the river Nahe.


Nine Years' War

In the Nine Years' War (known in Germany as the ''Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg'', or War of the Palatine Succession), the Kauzenburg ( castle) was conquered on 5 October 1688 by Marshal Louis François, duc de Boufflers. The town fortifications and the castle were torn down and the town of Kreuznach largely destroyed in May 1689 by French troops under
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Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac (about 1630–1704) or Lieutenant General Marquis Nicolas du Blé d’
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. On 18 October 1689, Kreuznach's churches were burnt down.


18th century

As of 1708, Kreuznach wholly belonged to
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. Under Elector Palatine Karl III Philipp, the Karlshalle Saltworks were built in 1729. Built in 1743 by Prince-Elector, Count Palatine and Duke Karl Theodor were the Theodorshalle Saltworks. On 13 May 1725, after a
cloudburst A cloudburst is an extreme amount of precipitation in a short period of time, sometimes accompanied by hail and thunder, which is capable of creating flood conditions. Cloudbursts can quickly dump large amounts of water, e.g. 25 mm of pre ...
and hailstorm, Kreuznach was stricken by an extreme
flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...
in which 31 people lost their lives, some 300 or 400 head of cattle
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, two houses were utterly destroyed and many damaged and remaining parts of the town wall fell in. Taking part at the founding of the
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''Zum wiedererbauten Tempel der Bruderliebe'' ("To the Rebuilt Temple of Brotherly Love") in
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in 1781 were also Freemasons from Kreuznach. As early as 1775, the
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of the Rhenish Masonic Lodges (8th Provincial Grand Lodge) of Strict Observance had already been given the name "Kreuznach". In the extreme winter of 1783/1784, the town was heavily damaged on 27–28 February 1784 by an icerun and flooding. A pharmacist named Daniel Riem was killed in his house "Zum weißen Schwan" ("At the White Swan") when it collapsed into the floodwaters.


French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times

In the course of the
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(1792–1814), French
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came to Kreuznach, among them Prince Louis Joseph of Condé. In October 1792, French Revolutionary troops under General Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine occupied the land around Kreuznach, remaining there until 28 March 1793. The town itself was briefly occupied by French troops under General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers on 4 January and then again on 16 October 1794. From 30 October until 1 December 1795, the town was held by Imperial troops under Rhinegrave Karl August von Salm-Grumbach, but they were at first driven out in bloody battles by Marshals
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and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. In this time, the town suffered greatly under sackings and involuntary contributions. After the French withdrew on 12 December, it was occupied by an Austrian battalion under Captain Alois Graf Gavasini, which withdrew again on 30 May 1796. On 9 June 1796, Kreuznach was once again occupied by the French. In 1797, Kreuznach, along with all lands on the
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's left bank, was annexed by the French First Republic, a deed confirmed under
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by the 1801
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. The parts of town that lay north of the Nahe were assigned to the
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of Simmern in the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle, whereas those that lay to the south were assigned to the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German). The subprefect in Simmern in 1800 was Andreas van Recum and in 1806 it was Ludwig von Closen. The ''maire'' of Kreuznach as of 1800 was Franz Joseph Potthoff (b. 1756; d. after 1806) and beginning in 1806 it was Karl Joseph Burret. On 20 September and 5 October 1804, the French Emperor,
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visited Kreuznach. On the occasion of Napoleon's victory in the
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a celebratory
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was held at the
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churches in January 1806 on Bishop of Aachen Marc-Antoine Berdolet's orders (Kreuznach was part of his diocese from 1801 to 1821). In 1808, Napoleon made a gift of Kreuznach's two saltworks to his favourite sister, Pauline. In 1809, the Kreuznach Masonic Lodge "Les amis réunis de la Nahe et du Rhin" was founded by van Reccum, which at first lasted only until 1814. It was, however, refounded in 1858. In Napoleon's honour, the timing of the Kreuznach yearly market was set by Mayor Burret on the Sunday after his birthday (15 August). Men from Kreuznach also took part in Napoleon's 1812
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on the French side, to whom a monument established at the Mannheimer Straße graveyard in 1842 still stands. The subsequent German campaign (called the ''Befreiungskriege'', or Wars of Liberation, in Germany) put an end to French rule.


Congress of Vienna to First World War

Until a permanent new order could be imposed under the terms of the
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, the region lay under joint Bavarian- Austrian administration, whose seat was in Kreuznach. When these terms eventually came about, Kreuznach passed to the
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in 1815 and from 1816 it belonged to the ''
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'' of Koblenz in the province of the
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(as of 1822 the Rhine Province) and was a
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with two neighbouring states, the Grand Duchy of Hesse to the east and the Bavarian exclave of the Palatinate to the south. The two saltworks, which had now apparently been taken away from Napoleon's sister, were from 1816 to 1897 Grand-Ducal-Hessian state property on Prussian territory. In 1817, Johann Erhard Prieger opened the first bathing parlour with briny water and thereby laid the groundwork for the fast-growing spa business. In 1843,
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married
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in Kreuznach, presumably at the ''Wilhelmskirche'' (William's Church), which had been built between 1698 and 1700 and was later, in 1968, all but torn down, leaving only the churchtower. In Kreuznach, Marx set down considerable portions of his manuscript ''
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'' (''Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie'') in 1843.
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, who was attending the spa in Kreuznach, and her half-sister Marie Wieck gave a concert at the spa house in 1860. With the building of the
Nahe Valley Railway The Nahe Valley Railway (german: Nahetalbahn) is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe R ...
from
Bingerbrück Bingerbrück () is a ''Stadtteil'' of Bingen am Rhein, on the opposite side of the river Nahe from the old town of Bingen. It was self-administering until 1969. Points of interest Binger Mäuseturm "The Mouse Tower of Bingen" - a customs tower ...
to Saarbrücken in 1858/1860, the groundwork was laid for the town's industrialisation. This, along with the ever-growing income from the spa, led after years of stagnation to an economic boost for the town's development. Nevertheless, the railway was not built for industry and spa-goers alone, but also as a logistical supply line for a war that was expected to break out with France. Before this, though, right at Kreuznach's town limits, Prussia and Bavaria once again stood at odds with each other in 1866. Thinking that was not influenced by this led to another railway line being built even before the
First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, the "strategic railway" from Bad Münster by way of Staudernheim,
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,
Lauterecken Lauterecken () is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein, to which it also belongs. Lauterecken bears the nickname ''Veldenzstadt'', after the comital family ...
and
Kusel Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat. The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
towards the west, making Kreuznach into an important contributor to transport towards the west. Only about 1950 were parts of this line torn up and abandoned. Today, between Staudernheim and Kusel, it serves as a
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for those who wish to ride
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s. In 1891, three members of the
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came to live in Kreuznach. In 1893, they took over the hospital ''Kiskys-Wörth'', which as of 1905 bore the name ''St. Marienwörth''. Since 1948, they have run it together with the Sisters of the Congregation of Papal Law of the Maids of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and today run it as a hospital bearing the classification ''II. Regelversorgung'' under Germany's '' Versorgungsstufe'' hospital planning system. In 1901, the Second Rhenish ''Diakonissen-Mutterhaus'' ("
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's Mother-House"), founded in 1889 in Sobernheim, moved under its abbot, the Reverend Hugo Reich, to Kreuznach. It is now a foundation known as the ''kreuznacher diakonie'' (always written with lowercase initials). In 1904, the pharmacist Karl Aschoff discovered the Kreuznach brine's
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content, and thereafter introduced "radon balneology", a therapy that had already been practised in the Austro-Hungarian town of Sankt Joachimsthal in the Bohemian Ore Mountains (now
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in the
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). Even though the Bad Kreuznach's radon content was much slighter than that found in the waters from Brambach or
Bad Gastein Bad Gastein (; formerly ''Badgastein''; Southern Bavarian: ''Bod Goschdei'') is a spa town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Picturesquely situated in a high valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range, it ...
, the town was quickly billed as a "
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healing spa" – the technical error in that billing notwithstanding. In 1912, a radon inhalatorium was brought into service, into which was piped the air from an old mining gallery at the Kauzenberg, which had a higher radon content than the springwater. The inhalatorium was destroyed in 1945. In 1974, however, the old mining gallery itself was converted into a therapy room. To this day, radon inhalation serves as a natural pain reliever for those suffering from rheumatism. In the
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, both the Kreuznach spa house and other hotels and villas became as of 2 January 1917 the seat of the Great Headquarters of
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. The Kaiser actually lived in the spa house. Used as the General staff building was the Oranienhof. At the spa house on 19 December 1917, General Mustafa Kemal
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 – better known as Atatürk ("Father of the
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") and later president of a strictly secular
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 – the Kaiser,
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and
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all met for talks. Only an extreme wintertime flood on the Nahe in January 1918 led to the
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being moved to Spa in Belgium.


Weimar Republic and Third Reich

After the
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, French troops occupied the
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and along with it, Kreuznach, whose great
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were thereafter mostly abandoned. In 1924, Kreuznach was granted the designation ''Bad'', literally "Bath", which is conferred on places that can be regarded as health resorts. Since this time, the town has been known as Bad Kreuznach. After
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and the
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seized power in 1933, some, among them the trade unionist
Hugo Salzmann Hugo Salzmann (February 4, 19031979) was a German trade unionist, Communist in the Weimar Republic, and an Anti-Fascist during and after the Second World War. Life Salzmann was the son of a glassmaker, born in Bad Kreuznach. After completing an ap ...
, organised resistance to
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. Despite imprisonment, Salzmann survived the
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, and after 1945 sat on town council for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). The
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s who were still left in the district after the
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broke out were on the district leadership's orders taken in 1942 to the former ''Kolpinghaus'', whence, on 27 July, they were deported to
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. Bad Kreuznach, whose spa facilities and remaining hotels once again, from 1939 to 1940, became the seat of the Army High Command, was time and again targeted by Allied air raids because of the
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barracks on Bosenheimer Straße, Alzeyer Straße and Franziska-Puricelli-Straße as well as the strategically important
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-Paris railway line, which then led through the town. The last ''Stadtkommandant'' (town commander), Lieutenant Colonel Johann Kaup (d. 1945), kept Bad Kreuznach from even greater destruction when he offered advancing American troops no resistance, and yielded the town to them on 16 March 1945 with barely any fighting. Shortly before this, German troops had blown up yet another part of the old bridge across the Nahe, thus also destroying residential buildings near the bridge ends.


After 1945

Bad Kreuznach was occupied by US troops in March 1945 and thus stood under American military authority. This even extended to one of the ''
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'' for disarmed German forces, which lay near Bad Kreuznach on the road to
Bretzenheim Bretzenheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlonsheim ...
, and whose former location is now marked by a memorial. It was commonly known as the "Field of Misery". Found in the Lohrer Wald (forest) is a graveyard of honour for wartime and camp victims. Under the Potsdam Protocols on the fixing of occupation zone boundaries, Bad Kreuznach found itself for a while in French zone of occupation, but in an exchange in the early 1950s,
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came back into the districts of
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, Birkenfeld and
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. Until the middle of 2001, the Americans maintained four barracks, a
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unit, a firing range, a small airfield and a drill ground in Bad Kreuznach. The last US forces in Bad Kreuznach were parts of the 1st Armored Division ("Old Ironsides"). In 1958,
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Charles de Gaulle and Federal Chancellor
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agreed in Bad Kreuznach to an institutionalisation of the special relations between the two countries, which in 1963 resulted in the
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. A monumental stone before the old spa house recalls this historic event. On 1 April 1960, the town of Bad Kreuznach was declared, after application to the
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government, a ''große kreisangehörige Stadt'' ("large town belonging to a district"). In 2010 Bad Kreuznach launched a competition to replace the 1950s addition to the ''Alte Nahebrücke'' ("Old Nahe Bridge"). The bridge, designed by competition winner
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architecture of
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, is scheduled for completion by 2012.


Amalgamations

In the course of administrative restructuring in
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, the hitherto self-administering municipalities of Bosenheim, Planig, Ippesheim (all three of which had belonged until then to the Bingen district) and Winzenheim were amalgamated on 7 June 1969 with Bad Kreuznach. Furthermore, Rüdesheim an der Nahe was also amalgamated, but fought the amalgamation in court, winning, and thereby regaining its autonomy a few months later. As part of the
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, a
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was included on the ballot on the question of whether the towns of Bad Kreuznach and Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg should be merged, and 68.3% of the Bad Kreuznach voters favoured negotiations between the two towns. On 25 May 2009, the town received another special designation, this time from the Cabinet: ''Ort der Vielfalt'' – "Place of
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".


Religion

As at 31 August 2013, there are 44,851 full-time residents in Bad Kreuznach, and of those, 15,431 are
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(34.405%), 13,355 are
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(29.776%), 4 belong to the
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(0.009%), 77 belong to the
Greek Orthodox Church The term Greek Orthodox Church ( Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also cal ...
(0.172%), 68 belong to the
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(0.152%), 1 is
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(0.002%), 16 belong to the Free Evangelical Church (0.036%), 41 are
Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...
(0.091%), 2 belong to the Palatinate State Free Religious Community (0.004%), 1 belongs to the Mainz Free Religious Community (0.002%), 4 are Reformed (0.009%), 9 belong to the Alzey Free Religious Community (0.02%), 2 form part of a membership group in a
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community (0.004%) (162 other Jews belong to the Bad Kreuznach-Koblenz worship community .361%while a further one belongs to the State League of Jewish worship communities in Bavaria .002%, 9 are Jehovah's Witnesses (0.02%), 1 belongs to yet another free religious community (0.002%), 5,088 (11.344%) belong to other religious groups and 10,579 (23.587%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.


Politics


Town council

The council is made up of 44 council members, who were elected by
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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the chief mayor as chairwoman. Since this election, the town has been run by a Jamaica coalition of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, the Free Democratic Party and
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. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:


Mayors

Bad Kreuznach's current mayor (''Oberbürgermeister'') is Emanuel Letz, elected in March 2022. Listed here are Bad Kreuznach's mayors since
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ic times:


Coat of arms

The town's arms might be described thus: On an escutcheon argent ensigned with a town wall with three towers all embattled Or, a fess countercompony Or and azure between three crosses pattée sable. Bad Kreuznach's right to bear arms comes from municipal law for the
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of
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. The three crosses pattée (that is, with the ends somewhat broader than the rest of the crosses' arms) are a
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, referring to the town's name, the German word for "cross" being ''Kreuz''. The crosses are sometimes wrongly taken to be Christian
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. In fact, the name Kreuznach developed out of the Celtic-Latin word ''Cruciniacum'', which meant "Crucinius's Home", thus a man's name with the suffix ''—acum'' added, meaning "flowing water". The coat of arms first appeared with this composition on the keystone at Saint Nicholas's Church in the late 13th century. The
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on top of the escutcheon began appearing only about 1800 under French rule. The stylised stretch of town wall was originally rendered reddish-brown, but it usually appears gold nowadays.


Twin towns – sister cities

Bad Kreuznach is twinned with: *
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, France (1963) *
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, Germany (1990)


Culture and sightseeing


Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in
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's Directory of Cultural Monuments:


Bad Kreuznach (main centre)

* Paul's
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Church (''Pauluskirche''), Kurhausstraße 2/4 – Late Gothic quire and transept, early 15th century, west façade after 1458,
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nave and tower 1768–1781, architect Philipp Heinrich Hellermann,
Meisenheim Meisenheim () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', and is also its seat. Meisenheim is a state-recognized recreational resort (''Erholungsort'') and it is s ...
; furnishings * Saint Wolfgang's
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Church (''Kirche St. Wolfgang''), in Breslauer Straße 2 – four colourfully made sculptures; Baroque Madonna, replica of the Late Gothic Saint Wolfgang figure in Sankt Wolfgang, Late Gothic
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, Late Gothic
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* Holy Cross Catholic Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche Heilig-Kreuz''), Wilhelmstraße 39 – Gothic Revival
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, red-
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-block building, 1895–1897, architect Ludwig Becker,
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; furnishings * Saint Nicholas's Catholic Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus''), Poststraße 5 – three-naved
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, substantially from the 13th and 14th centuries, lengthened in the mid 15th century, 1713 partly Baroquified, 1897–1905 renovation resulting in some alterations with tower, architect Ludwig Becker, Mainz; furnishings; outside Late Baroque Crucifix, 1777 * Kauzenburg, Auf dem Kauzenberg – preserved from the castle of the Counts of Sponheim founded after 1105 a few girding walls and
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ed cellar rooms; 1971 expansion into castle
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, architect Gottfried Böhm * Church of the American
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Community (''Kirche der amerikanischen Pfingstgemeinde''), built behind it, Viktoriastraße 18 – sandstone-framed plastered building, Baroquified gable risalto, 1909, architect Carl Jung, with municipal hall * Spa zone (monumental zone) – built after Dr. Eberhard Prieger's discovery of brine's healing power in 1817 according to systematic
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in several phases in a spread-out pattern behind front gardens with avenues: ''Badeinsel'' ("Bathing Island") and northern spa zone up to Weinkauffstraße beginning in 1840 or 1847, area abutting to the south beginning in 1900, so-called expanded spa zone southeast of Salinenstraße beginning in 1880; many individual monuments such as the spa house (1840–1860), four-winged bathhouse (1911/1912), private bathhouses ( Late Classicist and
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), especially monuments created by the sculptor family Cauer and bronze figures, saltworks (Karlshalle, Theodorshalle); in the south a jutting, pointed area bordered in the east by the railway line, in the north by Baumstraße/Salinenstraße/Schloßstraße, the millpond and the old bridge across the Nahe, in the west by a strip along the bank on the other side of the Nahe. * New Town (''Neustadt'', monumental zone) – historically expanded development in the part of town founded after 1200 by the Counts of Sponheim north of the Nahe including the Ellerbach: late mediaeval Saint Nicholas's Church (''St. Nikolauskirche''), cellar and ground floor, partly also upper floors, with later upper floors added, former castle houses and nobles' houses from the 16th or 17th century as well as the town scrivener's office from 1540,
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houses from the 18th century with Classicist and Renaissance Revival façades from the 19th century and ''Wilhelmsbrücke'' (bridge) in imitation of
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style with towers from 1906 * Town fortifications – The town fortifications are made up of three complete wall systems around sovereign area ('' Burgfrieden''), Neustadt ("New Town") and Altstadt ("Old Town") with outward ditches, wall towers and gate towers, first mentioned in 1247, destroyed in 1689, repaired in the 18th century, in late 18th century ditches filled in, beginning about 1840, walls torn down or integrated into new buildings; wall fragments preserved from the early-13th-century Kauzenburg ( castle) destroyed in the 17th century; expansion in 1971 by Gottfried Böhm; preserved from the sovereign area (''Burgfrieden''): stepped wall as far as foundation of ''Klappertorturm'' (tower), piece of wall with later added half-round tower as far as ''Stumpfer Turm'' ("Stub Tower", also called ''Pfeffermühlchen'', or "Little Peppermill") as well as the wall that partly forms the Nahe's bank, today partly overbuilt; preserved from the ringwall around the New Town with formerly seven towers and three gates: ''Butterfass'' ("Butterchurn") and piece of wall with battlement walkway, foundation remnants of the ''Winzenheimer Turm'' (tower), piece of wall of the ''Schanz'' ("Redoubt") with ditch, further remnants of the fortifications in the houses built up against them in the 19th century, a watergate (''Fischerpforte'', meaning "Fishermen's Gate") as well as the ''Große Pforte'' ("Great Gate", today walled up); preserved from the Old Town fortifications with formerly 13 towers, three gates and ''Peterspförtchen'' ("Peter's Little Gate"): wall remnants along the millpond, twin watergates (near Wilhelmstraße) and jutting part of the powder tower, at the ''Mehlwaage'' ("Flour Scales", but actually a house) an archlike structure built on as well as a great bit of wall in the garden of the former
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monastery (now a Gymnasium) * Agricolastraße 1 – lordly villa with hip roof, 1925/1926, architect Alexander Ackermann * Agricolastraße 6 – sophisticated cube-shaped villa with hip roof,
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, 1925/1926, architect Alexander Ackermann * Agricolastraße 7 – villalike building with hip roof, 1921/22, architect Vorbius * Albrechtstraße 18 – one-floor villa with
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gables,
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motifs, 1904/1905, architect Friedrich Metzger * Albrechtstraße 20 – villa with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival and
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motifs, 1901/1902, architect Friedrich Metzger * Albrechtstraße 22 – villalike house with mansard roof, Renaissance Revival and Baroque Revival motifs, 1902/1903, architect Friedrich Metzger * Alte Poststraße 2 – three-floor post-Baroque shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), possibly from the earlier half of the 19th century * At Alte Poststraße 4 –
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, marked 1797 * Alte Poststraße 6 – corner house; Late Baroque house with (hipped) mansard roof; Baroquified window 1909, architect Anton Kullmann; cellar older * Alte Poststraße 7 – Late Baroque house, partly timber-frame (plastered), conversion 1839, architect Peter Engelmann; cellar possibly older * Alte Poststraße 8 – Late Baroque house, partly timber-frame (plastered or slated) * Alte Poststraße 15 – former ''Volxheimer Burghaus''; gabled house, ground floor from the 16th century, upper floor and gables in decorative
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about 1710 * Alzeyer Straße – barracks symmetrically about a grassy yard, scattered building complex with representative three-floor Heimatstil buildings, 1932 and years following * Auf dem Martinsberg 1 (monumental zone) – "stewardship complex with office building" on an L-shaped footprint, 1899, architects Curjel & Moser, originally belonging to villa at Brückes 3; joining wing 1919 * Auf dem Martinsberg 2 – lordly
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villa,
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building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1884, architect Jacob Karst; oriel additions 1920s; one-floor brick side building with hip roof, 1888; front garden fencing dating from time of building * Auf dem Martinsberg 3/5 – pair of
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houses; clinker brick building with three-floor side risalti, 1896/1897, architect Anton Kullmann * Baumgartenstraße 3 – two-and-a-half-floor tenement, brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1894/1895, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Baumgartenstraße 39 – three-and-a-half-floor corner shophouse with oriel turret, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906/1907, architects Brothers Lang * Baumgartenstraße 42 – house;
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed clinker brick building, hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1898/1899, architect Hermann Herter * Baumgartenstraße 46/48 – pair of semi-detached houses; clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
, 1898, no. 46, architect Hermann Herter, no. 48, architects Brothers Lang * Baumgartenstraße 50 – two-and-a-half-floor house, brick building decorated with clinker brick, 1896/1897, architects Brothers Lang * Baumstraße 15 – two-and-a-half-floor villa; clinker-brick-faced building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1880/1881, architect Town Master Builder Hartmann (?); one-floor front wing, 1934, architect Karl Heep * Beinde 18 – corner house; two essentially 18th-century Late Baroque plastered
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
houses, conversion and hip roof 1907, architect L. Zimmer * At Beinde 20 – portal with skylight, Late Baroque, marked 1782 * Bleichstraße 18/20 – axially symmetrical pair of semi-detached shophouses; two-tone clinker brick building, 1899/1900 * Bleichstraße 23 – sophisticated sandstone-framed clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1896/1897, architects Brothers Lang * Bleichstraße 25 – sandstone-framed brick building with hipped mansard roof, 1896/1897, architect August Henke * Bleichstraße 26 – two-and-a-half-floor corner shophouse; sandstone-framed clinker brick building with tower oriel and hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1892, architect Martin Hassinger * Bosenheimer Straße 79 – house and factory building, decorative clinker brick building with half-hip roof, Renaissance Revival, marked 1899/1900, architect Johann Stanger; factory: spacious brick building * Bosenheimer Straße 200, RolandsbogenLandkreis Bad Kreuznach: Inhaltsverzeichnis des Kreisrechtes
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(monumental zone) – urban residential development; flat-roof buildings grouped around an inner yard, 1927/1928, architect Town Building Councillor Hugo Völker * Brückes 1 – former
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; Classicist building with hip roof with triaxial gable risalto, 1834 and years following, architect Ludwig Behr * Brückes 3 – lordly
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
villa with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, shortly before 1876 * Brückes 5 –
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, partly three-floor Gründerzeit villa with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1870 * Brückes 12 – sophisticated three-floor house, Classicist motifs, about 1840 * Brückes 14 – two-and-a-half-floor house, about 1840 * Brückes 16 – lordly Gründerzeit villa with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1882, architect Jacob Karst * Brückes 18 – lordly Gründerzeit villa, two-and-a-half-floor building with hip roof, 1877/1878, architect Ludwig Bohnstedt * Brückes 20 – spacious three-floor building with hip roof, about 1840; side building dating from same time * Brückes 21 – former lordly winegrowing estate, house and
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factory; one-and-a-half-floor
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complex with hip roofs, about 1860; spacious cellar addition on an L-shaped footprint, 1877, architects Schaeffer and Bechthold; stone cellar, 1887, architect Jacob Kossmann * Brückes 22 – two-and-a-half-floor Classicist house, 1880/1881 * Brückes 24 – house, Romanesquified motifs, about 1850 * Brückes 27 – storage and dwelling house; one-and-a-half-floor Classicist building with hipped mansard roof, about 1879 * Brückes 33 – former Potthoff & Söhne winegrowing estate; representative villalike building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1860, front wing with Renaissance Revival motifs, 1909, architect Anton Kullmann; wing, about 1860; southern estate building, 1888, architect Jacob Karst * Brückes 41 – Anheuser & Fehrs winegrowing estate; residencelike shophouse; three-wing complex in stone-block wallwork, Heimatstil, 1930s, reconstruction 1948/1949, architect Theo Wilkens * Brückes 53 – Economic Adviser August E. Anheuser winegrowing estate; one-floor
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed quarrystone building, about 1860, Gothicized motifs, expansion 1955, architect Theo Wilkens;
vault Vault may refer to: * Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards Architecture * Vault (architecture), an arched form above an enclosed space * Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored * Burial vault (enclosure ...
ed cellar 1894, hall built over it in 1953 * Brückes 54 – former main railway station; two-wing castlelike red clinker brick building, Romanesquified motifs, 1860 * Brückes 60 – house resembling a country house; two-and-a-half-floor brick building, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, hip roof, 1902 architect possibly Franz Collein * Brückes 63a –
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
house; three-floor clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs * Bühler Weg 3 – bungalow with high mansard floor, 1925/1926, architect Peter Riedle; characterises street's appearance * Bühler Weg 5 – villalike house with
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, 1927/1928, architect Martin Au * Bühler Weg 8 – villalike corner house, 1927/1928, architect Martin Au * Bühler Weg 12 – villalike corner house with hip roof, 1927, architect Martin Au * Cauerstraße 1 – lordly villa,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
and Art Nouveau motifs, 1902/1903, architect Hans Best * Cauerstraße 3 – villa with hip roof, corner tower with pointed roof, 1925/1926, architect Alexander Ackermann * Cecilienhöhe 3 – ''Viktoriastift'', 1913–1916, architect Hans Best; "Cecilienhaus", four-floor plastered building on almost T-shaped footprint, hip roofs, Neoclassical motifs; built behind it, four-floor wing with three-floor part in front, floor added in 1925, hip roof with lookout tower; mother-and-child group by Ludwig Cauer * Dessauer Straße, Hüffelsheimer Straße, Schlosspark Museum-Roman villa(monumental zone) – remnants of the
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palatial villa, Puricelli-
Schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...
(Dessauer Straße 49 and 51) with park and former estate (Hüffelsheimer Straße 1,3,5) * Dessauerstraße 1a – three-floor
terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house ( UK) or townhouse ( US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings share side walls. In the United State ...
; Late Historicist brick building with mansard roof, about 1900 * Dessauerstraße 2 – Classicist pair of semi-detached houses, about 1850; four-floor plastered stone-block or porphyry building and slightly newer porphyry building with display windows from 1896 * Dessauerstraße 6 – lordly villa with
knee wall A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book ''A Visual Dictionary of Architecture'', Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall ...
, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1870 * Dessauerstraße 7 – house;
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed brick building, about 1870 * Dessauerstraße 9 – former wine cellar; one-floor brick building with barge-rafter gable, 1891 (?) * Dessauerstraße 31 – former tanner's house; partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, about 1820 * Dessauerstraße 41 – Gründerzeit villa; two-and-a-half-floor building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1870, polygonal oriel window 1891 * Dessauerstraße 43 – Neoclassical villa, cube-shaped building with hip roof, about 1870; built behind it, a brick building, 1883, architect Friedrich Metzger * Dessauerstraße 49 and 51 – former Puricelli-
Schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...
; two-and-a-half-floor
Classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
building with hip roof, 1772/1773, conversion after 1803, expansion 1861, built behind it, two-floor winged addition 1881; in the park, converted into a landscaped English garden in the 1890s, tomb of the Baroness of
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, 1820; end wall and gate, marked 1906; gatekeeper's house, one-and-a-half-floor
clinker brick Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shin ...
building, about 1906 * Dr.-Alfons-Gamp-Straße 1 – rheumatism clinic; four-floor building typical of the time with hip roof with rounded side risalti, 1956/1957 * At Dr.-Alfons-Gamp-Straße 1 – former Freemasons' Lodge; villalike plastered building with two-floor "bell roof", 1925, architect Willibald Hamburger * Dr.-Geisenheyner-Straße 3 – villalike house; cube-shaped tented-roof building, 1927, architect Peter Riedle, Rüdesheim * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 6 – former
inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...
and bathhouse; sophisticated two-wing building with hip roof and knee wall, 1850/1864 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 7 – two-and-a-half-floor house,
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed porphyry building, 1850/1859 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 8 – elegant house; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1870; addition 1889 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 10 – Gründerzeit villa; brick building with hip roof,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
motifs, 1889, architects Brothers Lang * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 12/14 – pair of semi-detached houses; sandstone-framed brick building with mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1890/1891, architects Brothers Lang * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 13 – villalike corner house and bathhouse; two-and-a-half-floor porphyry building with hip roof, one-floor addition with hip roof, 1850/1859 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 24 – house with bell-shaped
spire light Spire light ( Fr. ''lucarne''), the term given to the windows in a spire which are found in all periods of English Gothic architecture, and in French spires form a very important feature in the composition. There is an early example in the spire ...
, Renaissance Revival motifs, marked 1900 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 28 – villa; Neoclassical building with hip roof, 1870 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 28a/28b – pair of semi-detached villas; Historicized quarrystone, timber-frame and plastered building, 1902/1903, architects August Henke & Sohn * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 30 – villa with hip roof, about 1870, bay window 1895 * Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Straße 32, Oranienstraße 5 – pair of semi-detached houses; spacious building with hip roof and knee wall, imitation-ancient and Classicist motifs, 1873/1874, architect Jacob Lang; characterises street's appearance * Eichstraße 6 – two-and-a-half-floor house; brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1893/1894, architect August Henke * Eiermarkt 1 – four-floor shophouse; Classicist plastered building, partly timber-frame, 1873/1874, architect August Henke, with older parts, cellar possibly about 1500 * Eiermarkt 2 – three-floor shophouse; Classicistically framed plastered building, 1887, architect Jacob Kossmann, timber-frame upper floors possibly from the 18th century; cellar about 1500 (?) * Eiermarkt 3 – three-floor house;
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
building (plastered), after 1689, built behind it, wooden bridge to the next house * Eiermarkt 4 – three-floor corner house; timber-frame building (plastered) with mansard roof, after 1689, makeover in the 19th century; two older cellars (about 1500?) * Eiermarkt 8 – three-floor shophouse; plastered building, possibly from the 18th century; two cellars before 1689 * Eiermarkt 10 – three-floor shophouse;
Late Renaissance Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy ...
building, partly timber-frame (plastered); cellar about 1500 (?) * Eiermarkt 10a – four-floor shophouse; essentially Baroque, partial makeover in 1888, architect Jacob Kossmann * Eiermarkt 11 – three-floor shophouse with mansard roof, 18th century, Classicist makeover in the 19th century * Eiermarkt 12 – three-floor Baroque timber-frame house (plastered), partial makeover in the 19th century * Eiermarkt 13 – three-floor corner house; imposing porphyry building, shortly after 1849, architect Johann Henke jun.; cellar about 1500 (?) * Eiermarkt 14 – lordly, villalike
townhouse A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence ...
; three-floor cube-shaped building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1862/1863, architect C. Conradi, conversion 1930/1931, architect Wilhelm Metzger; in the yard a Renaissance gate * Forsthausweg 5 – spacious half-hip roof villa in corner location, 1926, architect Peter Riedle * Franziska-Puricelli-Straße 3 – ''St. Franziskastift'' (" Saint Frances's Foundation"); schloss-like
Baroque Revival The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptu ...
building, 1909, architects Brothers Friedhofen, Koblenz-Lützel * Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 3 – sophisticated villa; building with mansard roof on irregular footprint, Baroque and Renaissance Revival motifs, 1908/1909, architect Kaspar Bauer * Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 5 – villa resembling a country house; plastered building on quarrystone pedestal,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
motifs, 1907/1908, architect Hermann Karl Herter * Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 6 – villa resembling a country house; plastered building, partly timber-frame, 1907/1908, architect Hans Best * Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 7 – villa resembling a country house; building with half-hip roof, 1912/1913, architect Jean Rheinstädter * Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 9/11 – pair of
semi-detached A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single family duplex dwelling house that shares one common wall with the next house. The name distinguishes this style of house from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced hou ...
villas resembling country houses with odd-shaped roofscape, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1904/1905, architect Kaspar Bauer * Friedrichstraße 4 – lordly villa on irregular footprint with hip and mansard roofs, Baroque Revival under Art Nouveau influence, 1903/1904, architect Jean Rheinstädter; terrace with balustrade, 1927, architect Hans Best * Friedrichstraße 5 – two-and-a-half-floor villa; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1870 * Friedrichstraße 6 – three-floor corner house, Renaissance Revival, about 1870 * Friedrichstraße 8 – two-and-a-half-floor villa; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1870 * Geibstraße 1 – so-called " Observatory" (''Sternwarte''); two- or three-floor villa; brick-framed cube-shaped plastered building,
New Objectivity The New Objectivity (in german: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the ''Kunsthalle'' in Mannheim, wh ...
* Gerbergasse 3 – three-floor corner house,
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
clinker brick building, 1885/1886, architect Josef Pfeiffer * Gerbergasse 5 – three-floor corner shophouse, Gründerzeit clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, 1885/1886, architect Josef Pfeiffer * Gerbergasse 19 – Gründerzeit
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed house with
knee wall A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book ''A Visual Dictionary of Architecture'', Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall ...
, partly brick-clad, marked 1889 * Gerbergasse 30 –
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house, partly plastered, 18th century (?) * Göbenstraße 4/4a – three-and-a-half-floor
terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house ( UK) or townhouse ( US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings share side walls. In the United State ...
s, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1904/1905, Architects Brothers Lang * Göbenstraße 6/6a – three-and-a-half-floor terraced houses, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906, Architects Brothers Lang * Göbenstraße 8/10 – pair of semi-detached houses, three-part brick-framed plastered building, 1903, architect Peter Ziemer * Goethestraße 2 – villalike house, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Peter Riedle * Goethestraße 4 – villalike house, one-and-a-half-floor plastered building with hip or mansard roof, 1925/1926, architect Martin Au * Goethestraße 5 – villalike house, one- and two-floor building with hip roof, 1925/1926, architect Martin Au * Goethestraße 7 – villalike house, plastered building with hip or mansard roof, 1925/1926, architect Rudolf Hassinger; front garden fencing from time of building * Goethestraße 1–7, 9, Bühler Weg 8, 10, 12, Röntgenstraße 2/4, 6, 8, Pestalozzistraße 3–9, Waldemarstraße 21, 23, 25, 27 (monumental zone)– villalike Historicized plastered buildings, mainly with hip roofs, some with mansard roofs, part of the town expansion at the Kuhberg out from the town centre in the 1920s * Graf-Siegfried-Straße 8 – villalike house, building with hip roof, 1920s, architect Martin Au * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 11–15 – Public Lina-Hilger- Gymnasium; two- and three-floor buildings arranged at right angles, between 1951 and 1975 * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 31/33 – pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof,
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
ornamentation, 1926, architect Engineer Düttermann * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 35/37 – pairs of semi-detached houses, Historicized and Art Deco motifs, 1927, architect Richard Starig * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 42/44, Steinkaut 1/2 – differentiated, individually shaped housing development with hip roofs, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco motifs, 1926, architect Jean Rheinstädter * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße/Lina-Hilger-Straße, Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 1/3, 5, 7, Lina-Hilgerstraße 1, 3/5 and Bosenheimer Straße 6 and 8 (monumental zone) – five artificial-stone-framed buildings with hip roofs, 1925/1926, architect Johann Au, built as dwellings for junior officers * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 14, 16/18, 20/22, 24/26, 28 (monumental zone) – sophisticated residential buildings, three-floor buildings with hip roofs with two-floor lobbies, 1926/1927, architect Hugo Völker, based on plans from 1919, architect Alexander Ackermann * Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 14–30 (even numbers), 17–37 (odd numbers), Ringstraße 102–110 (even numbers), Jean-Winckler-Straße 2–20 (even numbers), Röntgenstraße 20–24 (even numbers), 25–35 (odd numbers) (monumental zone) – various apartment blocks as well as detached and semi-detached villas in Historicized 1920s style with Heimatstil,
Baroque Revival The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptu ...
and Neoclassical motifs, substantially from 1925/1926 * Gut Neuhof – three-sided estate; house, building with half-hip roof, about 1800, right-angled addition, 1905, further right-angled addition over late mediaeval (?) cellars, commercial building from the mid 19th and early 20th centuries * Güterbahnhofstraße 6 – house, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1860, one-floor side building * Güterbahnhofstraße 7 – house, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1900 * Güterbahnhofstraße 9 – sophisticated two-and-a-half-floor house, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1860, spacious side building * Gymnasialstraße 11 – three-floor house, Late Classicist building with hip roof, 1856 * Heinrichstraße 3 – sophisticated house, clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival and Baroque Revival motifs, 1898/1899, architect Friedrich Metzger * Heinrichstraße 5 – lordly villa, brick building, Renaissance Revival, 1895/1896, architect Jean Rheinstädter * Heinrichstraße 7/9 – pair of
semi-detached A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single family duplex dwelling house that shares one common wall with the next house. The name distinguishes this style of house from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced hou ...
villas resembling country houses, Historicized motifs, 1907/1908, architect Friedrich Metzger * Heinrichstraße 11/11a – representative pair of semi-detached villas resembling country houses, 1908/1909, architect Friedrich Metzger * Helenenstraße 5 – sophisticated clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1898/99, architect Jacob Kossmann * Helenenstraße 7 – villalike house, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1903/1904, architect Heinrich Müller * Helenenstraße 8 – villalike house, cube-shaped brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1904/1905, architect Heinrich Müller * Helenenstraße 9/11 – pair of semi-detached houses with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906, architect Heinrich Müller * Helenenstraße 10 – house, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1905/1906, architect Heinrich Müller * Helenenstraße 12 – corner house with hip roof resembling a country house, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1906/1907, architect Heinrich Müller * Herlesweiden 1–14, Birkenweg 1–27 (odd numbers), Erlenweg 2, 4, 6, 7–14, Ulenweg 1–16, Alzeyer Straße 108–138 (even numbers), Pfalzstraße 13–35 (odd numbers), Rheinstraße 38, 38a, 40–46 (even numbers) (monumental zone)– buildings, alike in shape but with varying dimensions, with hip roofs and front gardens, 1928/1929, architect Paul Gans, on the northwest corner the more sophisticated, slightly earlier built houses Rheinstraße 102 and Birkenweg 1 * Hochstraße 9 – former Hotel Adler; ten-axis four-floor building with hip roof, third fourth of the 19th century, Late Classicist façade partly altered (shop built in) * Hochstraße 17 – three-floor corner house, post-Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, early 19th century * Hochstraße 22a – three-floor shophouse, early 19th century; cellar older (no later than 16th century) * Hochstraße 25 – three-winged complex with hip roofs, middle building late 18th century, side wings early 19th century; Baroque portal of the former
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church, 1632 * Hochstraße 30/32 – "''Gasthaus zum grünen Kranz''" ("
Inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...
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Wreath A wreath () is an assortment of flowers, leaves, fruits, twigs, or various materials that is constructed to form a circle . In English-speaking countries, wreaths are used typically as household ornaments, most commonly as an Advent and Chri ...
"); U-shaped complex; no. 30, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, marked 1601, no. 32, partly timber-frame, 19th century, joining wing early 20th century * Hochstraße 34 – three-floor house, partly timber-frame (plastered), 18th or early 19th century * Hochstraße 36 – "Stadt Koblenz" ("City of Koblenz") Inn; three-floor
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed clinker brick building, 1902, architect Fritz Wagner * Hochstraße 42 – shophouse, Baroque building with hip roof, partly timber-frame, 1788 * Hochstraße 44 – Baroque shophouse, partly timber-frame, left half marked 1668, right half from the 18th century * At Hochstraße 45 –
armorial A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th centu ...
stone from the former
House of Leyen The House von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck is an ancient German noble family of princely and historically sovereign rank. As a former ruling and mediatized family, it belongs to the Hochadel (high nobility). History The origin can be ...
estate, marked 1553 * Hochstraße 46 – former Inn "''Zur weißen Taube''" ("At the White Dove"); three-floor shophouse with hip roof, ground floor partly before 1689, timber-frame upper floors (plastered) from the mid 18th century, open timber framing and loft 1902, architect Jacob Karst * Hochstraße 48/50, Fischergasse 10 –
townhouse A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence ...
, former ''Hundheimer Hof''; Late Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, 1715,
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
clinker brick Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shin ...
addition about 1900, architect Friedrich Hartmann * Hochstraße/corner of Stromberger Straße – town wall "''Schanz''" ("Redoubt"); in the former casino garden 30 m-long stretch of wall of the New Town fortification * Hofgartenstraße 1 – one- or two-and-a-half-floor house, brick building,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
motifs, 1889, Architects Brothers Lang * Hofgartenstraße 2 – two-and-a-half-floor villa with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1877, architect Schiffer * Hofgartenstraße 3 – villalike house, representative brick building with hip roof, 1900/1901, architect Johann Arthur Otte,
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* Hofgartenstraße 4 – Gründerzeit villa, richly ornamented brick building, Renaissance Revival, 1890/1891, architects Curjel & Moser,
Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
; wine cellar building 1890/1891, architect Jacob Karst * Hofgartenstraße 5 – representative one- and two-floor villa, broadly mounted Baroquified building with hip roof, 1922, architect Hans Best,
retaining wall Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides. Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to a slope that it would not naturally keep to ...
at side of garden 18th century * Hofgartenstraße 14 – former municipal
Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...
; sophisticated three-part clinker brick building with mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1894 and years following, architect Friedrich Hartmann, gymnasium and caretaker's house from time of building * Hofgartenstraße 22 – representative house in country house style, 1908/1909, architect Adolf Riekenberg, Darmstadt * Hofgartenstraße 32 – former "''Klein-Kinder-Schule''" (
preschool A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary sch ...
); one-and-a-half-floor manorlike building with hipped mansard roof, 1905/1906, architect Hans Best * Hofgartenstraße 70 – former
Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...
; representative, three- and four-floor clinker brick building with plastered surfaces, 1906, architect Friedrich Hartmann * Hofgartenstraße 74 – three-floor house, brick-framed plastered building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1905/1906, architect Karl Keller * Hofgartenstraße 76 – house, brick-framed plastered building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1904, architect Karl Keller * Hofgartenstraße 90 – imposing corner house, building with hip roof with oriel turret, 1907/1908, architect Anton Kullmann * Hospitalgasse – town wall; 75 m-long stretch of wall of the Old Town fortification in the garden of what is now the Gymnasium * Hospitalgasse 4 and 6 – State Gymnasium and "''Kronberger Hof''"; four-wing complex of great dimensions; Gymnasium, north wing 1885, west wing 1912 and years following, extra floors after 1945; auditorium: Renaissance Revival, 1900/1901, architects Kallmeyer and J. Hensch; "''Kronberger Hof''", former castle house: building with half-hip roof, about 1600 * Hospitalgasse 6 – former Saint Wolfgang's Monastery Church (''Klosterkirche St. Wolfgang''); Late Gothic quire, quarrystone, 1742; incorporated into new building at Gymnasium * Hüffelsheimer Straße 1, 3, 5 – former Puricelli landhold, so-called ''Gütchen'' ("Little Estate"); three-wing complex, main building Late Baroque building with mansard roof, wings possibly from the early 19th century; Gründerzeit doorman's cabin, 1900, Renaissance Revival gate complex; commercial and administrative building, sophisticated brick building, 1902; long, stately carriage shed with decorative timber framing, 1903; scales, brick building, about 1898; "''Römerhalle''" ("Romans' Hall"), 1898, architect Christian Hacke * Im Hasenbühl 14 – villalike house with hip roof, 1939, architect Jean Rheinstädter * Jahngasse 2 – castle house of the "''Stumpfer Hof''"; three-floor Baroque plastered building, partly timber-frame (plastered), 17th century (?); late mediaeval wall remnants * Jean-Winckler-Straße 4 – bungalow, wood-clad timber-frame building with mansard roof, 1924 * Jean-Winckler-Straße 6 – bungalow, "''Halbmassivhaus System Schwarz''", 1924/1925 * Jean-Winckler-Straße 8 – villalike house, 1925, architect Wilhelm Förster * Jean-Winckler-Straße 10/12 – three-part pair of semi-detached villalike houses, 1925/1926, architect Martin Au * Jean-Winckler-Straße 18 – house with hip roof,
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, 1926/1927, architect Martin Au * Jean-Winckler-Straße 20, Röntgenstraße 35 – pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1926/1927, architect Düttermann,
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* Johannisstraße 8 – corner house with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1896/1897, architect Rudolf Frey * Johannisstraße 9 – two-and-a-half-floor house, sandstone-framed plastered building, 1905/1906, architect Peter Monz * Jungstraße 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 (monumental zone) – six three-floor tenements, clinker brick buildings, Renaissance Revival, 1893 and years following, Architects Brothers Lang; characterises street's appearance * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 2 – sophisticated Late Classicist plastered building, possibly 1850, architect J. Müller * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 4 – lordly villa with
knee wall A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book ''A Visual Dictionary of Architecture'', Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall ...
and hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1860, architect C. Conradi * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 7 – in town library's new building a bronze
bust Bust commonly refers to: * A woman's breasts * Bust (sculpture), of head and shoulders * An arrest Bust may also refer to: Places * Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in France *Lashkargah, Afghanistan, known as Bust historically Media * ''Bust'' (magazin ...
of Gustav Pfarrius, 1898 by Hugo Cauer; former garden pavilion, imitation-ancient columned hall, 1850/1860 * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 10 – three-floor shophouse with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1868/1869 * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 11b – three-floor terraced house with open front buildings, about 1860 * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 11 – retail pavilion at the edge of the spa park, early 20th century * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 14 – former "''Bade- und Logierhaus''" ("Bathing and Lodging House"); three-and-a-half-floor Late Classicist building with hip roof, 1865 architect possibly Johann Pfeiffer * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 18 – Gründerzeit villa with hip roof, 1899/1900, architect August Henke * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 21 – former "''Bade- und Logierhaus''" ("Bathing and Lodging House"), three-floor house with knee wall and hip roof, imitation-ancient and Renaissance Revival motifs, 1865/1866, architect Ludwig Bohnstedt * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 26 – villa with mansard roof, Late Classicist motifs, about 1870,
veranda A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''vera ...
addition with stained glass windows from 1905 * Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 28 – sophisticated villalike house with hip roof, rooftop terrace, 1877/1878, architect R. Wagener,
staircase tower A staircase tower or stair tower (german: Treppenturm, also ''Stiegenturm'' or ''Wendelstein'') is a tower-like wing of a building with a circular or polygonal plan that contains a stairwell, usually a helical staircase. History Only a few e ...
1891 * Kilianstraße 15 – Classicist corner house, 1875, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Kirschsteinanlage – watergate; town wall remnant with twin watergates of the Old Town fortifications and addition of the former ''Pulverturm'' ("Powder Tower") * Klappergasse – ''Klappertorturm'' (gate tower); in the wall running parallel to the Nahe's bank a pedestal remnant of the ''Klappertorturm'' of the town fortifications, wall fragment at the Kauzenberg (hill) * Kornmarkt 2 – three-and-a-half-floor corner shophouse, three-window house, about 1865; cellar about 1600 * (zu) Kornmarkt 5 – tower of the former Lutheran ''Wilhelmskirche'' (William's Church); quarrystone or
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-block wallwork, Gothic Revival bell floor, after 1862 * Kornmarkt 6 – lordly corner shophouse, three-floor Gründerzeit clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, 1894/1895, architects Curjel & Moser, Karlsruhe * Kornmarkt 7 – hotel and
inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...
, spacious, essentially Baroque building, 18th century, mansard roof and
spire light Spire light ( Fr. ''lucarne''), the term given to the windows in a spire which are found in all periods of English Gothic architecture, and in French spires form a very important feature in the composition. There is an early example in the spire ...
1899, architects Curjel & Moser, Karlsruhe * Kreuzstraße 2a/b, Wilhelmstraße 30 – three-floor shophouse, Late Gründerzeit clinker brick building with mansard roof, 1898/1899, architects Philipp and Jean Hassinger, expanded 1932 * Kreuzstraße 69 – former ''Karl-Geib-Museum'', originally an
Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...
schoolhouse; sophisticated porphyry building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1850/1851, architect Overbeck; in the front garden "Pfalzsprung", two Baroque steles with
relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
s * Kreuzstraße 76 – villalike house, imitation-ancient-framed brick building, 1882 (?) * Kreuzstraße 78/80 – pair of semi-detached houses, porphyry quarrystone building, 1847/1864 * Kurhausstraße – monument to J. E. P. Prieger, lifesize
marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...
sculpture, 1867, Karl Cauer * Kurhausstraße – monument to F. Müller; monolith with medallion, 1905, Stanislaus Cauer * Kurhausstraße 5 – house; plastered building on porphyry pedestal, about 1860, glazed oriel window 1911; built behind it, a brick building, 1891, architect Friedrich Metzger * Kurhausstraße 8 – Art Nouveau villa with Renaissance Revival motifs, 1903/1904, architect Hans Best * Kurhausstraße 12 – three-floor tenement, 1845/1846 * Kurhausstraße 13 – lordly four-floor Classicist shophouse, 1840/1841, architect H. T. Kaufmann,
tracery Tracery is an architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone ''bars'' or ''ribs'' of moulding. Most commonly, it refers to the stonework elements that support the ...
balcony A balcony (from it, balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor. Types The traditional Maltese balcony ...
1880s; in the yard one-floor plastered building, 1880/1881, architect August Heinke Jun. * Kurhausstraße 17 – former inn and bathhouse; three-floor Classicist three-wing complex; middle building 1833, extra floors and expansion early 1860s; in the yard plastered building from time of complex's building; at the end of the garden two-and-a-half-floor
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house, about 1860 * Kurhausstraße 21 – four-floor, two-part shophouse with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1850; bridge to the bathhouse 1911/1912 * Kurhausstraße 23 – bathhouse;
Baroque Revival The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptu ...
-Neoclassical four-wing complex with hip roofs, 1911/1912, architect Oscar Schütz,
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; three-floor middle building, two-floor wings, sculpture and reliefs by Ludwig Cauer * Kurhausstraße 28 – spa house; schloss-like four-wing complex, 1913, architect Emanuel von Seidl, Munich, three-floor expansion building, 1929, architect Roth, Darmstadt; spa park * Spa park (monumental zone) – laid out beginning in 1840,
English garden The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (french: Jardin à l'anglaise, it, Giardino all'inglese, german: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, pt, Jardim inglês, es, Jardín inglés), is a sty ...
with old buildings; therein spa house (see Kurhaustraße 28), before it round music pavilion, bronze figure of the "Grape Maid", Hanna Cauer, 1950; at the south point ''Elisabethenquelle'' ( spring): open pump room above the spring with flanking open-air steps and platform, 1880s * Lämmergasse 5 – two-part Late Baroque corner house, partly timber-frame, after 1689; characterises street's appearance * Lämmergasse 9/11 – shophouse, partly timber-frame, staircase tower, essentially from the 15th or 16th century, no. 9 has three floors * Lämmergasse 13 – solid building with mighty half-hip roof, possibly from the late 18th century * Lämmergasse 26 – corner shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), possibly from the 18th century, makeover 1890; cellar before 1689 * Lämmergasse 28 – spacious, essentially Baroque house, partly timber-frame (plastered), marked 1779, conversion 1861; cellar before 1689 * Lämmergasse 34 – corner house, plastered timber-frame building, about or soon after 1700; characterises street's appearance * Lauergasse 5 – two-and-a-half-floor, plastered timber-frame house, partly slated, late 18th or early 19th century; part of the so-called Little Venice (''Kleines Venedig'') * Lauergasse 9 – picturesque, plastered timber-frame house, 19th century * Lauergasse 11 – house,
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
brick building, 1885, architect Eduard Zimmermann * Magister-Faust-Gasse – ''Fischerpforte'' ("Fishermen's Gate"); part of the New Town fortifications: riverbank fortification with an opening to the Ellerbach * Magister-Faust-Gasse 2 – three-floor three-window house, mid 19th century; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 4 – three-floor four-window house, plastered timber-frame building, later 18th century; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 6 – three-floor three-window house, plastered timber-frame building, late 18th century, front wings 1890; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 9 – three-floor house on irregular footprint, partly timber-frame, early 19th century * Magister-Faust-Gasse 15/17 – pair of semi-detached houses, plastered timber-frame buildings, possibly from the 18th century, no. 17 partly altered in 1894; characterises street's appearance * Magister-Faust-Gasse 21 – terraced house, partly timber-frame (plastered), early 19th century * Magister-Faust-Gasse 24 – former town barrel gauge; house, plastered timber-frame building, half-hip roof, 18th century; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 25 – former ''Elt'scher Hof'' (estate); spacious house, Baroque building with half-hip roof over old ( mediaeval?) cellar, gateway 1821, marked 1604 (?) * Magister-Faust-Gasse 28 – three-floor terraced house, partly timber-frame (plastered), about 1800 with older parts, shop built in, 1896; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 30 – three-floor terraced house, partly timber-frame (plastered), about 1800; part of the so-called Little Venice * Magister-Faust-Gasse 46 – three-floor plastered building, ground floor solid, both upper floors plastered
timber framing Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
* Magister-Faust-Gasse 47 – so-called ''Dr.-Faust-Haus''; shophouse, open timber framing possibly from 1764, half-hip roof, cellar marked 1590 * Magister-Faust-Gasse 48 – three-floor plastered timber-frame building with solid ground floor * Mannheimer Straße – ''Alte Nahebrücke'' ("Old Nahe Bridge"); crosses the Nahe, the Badewörth (bathing island) and the millpond, about 1300, altered several times * Mannheimer Straße, graveyard (monumental zone) – laid out in 1827, since 1918 expanded several times, area divided into rectangular parcels with specially fenced-in graveyards of honour and special memorial places; old graveyard chapel, Historicized octagonal building, after 1843; Puricelli Chapel, Gothic Revival red-
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-block building with appointments from time of building, 1895, architect Ludwig Becker; many tombs, some created by the sculptor family Cauer, latter half of the 19th century and earlier half of the 20th century * Mannheimer Straße 6 – ''Dienheimer Hof'' (estate);
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...
building, 1563, three-floor Classicist addition, early 19th century (?) * Mannheimer Straße 12 – "''Gottschalk des Juden Haus''" ("Gottschalk the Jew's House"); three-floor corner shophouse, building complex in several parts, partly from the 16th century, joined together in the 18th century by building further floors * Mannheimer Straße 15 – stately three-floor shophouse, Classicist quarrystone building with hip roof, 1884 * Mannheimer Straße 16 – three-floor shophouse, Late Baroque
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
building; cellar before 1689 * Mannheimer Straße 17 – three-floor shophouse, plastered timber-frame building with hip roof, 18th century, shop built in about 1897; cellar before 1689 * Mannheimer Straße 19 – three-floor shophouse, plastered timber-frame building with mansard roof, 18th century, shop built in, 1904 * Mannheimer Straße 21 – three-and-a-half-floor shophouse, Late Classicist motifs, possibly from the third fourth of the 19th century * Mannheimer Straße 22 – three-floor shophouse, plastered timber-frame building with hip roof, marked 1764 and 1864 (Classicist conversion); two cellars before 1689 * Mannheimer Straße 27 – three-floor corner shophouse, plastered timber-frame building, 18th century; cellar before 1689 * Mannheimer Straße 29 – three-floor corner shophouse, Late Baroque, board-clad timber-frame building * Mannheimer Straße 32, 34, 36 – no. 32 three-floor shophouse, timber-frame building, 17th century (?), no. 34 plastered timber-frame building, no. 36 partly timber-frame * Mannheimer Straße 35 – ''Löwenapotheke'' (pharmacy), shophouse, imposing Renaissance Revival building, 1853, upper floor with hip roof 1950, architect Max Weber * Mannheimer Straße 39 and 41 – four-floor shophouses, timber-frame buildings, late 18th century, made over in the
Classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
style in the 19th century and plastered, no. 39 over cellar before 1689; characterises street's appearance * In Mannheimer Straße 40 – three-floor Late Gothic spiral staircase * Mannheimer Straße 43 – bridge house; three-floor corner shophouse, partly
marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...
, 1849; part of the so-called Little Venice (''Kleines Venedig'') * Mannheimer Straße 45 – bridge house; three-floor terrace shophouse, plastered timber-frame building with mansard roof, 18th or 19th century * Mannheimer Straße 47 – three-floor corner shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), hip roof, 18th century * Mannheimer Straße 49 – three-floor corner shophouse, clinker brick building, 1905, architects Henke & Sohn * Mannheimer Straße 52 and 54 – four-floor Late Baroque shophouses, partly timber-frame (plastered), latter half of the 18th century; part of the so-called Little Venice * Mannheimer Straße 53/55 – three-floor Late Baroque pair of semi-detached houses, 18th century, Classicist makeover in the 19th century; cellar possibly from about 1500 * Mannheimer Straße 56 – three-floor terrace shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), latter half of the 18th century, addition on corbels; part of the so-called Little Venice * Mannheimer Straße 60 – three-floor shophouse, plastered timber-frame building with hip roof, 18th century; older cellar * Mannheimer Straße 62 – biaxial shophouse, partly timber-frame, marked 1671, mansard roof 18th century * Mannheimer Straße 64 – four-floor shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), latter half of the 18th century; cellar before 1689 * Mannheimer Straße 66 – three-floor plastered timber-frame buildings with mansard roofs, conversion in the 19th and 20th centuries * Mannheimer Straße 68 – four-floor
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house (sided), 18th century * Mannheimer Straße 69/71 – bridge house, building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame plastered and slated, essentially before 1618; built behind it, four-floor cross-building with
crow-stepped gable A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in ...
s, 1933 and years following, architect Fr. K. Rheinstädter * Mannheimer Straße 77, Mühlenstraße 2 – three-floor shophouse, partly decorative timber framing, about 1600, mansard roof about 1700; Mühlenstraße 2 from the same time * Mannheimer Straße 78 – three-floor terrace shophouse, possibly after 1689,
clinker brick Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shin ...
façade 1895, architect Fr. K. Rheinstädter; older cellar * Mannheimer Straße 88, Kurhausstraße 1 – former ''Schwanenapotheke'' (pharmacy); two- and three-floor shophouse, sophisticated
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
building, 1903, architect Hans Best * Mannheimer Straße 90 – bridge house; shophouse with mansard roof, 1829 * Mannheimer Straße 91 – four-floor shophouse, sophisticated Late Historicist plastered building, 1903, architect Kaspar Bauer; older cellar * Mannheimer Straße 92 – bridge house; two- and four-floor plastered building, essentially from 1595, expansion in 1867, makeover in 1890, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Mannheimer Straße 94 – bridge house; three-floor timber-frame building, plastered and slated, 1609 * Mannheimer Straße 96 – bridge house; broadly mounted plastered timber-frame building, 1612 * Mannheimer Straße 99 – terrace shophouse, Baroque building with mansard roof, 18th century * Mannheimer Straße 101 – terrace shophouse, Baroque building with mansard roof, 18th century * At Mannheimer Straße 114 – bronze insignia with
bust Bust commonly refers to: * A woman's breasts * Bust (sculpture), of head and shoulders * An arrest Bust may also refer to: Places * Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in France *Lashkargah, Afghanistan, known as Bust historically Media * ''Bust'' (magazin ...
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), ''Graf'' (count), later elevated to ''Fürst'' (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian '' Generalfeldmarschall'' (field marshal). He earne ...
* Mannheimer Straße 128 – ''Einhornapotheke'' (pharmacy); three-floor brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1883, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Mannheimer Straße 130 – four-floor corner shophouse, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1905/1906, architect Hans Best * Mannheimer Straße 198/198a – axially symmetrical pair of semi-detached shophouses, Gründerzeit clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, 1896/1897, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Mannheimer Straße 209 – corner house, brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1889/1890, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Mannheimer Straße 230 – three-floor corner shophouse, brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1898, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Mannheimer Straße 232/232a – three-floor house, clinker brick building with mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1900/1901, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Mannheimer Straße 240 – three-floor terraced house, clinker brick building, Renaissance Revival, 1899, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Mannheimer Straße 254 – villalike house, building with mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, 1900 architect possibly Hermann Herter * Mannheimer Straße 256 – villalike house, building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1902/1903, architect Hermann Herter * Manteuffelstraße 1, Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Straße 2 – pair of semi-detached houses with half-hip roof, Classicist, Heimatstil and
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, 1921/1922, architect Wilhelm Koban, Darmstadt * Manteuffelstraße 3 – lordly villa,
Baroque Revival The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptu ...
building with hip roof, 1925/1926, architect Richard Starig; templelike garage, garden hut * Mathildenstraße 1 – two-and-a-half-floor corner house, brick building with plastered surfaces, 1903, architects August Henke & Sohn; stable, one-floor building with hip roof, 1904 * Mathildenstraße 4, 6, 8, 10 (monumental zone) – tenements, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1904, architects August Henke & Sohn * Matthäushof 2 – former Herf winegrowing estate; corner building with mansard roof, about 1780; at the south risalto fragments of the previous, late mediaeval building * Metzgergasse 12 – essentially Baroque pair of semi-detached houses, partly timber-frame (plastered), conversion about 1800 * Metzgergasse 16 – house, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, 17th or 18th century * Mittlerer Flurweg 2/4 – pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof,
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, 1925, architect Düttermann * Mittlerer Flurweg 6/8 – pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1925, architect Düttermann * Mittlerer Flurweg 18/20 – pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1925, architect Düttermann * Mittlerer Flurweg 30/32, Rheinstraße 16 – long corner house with hip roof, 1930/1931, architect Karl Heep * Moltkestraße 3 – villa, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1913/1914, architect Hans Best, Neoclassical front wings 1939 * Moltkestraße 6 – villa with hip roof, outdoor staircase, 1914/1915, architect Willibald Hamburger * Mühlenstraße 5 – three-floor shophouse, Late Historicist two-wing access way, 1881/1882, architect R. Wagner * Mühlenstraße 7 – shophouse, apparently essentially from about 1600, shop built in in mid 19th century * Mühlenstraße 8 – three-floor shophouse, partly timber-frame, (plastered), 18th century * Mühlenstraße 10 – long house-
inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...
, conversion with Neoclassical motifs, 1897, Architects Brothers Lang * Mühlenstraße 11 – long shophouse, possibly from about 1800, shops built in in 19th century * Mühlenstraße 21 – former ''Mehlwaage'' ("Flour Scales"); building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame (plastered), mid 18th century * Mühlenstraße 23/25, 32/34 – former ''Tress'sche Mühle'' (mill); three-floor building complex, marked 1816, partly dismantled 1898/1899, conversion 1942/1943, architect Max Weber * Mühlenstraße 33 – three-window house, brick building, latter half of the 19th century * Mühlenstraße 37 – former
Reichsbank The ''Reichsbank'' (; 'Bank of the Reich, Bank of the Realm') was the central bank of the German Reich from 1876 until 1945. History until 1933 The Reichsbank was founded on 1 January 1876, shortly after the establishment of the German Empi ...
; three-floor corner building, representative Baroquified
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-block building with hipped mansard roof, 1901/1902, architects Curjel & Moser,
Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
* Mühlenstraße 78 – Brothers Holz's former furniture factory and cabinetmaker's workshop; spacious three-floor brick building with hip roof, about 1880 * Mühlenstraße 84 – sophisticated brick building, Renaissance Revival, 1891/1892, architect Philipp Hassinger * Nachtigallenweg 2 – ''Hotel Quellenhof''; three-part building with hip roof with three-floor middle part, 1912/1913, architect Hugo Völker * Neufelder Weg 65 – villa, artificial-stone-framed building with hip roof, 1930/1931, architect Hans Best & Co * Neufelder Weg 67 – villalike house on L-shaped footprint, hip roof, 1920s * Neufelder Weg 79 – imposing villa with hip roof, 1929, architect Hans Best * Neufelder Weg 9/11, 13/15, 17/19 (monumental zone) – mirror-image pairs of semi-detached bungalows with hip roofs, in front gardens, 1927/1928, architect Martin Au * Obere Flotz 4, 6–29, Mittlerer Flurweg 27, 34, Waldemarstraße 51 (monumental zone) – residential buildings built in two building sections, typical for the time, with front gardens and yards; three varied type buildings with Historicized and Heimatstil motifs, 1926/1927, architect Jean Rheinstädter; blocklike, ornamentally framed, major residential buildings, 1929/1930, architect Martin Au * Oligsberg 5, 6, 11/12, Mittlerer Flurweg 10/12, 14/16, Waldemarstraße 29/31, 33/35 (monumental zone) – residential development for officers of the French
occupation Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, th ...
; five pairs of
semi-detached A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single family duplex dwelling house that shares one common wall with the next house. The name distinguishes this style of house from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced hou ...
houses and two fully detached houses arranged symmetrically around a grassy area, Artificial-stone-framed buildings with hip roofs, entrance risalti with
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, gardens, 1912, architect Wilhelm Koban, Darmstadt * Oranienpark (monumental zone) – almost square park within Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, Salinenstraße, Oranienstraße and Weinkauffstraße; laid out in two terraces in 1934: upper terrace in forms of the
French Baroque French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ...
, lower terrace as landscape park; former
watertower A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. Water towers often operate in conjunc ...
, Classicist plastered building, about 1830; warriors' memorial 1870/1871, Corinthian column with round shield; bronze figure of a "''Schwebende Göttin''" ("Floating Goddess"), H. Cauer, 1939 * Oranienstraße 3 – spacious three-floor house with addition on the back, Classicist motifs, 1876/1877, architect J. Lang * Oranienstraße 4a – Gründerzeit villa, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, 1903/1904, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 7, Salinenstraße 75 – three-floor pair of semi-detached villas with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1902/1903, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 10/12 – villalike pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof, Art Nouveau motifs, 1905/1906, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 13/15 – villalike pair of semi-detached houses, clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, 1903/1904, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 14 – elaborate villa resembling a country house, 1906, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 17 – villalike house with hip roof, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1905/1906, architect Peter Kreuz * Oranienstraße 19 – villalike house with odd-shaped roofscape, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1904/1905, architect Peter Kreuz (?) * Pestalozzistraße 4, 6, 8 – one-floor buildings with mansard roofs, 1925/1926, architect Karl Heep * Pestalozzistraße 5 – one-floor villa, partly hipped mansard roof, 1926/1927, architect Martin Au * Pestalozzistraße 9 – villalike house with hip roof, 1926, architect Peter Riedle * "''Pfeffermühlchen''" ("Little Peppermill") – Part of the town fortifications on the Nahe's bank; the pedestal of the ''Stumpfer Turm'' ("Stub Tower") at the point where the Ellerbach empties into the Nahe walled up in 1845 and Baroquified roof cap added * Pfingstwiese 7/7a – house with wine cellar, brick building with hip roof, 1906/1907, architect C. W. Kron * Philippstraße 3 – two-and-a-half-floor corner house, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1900/01, Architects Brothers Lang * Philippstraße 5 – corner house, yellow clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1895/1896, Architects Brothers Lang * Philippstraße 6 – lordly villa with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1900/1901 * Philippstraße 8 – villalike building with hipped mansard roof, corner tower with
loggia In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...
, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1900/1901, architect Heinrich Müller * Philippstraße 9 – house, clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1906/1907, architect Friedrich Metzger * Philippstraße 10 – villalike house, sophisticated building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, marked 1902, architect possibly Heinrich Müller * Planiger Straße 4 – primary school; Late Classicist porphyry-block building with hip roof, 1870 * Planiger Straße 15/15a – three-floor
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed plastered buildings, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1908/1909, architect Kaspar Bauer; no. 15 with towerlike oriel window, 15a with middle risalto; characterises square's appearance * Planiger Straße 27 – two-and-a-half-floor corner shophouse with wine cellar buildings, clinker brick building with hip roof, 1896/1897, architect August Henke * Planiger Straße 147 – Seitz-Ensinger-Noll-Maschinenbau AG's factory complex; sophisticated three-and-a-half-floor Neoclassical building with hip roof, 1911, architect Hans Best, expansion in 1912; one-floor building with
saw-tooth roof A saw-tooth roof is a roof comprising a series of ridges with dual pitches either side. The steeper surfaces are glazed and face away from the equator to shield workers and machinery from direct sunlight. This kind of roof admits natural light ...
, 1928/1929, architect Erwin Hahn * Planiger Straße 69, 71/73, 75/77 (monumental zone) – small residential development of two-and-a-half- and three-and-a-half-floor multi-family dwellings, brick buildings with gable risalti, 1880–1895, architect Johann Au * Poststraße 7 – former town scrivener's office; three-floor Renaissance building, partly decorative
timber framing Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, half-hip roof, 1540; shop built in and plastered façade 19th century * Poststraße 8 – spacious shophouse; three-floor building with hip roof, partly timber-frame (plastered), shopping arcades, mid 19th century * Poststraße 11 – three-floor five-axis timber-frame building (plastered), partly solid, 18th century * Poststraße 15 – terrace shophouse; timber-frame building (plastered), possibly before end of the 18th century; cellar older * Poststraße 17 – three-floor, two-part shophouse, partly timber-frame; three-window house, mid 19th century, conversion and expansion in 1899/1900, architect Hans Best; cellar older * Poststraße 21 – former castle house "''Zum Braunshorn''"; three-floor building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame (plastered), essentially about 1573 (stairway thus marked), further floors and renovation possibly in the 18th century * Priegerpromenade 1 – representative
Historicist Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...
villa with hip roof, marked 1895/1896, architect Wilhelm Jost,
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* Priegerpromenade 3 – spacious Art Nouveau villa with motifs from castle architecture, 1906/1907, architect Peter Kreuz * Priegerpromenade 7 – lordly villa,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
and Art Nouveau motifs, twin-tower-gateway complex, 1906/1907, architect Hans Best * Priegerpromenade 9 – lordly villa resembling a country house, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1905, architect Hans Best * Priegerpromenade 17 – former "''Logier- und Badehaus''" ("Lodging and Bathing House"); lordly three-and-a-half-floor Neoclassical building with hip roof, about 1870, architect Ludwig Bohnstedt * Priegerpromenade 21 – ''Villa Elisa'', imposing two-and-a-half-floor plastered building on asymmetrical footprint, staircase tower, about 1870 * Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Straße 4 – villa, large-size divided building with hip roof, 1916/1917, architect Willibald Hamburger * Raugrafenstraße 2 – villa, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Wolfgang Goecke * Raugrafenstraße 4 – small villa, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Paul Gans * Reitschule 12 – house with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1903/1904, architect Jacob Karst * Reitschule 14 – villalike house with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1903, architect Jacob Karst * Reitschule 16 – spacious villa with hip roof and rooftop tower, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1903, architect Jacob Karst * Reitschule 17/19 – pair of semi-detached houses in country house style, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1898, architect Jacob Karst * Reitschule 21 – house, brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1901, architect Jacob Karst * Rheingrafenstraße – so-called ''Kuhtempel'' ("Cow Temple"), Classicist lookout pavilion, shortly before 1840 * Rheingrafenstraße 1 – sculptor family Cauer's house, Classicist plastered building, 1839, small studio building, 1901, architect Jacob Karst * Rheingrafenstraße 1a – house, Renaissance Revival building, 1901/1902, architect Jean Rheinstädter * Rheingrafenstraße 2 – former district building office; villalike official building, Late Historicist building with hipped mansard roof, 1905/1906, architect Jacob Damm * Rheingrafenstraße 3 – sophisticated house with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1903/1904, Architects Brothers Lang * Rheingrafenstraße 5 – sophisticated corner house, brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1895, Architects Brothers Lang * Rheingrafenstraße 15 – Gründerzeit villa, brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, marked 1889, architect Philipp Hassinger; wine cellar building from same time * Rheingrafenstraße 19/19a – plastered buildings, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, segmented hip roof, 1900/1901, architect Kaspar Bauer * Rheingrafenstraße 27, Graf-Siegfried-Straße 1/3 – three-house block with officers' dwellings, 1912/1913, architect Wilhelm Koban, Darmstadt * Rheingrafenstraße 34 – lordly villa with hipped mansard roof and corner tower, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1902, architect Jacob Metzger * Rheingrafenstraße 35 – lordly villa, corner tower with tented roof, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1903/1904, architect Hans Best; characterises street's appearance * Rheingrafenstraße 36 – villa in country house style, 1908/1909, architect Hans Best * Rheingrafenstraße 37 – representative villa in country house style, one-floor plastered building with roof expanded into two floors, 1905/1906, architect Hans Weszkalnys, Saarbrücken * Rheingrafenstraße 38 – villa resembling a country house, spacious plastered building with gable and hip roof, 1921, architect Alexander Ackermann * Rheingrafenstraße 46 – villa with hip roof, timber framing with clinker brick, 1935, architect
Paul Schmitthenner Paul Schmitthenner (born Lauterburg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany 15 December 1884 – 11 November 1972) was a German architect, city planner and Professor at the University of Stuttgart. During Nazi Germany, Schmitthenner was one of Adolf Hi ...
, Stuttgart * Ringstraße 82/84/86 and 88/90/92 – two groups of two-and-a-half-floor houses, 1898/1899, architects Philipp and Jean Hassinger, two-colour brick buildings on porphyry pedestals * Ringstraße 94/96 – pair of semi-detached houses, clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival, marked 1899, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Ringstraße 112 – primary school and
Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...
; three-floor building with mansard roof,
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, 1926 and years following, architect Willibald Hamburger; caretaker's house from time of building * Ringstraße 102/104, 106/108/110, Gustav-Pfarrius-Str. 14,17 and Jean-Winckler-Str. 2 (monumental zone) – whole complex of buildings; two like-shaped groups of houses, buildings with hip roofs joined by three-floor staircase towers, 1926/1927, architect Hugo Völker * Ringstraße 58, Graf-Friedrich-Straße15, Waldemarstraße 24,
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Deaconry institutions (monumental zone) – building complex in the park put together beginning in 1897, Gothicized sandstone and brick buildings (first building section), architect Friedrich Langenbach, Barmen; 1912–1954 matching additional buildings, architect Willibald Hamburger * Römerstraße 1 – three-floor corner shophouse, sophisticated Gründerzeit building, marked 1905 * Römerstraße 1a – narrow three-floor Art Nouveau building, about 1900 * Röntgenstraße 6 – villa with hipped mansard roof, 1926/1927, architect Karl Heep * Röntgenstraße 16 – house with gable or mansard roof, barge-rafter gable, 1907/1908, architect Gustav Ziemer,
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* Röntgenstraße 20, Gustav-Pfarrius-Straße 30 – pair of semi-detached houses; building with hip roof on brick pedestal, 1935, architect Karl Schneider * Röntgenstraße 22/24 – pair of semi-detached houses; building with hip roof with slate-clad corner oriels, 1927/1928, architect Richard Starig * Röntgenstraße 25, 27, 29, 31 – group of buildings made up of four small two-floor single-family houses, buildings with hip roofs with gable risalti, 1925/1926, architect Hugo Völker * Röntgenstraße 33 – villalike house, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1926/1927, architect Conrad Schneider; characterises street's appearance * Roonstraße 3 – villa with mansardlike stepped hip roof, 1916/1917, architect Philipp Hassinger * Rosengarten 2 –
Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...
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Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
brick building with hip roofs, 1898 and years following, architect Friedrich Hartmann * Roseninsel (monumental zone) – spa-related greenspace on the Nahe's bank along Priegerpromenade; pavilion above the disused ''Oranienquelle'' ( spring), 1916; so-called ''Milchhäuschen'' ("Little Milk House"), crenellated turret, 19th century; Bismarck Monument, Hugo Cauer, 1897 (moved from the Kornmarkt after 1945); so-called "''Durstgruppe''" ("Thirst Group"), Ludwig Cauer, 1892 * Roßstraße 6 – former "''Maison Bold''"; shophouse, Classicist plastered building, about 1850 * Roßstraße 25 – Gründerzeit corner house, building with hip roof and
knee wall A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book ''A Visual Dictionary of Architecture'', Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall ...
, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1881/1882, architect J. Schaeffer; cellar about 1600 * Roßstraße 33 – former
inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommo ...
; three-floor plastered building with imitation-ancient ornament, about 1860 * Roßstraße 35 – three-floor Classicistically structured house, about 1860 * Rüdesheimer Straße 11 – villa with knee wall, country house style, soon after 1900 * Rüdesheimer Straße 21 – sophisticatedly structured house, about 1850 * Rüdesheimer Straße 38 – house, Classicistically structured brick building, early 1870s * Rüdesheimer Straße 46, 48 and 50 – three-part corner shophouse,
Historicist Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...
brick building with mansard roof, 1906/1907, architect Fritz Wagner * Rüdesheimer Straße 52 – corner shophouse, Historicist brick building with mansard roof, 1907, architect Joseph Reuther * Rüdesheimer Straße 58 – Gründerzeit corner house, brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1891/1892, architect Karl Keller * Rüdesheimer Straße 60–68 (even numbers) – ''Landes-Lehr- and Versuchsanstalt für Weinbau, Gartenbau and Landwirtschaft'' ("State Teaching and Experimental Institute for Winegrowing, Gardening and Agriculture"); no. 68 brick building with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1900, in the garden warriors' memorial 1914/1918; wine cellar building from the same time and in the same style; packing and shipping house, about 1920; no. 62 clinker brick building, 1896; no. 60 Baroquified building with mansard roof, 1910/1911 * Rüdesheimer Straße 74 – Historicized terraced house with gateway, brick building with mansard roof, 1903/1904, architect Joseph Buther * Rüdesheimer Straße 86 – house, about 1860; winepress house, 1888, architect Philipp Hassinger; worker's house with stable, 1893, architect Johann Henke * Rüdesheimer Straße 87 – villa and wine cellar building, lordly plastered building with hip roofs, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1894/1895, architect Friedrich Metzger * Rüdesheimer Straße 95–127 (odd numbers) (monumental zone) – semicircular building complex with gardens,
spire light Spire light ( Fr. ''lucarne''), the term given to the windows in a spire which are found in all periods of English Gothic architecture, and in French spires form a very important feature in the composition. There is an early example in the spire ...
gable two floors tall in the middle, lobbies with polygonal oriels, 1924 and years following, architect Hugo Völker * Saline Karlshalle 3, 4, 6, 7 – Baroque bungalows, plastered
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
buildings (except no. 4), no. 7 marked 1732 * Saline Karlshalle 8 – former ''Sudhaus'' ("Boiling House"); spacious building with mansard roof, 18th century * Saline Karlshalle 12 – well house; plastered building with freestanding stairway, 1908, architect Hans Best * Saline Theodorshalle 28 – former children's home; representative building with hipped mansard roof, Classicist motifs, 1911, architect Hans Best * Salinenstraße – Salinenbrücke ("Saltworks Bridge"); six-arch
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-block bridge, bridge across the Nahe between Salinenstraße and Theodorshalle saltworks, 1890 * Salinenstraße 43 – two-and-a-half-floor villalike house, brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1896/1897, architect August Henke * Salinenstraße 45 – two-and-a-half-floor house, porphyry building with hip roof, about 1860, side building with arcade and barge-rafter gable, 1897, architects Brothers Lang * Before Salinenstraße 47/49 – five
armorial A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th centu ...
tablets, marked 1891/1892, Cauer workshop * Salinenstraße 53 – two-and-a-half-floor corner shophouse, Late Classicist building with hip roof, about 1860 * Salinenstraße 57a – corner house, elaborately structured Late Historicist building with mansard roof, 1898, architect Rheinstädter * Salinenstraße 57 – Late Classicist plastered building, 1851, architect August Henke Jun. * Salinenstraße 60 – two-and-a-half-floor house, clinker brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1889, architect Philipp Hassinger; one-and-a-half-floor wine cellar building; front-garden fencing and segmented gateway, 1919, as well as dwelling and office building in the yard, 1921/1922, architect Alexander Ackermann * Salinenstraße 63 – former "Hotel Kriegelstein"; three-floor Classicist building with hip roof, joining onto the back, bathing wing, 1852/1853, architect Karst * Salinenstraße 68 – two-and-a-half-floor house, Classicist building with hip roof, about 1870, side building 1904, architects Henke & Sohn * Salinenstraße 69 – lordly villa with hip roof, Renaissance and Classicist motifs, about 1865 * Salinenstraße 72 – sophisticated two-and-a-half-floor corner house, Neoclassical plastered building, about 1870 * Salinenstraße 74/76 – pair of semi-detached houses,
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1894/1895, architect Jean Henke * Salinenstraße 82 – villalike house with hip roof, 1921/1922, architect Vorbius * Salinenstraße 84 – one-floor villa with hip roof, Classicist motifs, 1925/1926, architect Hans Best * Salinenstraße 90 – lordly villa with hip roof with corner pavilions, 1921/1922, architect Hans Best * Salinenstraße 92/94, Moltkestraße 8 – sophisticated three-wing building with hip roof,
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
motifs, 1921/1922, architect Alexander Ackermann * Salinenstraße 95 – Gründerzeit bungalow, clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
motifs, 1895, architect Johann Stanger * Salinenstraße 113/115 – pair of semi-detached houses, spire light gable with half-hips, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1907/1908, architect Fritz Wagner * Salinenstraße 114/116 – Doppelvilla, langgestreckter building with hip roof, 1921/1922, architect Hans Best * Salinenstraße 117 – artificial-stone-framed cube-shaped building with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1927/1928, architects Hans Best & Co. * Salinenstraße 118 – house with winepress house, clinker brick building with pyramidal roof, 1898/1899, architect Himmler * Salinenstraße 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131 (monumental zone) – seven-house group; houses with forward eaves but forward-gabled lobbies, Art Deco motifs, 1921/1922, architect Paul Gans * Salinental – includes the Karlshalle and Theodorshalle saltworks east of Salinenstraße (''
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'' 48) in the town's southwest;
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no. 6, 18th century; monument to K. Altenkirch, Ludwig Thormalen, 1934 * Schloßstraße 1 – lordly villa, building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1862, architect C. Conradi * Schloßstraße 2a – Art Deco villa with hipped mansard roof, 1928/1929, architect Paul Gans * Schloßstraße 4 – cube-shaped building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, side building, 1879/1880, architect J. Schaeffer * Schloßstraße 5 – guesthouse, three-floor cube-shaped building with hip roof,
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
side building about 1850 * Schöffenstraße 3 – two-and-a-half-floor house, brick building, 1892, architect August Henke * Schöne Aussicht 1 – residential building, long building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Wolfgang Goecke * Schöne Aussicht 3/5/7/9 – long building with hip roof and corner oriels, 1924/1925, architect Gruben * Schöne Aussicht 10/12, Dr.-Geisenheyner-Straße 5 – houses picturesquely staggered with each other, 1926/1927, architect Hans Best & Co. * Schöne Aussicht 11–21 – long residential building with hip roof, 1924/1925, architect Gruben * Schöne Aussicht 1–25 (odd numbers), 10–16 (even numbers), Dr.-Geisenheyner Straße 1, 3, 5, 2–12 (even numbers) as well as Winzenheimer Straße 23 and 25 (monumental zone) – workers' housing development, craftsmen and
white-collar worker A white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, desk, managerial, or administrative work. White-collar work may be performed in an office or other administrative setting. White-collar workers include job paths related to government, ...
s; pairs of semi-detached houses and terraced buildings joined together into dwelling units with hip or gable roofs in gardens, some with corner oriels or front wings, 1924–1927 under town building councillor Hugo Völker's leadership * Schuhgasse 1 – three-floor shophouse, plastered timber-frame building, possibly 18th century, shop built in 1881, architect Jacob Kossmann; cellar before 1689 * Schuhgasse 2 – three-floor shophouse, partly timber-frame (plastered), hip roof, possibly shortly after 1849 with Baroque parts; cellar before 1689 * Schuhgasse 3 – three-floor house, partly timber-frame (plastered), mansard roof, 18th century; cellar before 1689 * Schuhgasse 4 and 6 – two Classicist three-floor three-window houses, about 1850; under no. 4 cellar before 1689, no. 6
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
shop built in * Schuhgasse 5 – two-and-a-half-floor dwelling and wine cellar house, Gründerzeit clinker brick building, 1882/1883, architect Josef Pfeiffer; cellar before 1689 * Schuhgasse 7 – three-floor house, partly timber-frame (plastered), essentially from the 18th century, partly Classicist makeover 19th century; cellar older * Schuhgasse 8 – three-floor Late Classicist house, 1850; cellar older * Schuhgasse 9 – three-floor two-window house, plastered timber-frame building, about 1800 (?); cellar before 1689 * Schuhgasse 11 – stately three-floor house, partly timber-frame (plastered), about 1800 * Schuhgasse 13 – three-floor three-window house, about 1800 (?), partly Classicist makeover, about 1850; cellar before 1689 * Sigismundstraße 16/18 – pair of semi-detached houses with hipped mansard roof, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1907/1908, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Sigismundstraße 20/22 – pair of semi-detached bungalows, sandstone-framed brick building, 1908/1909, architect Wilhelm Metzger * Stromberger Straße 1/3 – villalike pair of semi-detached houses, brick building with hipped mansard roof and corner tower, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1907/1908, architect Anton Kullmann * Stromberger Straße 2 – Neoclassical villa with three-floor tower with
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figures, side building, Renaissance Revival watertower, early 1870s, architect Paul Wallot,
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* Stromberger Straße 4 – Gründerzeit villa, picturesquely grouped clinker brick building, 1879, architect Gustav F. Hartmann * Stromberger Straße 5/7 – villalike pair of semi-detached houses, brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1904, architect Anton Kullmann * Stromberger Straße 6 –
Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
villa, picturesquely grouped clinker brick building, partly timber-frame, 1879, architect Gustav F. Hartmann * Stromberger Straße 8 – Michel winegrowing estate; Gründerzeit villa, clinker brick building with odd-shaped roofscape, 1888, architect Jacob Karst * Stromberger Straße 9 – small villa made up of two structures thrust through each other at right angles, 1902/1903, architect Anton Kullmann * Stromberger Straße 10 – former "''Restaurationslokal''"; one-and-a-half-floor corner building with round arch openings, 1879, architect Josef Pfeiffer, side building given upper floors in 1911 and brought into line, architect Friedrich Metzger * Stromberger Straße 11 – villalike house made up of two structures standing at right angles to each other, 1902, architect Anton Kullmann * Stromberger Straße 12 – Gründerzeit villa, clinker brick building with hip roof, 1887, architect Jacob Kossmann, partial conversion 1924 * Stromberger Straße 15, 17, 19 – Paul Anheußer winegrowing estate; one-floor building with
pitched roof Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch(es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees its surface deviates from the horizontal. A flat roof has a pitch of zero in either insta ...
with two-floor side axes, 1888, architect Jacob Karst * Stromberger Straße 22 – house, clinker brick building with gable risalto, 1888, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Stromberger Straße 30 – villa, one-floor building with hipped mansard roof, 1924/1925, architect Anton Reiter * Sulzer Hof 2 – house, brick building with belltower, one-floor brick side building, 1892 * Viktoriastraße 3 – two-and-a-half-floor Gründerzeit corner house, 1883, architect R. Wagener * Viktoriastraße 4 – house; sandstone-framed plastered building, about 1870,
wrought-iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.08%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4%). It is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which give it a wood-like "grain" t ...
balcony about 1906; characterises street's appearance * Viktoriastraße 7 – Gründerzeit terraced house; two-and-a-half-floor sandstone-framed clinker brick building, 1879, architect R. Wagener * Viktoriastraße 9 – Gründerzeit corner shophouse, Neoclassical motifs, 1877, architect Johann Au * Viktoriastraße 11/13/15 – lordly palacelike group of three houses with three-floor middle building, hip roofs, 1878/1879, architect C. Conradi; characterises street's appearance * Viktoriastraße 18 – Gründerzeit house; building with hip roof with
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, Renaissance Revival, 1882, architect Josef Pfeiffer; characterises street's appearance * Viktoriastraße 19 – Gründerzeit terraced house, three-floor clinker brick building, 1882, architect August Henke * Viktoriastraße 22 – Gründerzeit terraced house, two-and-a-half-floor clinker brick building, 1888, architect August Henke * Viktoriastraße 23 – corner shophouse; two-and-a-half-floor brick building, Renaissance Revival motifs, 1878, architect Jean Jenke jr., shop and display window expansion 1888 * Viktoriastraße 24 – two-and-a-half-floor house; sandstone-framed clinker brick building, Renaissance Revival, 1894, architect Christian Zier * Viktoriastraße 26 – house, Classicistically structured clinker brick building, possibly from shortly before 1876 * Weinkauffstraße 2/4 – villalike pair of semi-detached houses on irregular footprint, 1901/1902, architect Hans Best * Weinkauffstraße 6 – Art Nouveau villa with hip roof, 1902/1903, architect Hans Best * Weinkauffstraße 8 – three-floor villa with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1921/1922, architect Alexander Ackermann * Weinkauffstraße 10 – one-and-a-half-floor villa, 1922/1923, architect Alexander Ackermann, mansard roof 1927 * Weyersstraße 3 – lordly villa with hip roof, 1925, architect Hermann Tesch, somewhat newer garden house * Weyersstraße 6 – villalike house with tented or mansard roof, 1920s * Weyersstraße 8 – house; cube-shaped building with hip roof, partly
Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
motifs, 1925/1926, architect Karl Heep * Wilhelmstraße – ''Wilhelmsbrücke''; bridge across the Nahe; three-arch red sandstone structure with two towers and expanded arcaded approach, 1905/1906, architect Hermann Billing,
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, reconstructed after 1945;
relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
in the "''Fischerturm''" (tower), 1932 by Ludwig Cauer * Wilhelmstraße 2 – former "''Brückenschänke''" inn; one-floor, pavilionlike commercial building, 1922, architect Otto Völker * Wilhelmstraße 48 – three-floor shophouse,
Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Wilhelmstraße 50 – three-floor shophouse, oriel window, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906, architect Heinrich Ruppert * Winzenheimer Straße 3/3a – mirror-image pair of semi-detached houses, sandstone-framed clinker brick building, 1898/1899, architect Anton Kullmann * Winzenheimer Straße 5 – two-and-a-half-floor villalike house, Late Gründerzeit sandstone-framed brick building, 1900, architect Anton Kullmann * Winzenheimer Straße 7 – spacious villalike house with side buildings, 1888/1889, architect Schott; brick building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival; characterises street's appearance * Winzenheimer Straße 12/14 – pair of semi-detached houses under influence of country house style and
New Objectivity The New Objectivity (in german: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the ''Kunsthalle'' in Mannheim, wh ...
, 1911, architect Rudolf Frey * Winzenheimer Straße 15 – one-and-a-half-floor villalike house, sandstone-framed clinker brick building, 1900, architect Josef Pfeiffer * Winzenheimer Straße 16 – two-and-a-half-floor villa resembling a country house with odd-shaped roofscape, 1909/1910, architect Hermann Tesch * Winzenheimer Straße 23 – corner house; building typical of the time with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Wolfgang Goecke * Winzenheimer Straße 25 – villa; one-floor building with hipped mansard roof, 1925, architect Richard Starig * Winzenheimer Straße 36 – villa; brick-framed building with hip roof, 1928, architect Max Weber (?) * Zwingel – ''Zwingelbrücke'', red sandstone mediaeval two-arch bridge across the Ellerbach lying between Zwingel and Lauergasse, 1277 * Zwingel – 30 m-long stretch of wall of the sovereign area (''Burgfrieden'') fortification between the ''Zwingelbrücke'' and the Kauzenburg * At Zwingel 4 –
barrel-vaulted A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are ...
cellar and skylight portal, marked 1755 * Zwingel 5 – main building of the former Tesch Brewery; three-floor building with pitched roof and clad timber framing, marked 1830 and 1832, from the solid ground floor entrance to three vaulted cellars in the Schlossberg * Zwingel 9 – three-floor
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house, partly plastered, on
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al footprint, 1880, architect Jacob Kossmann * Graveyard of Honour, Lohrer Wald, in town's western woods (monumental zone) – for the fallen of the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
on the German War Graves Commission's behalf; slated outer wall with open entrance hall, Classicist and Heimatstil motifs, 1952/1953, architect Robert Tischler, Munich, short sandstone crosses on burial ground laid out like a park * Hargesheimer Landstraße, ''Gutleuthof'' (monumental zone) – house, partly timber-frame, hipped mansard roof, carriage hall, stable-commercial building, about 1800 *
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graveyard, north of the Nahe towards Winzenheim (monumental zone) – funnel-shaped area laid out in 1661, expanded in 1919; on the northern, oldest part, mostly Baroque sandstone slabs, on the narrow burial ground south of the mortuary chapel (mid 19th century, expanded in 1894) sandstone slabs from the 19th century; Baroque Revival
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tablets from the destroyed synagogue * Schloss Rheingrafenstein – long building with hip roof, marked 1722, side building 19th century, in the gateway arch an armorial stone of the family Salm


Bosenheim

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parish church, Karl-Sack-Straße 4 – quire 14th century,
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with
ridge turret A ridge turret is a turret or small tower constructed over the ridge or apex between two or more sloping roofs of a building. It is usually built either as an architectural ornament for purely decorative purposes or else for the practical housing ...
, 1744; characterises street's appearance * Friedhofsweg 1 – ''Altes Schulhaus'' ("Old Schoolhouse"), one-floor plastered building, 1897 * Hackenheimer Straße 2 – three-sided estate; house, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, 1929 and older, barn door lintel marked 1567; characterises village's appearance * Hackenheimer Straße 6 – schoolhouse, representative building with hip roof, 1909 * Karl-Sack-Straße 2 – Evangelical rectory, Historicized plastered building, late 19th century; characterises street's appearance * Karl-Sack-Straße 3 –
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building, partly timber-frame (plastered), marked 1617 * Parkstraße 2 – estate of the winegrowing family Görz, hook-shaped estate; dwelling wing with barn, one-floor quarrystone building, 1826, administrator's house, partly shingled, 1927 * Rheinhessenstraße 35 – three-sided estate; house, partly timber-frame (plastered), marked 1835 * Rheinhessenstraße 43 – Baroque building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame (plastered), 18th century * Rheinhessenstraße 54 – house, partly timber-frame, Renaissance double window, marked 1587 * Rheinhessenstraße 58 – Baroque house, partly timber-frame, 18th century * Rheinhessenstraße 65 – three-sided estate, essentially possibly from the late 18th century; barn and house, partly timber-frame, stable building * Rheinhessenstraße 68 – former village hall, building with half-hip roof, 1732, expansion marked 1937 * Rheinhessenstraße 78 – house, partly timber-frame, 18th century


Ippesheim

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Christ Church (''Christuskirche''), Frankfurter Straße 2 – two-floor
aisleless church An aisleless church (german: Saalkirche) is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated fr ...
, small-block wallwork, 1892, architect C. Schwartze, Darmstadt * Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 1 – corner house, brick building, 1891, one-floor commercial building, 1888 * Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 4 – house, partly timber-frame, 18th century * Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 13 – house, partly timber-frame (partly plastered), 18th century * Falkensteinstraße 1 – corner house, partly timber-frame (partly plastered), possibly from the late 18th century, former barn, about 1900 * Frankfurter Straße 8 – one-and-a-half-floor house, yellow-brick building, shortly after 1900


Planig

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parish church, Am Ehrenmal 4 – late mediaeval plastered building, quire 1492, main space 1507; tower possibly high mediaeval, uppermost floor and
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1818, architect Friedrich Schneider; furnishings * Saint Gordianus's
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Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Gordianus''), Biebelsheimer Straße 4 – three-naved Romanesque pseudobasilica, quarrystone building, 1899/1900, architect Ludwig Becker; furnishings; characterises village's appearance * Village core, Kirchwinkelstraße and Dorfbrunnenstraße, Heinrich-Kreuz-Straße, Zentbrückenstraße, Dalbergstraße (monumental zone) – closed historical construction of villagelike character up to the 19th century including the late mediaeval Evangelical parish church, the Apfelsbach and the mixed gardens; mostly one-and-a-half-floor dwelling or estate houses, estate complexes of various types and sizes with ring of barns * Biebelsheimer Straße/corner of Winzerkeller – ''Heiligenhäuschen'' (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints), yellow-brick building with
crow-stepped gable A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in ...
s, 1892 * Mainzer Straße 55 – house, Baroque building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame * Mainzer Straße 63 – house,
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed brick building, 1900 * Mainzer Straße 85 – Baroque barn with half-hip roof, 18th century * Mainzer Straße 87 – house, Baroque building with half-hip roof * Rheinpfalzstraße 15 – villa, hewn-stone-framed brick building,
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motifs, 1899 *
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graveyard, on the northern town limit, Frenzenberg (monumental zone) – area with 13 gravestones from the 18th and late 19th centuries laid out no later than the 18th century, planted all round with hedges.


Winzenheim

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church (''Lukaskirche''), Hintere Grabenstraße 8 –
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, 1833/1834, architect Ludwig Behr *
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Church (''Kirche St. Peter''), Kirchstraße – high
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, about 1770, Late Gothic baptismal font, about 1500 * Kirchstraße 1 – so-called ''Hofgut Zweifel'' ("Doubt Estate"); Baroque estate complex, 1772; wings with hip roofs, one-floor cross-wing, gateway with
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Tourist attractions

The town of Bad Kreuznach is home to the following tourist attractions: * The Alte Nahebrücke, a bridge that crosses the River Nahe in central Bad Kreuznach along the ''Walkplatz'', dates from around 1300. It supports houses built from 1582 to 1612, and it is one of the few remaining bridges with buildings on it.Vogt, Werner (1988) ''Nahebrücke Bad Kreuznach''. In: ''Steinbrücken in Deutschland''. Düsseldorf: Beton-Verlag, pp. 394–398Zaschel, Anne (Universität Koblenz-Landau) (2014
Brückenhäuser auf der Alten Nahebrücke in Bad Kreuznach
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* The ''Pauluskirche'' (St. Paul's Church), where
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was married to
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on 19 June 1843. * The Kurhaus (built in 1913) is a hotel and bath house. The baths which give the town its special designation contain the
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, with supposedly curative properties. * The ''Dr-Faust-Haus'' (built in 1507) was the home of
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, the alchemist on whom the
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tale is said to be based. * Two
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s from a
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(about AD 250) are displayed in an on-site museum, the ''Römerhalle''. The tombstone of
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is also on view here. * Bad Kreuznach's wine is well known. * For 50 years Kreuznach was home to a
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base, Rose Barracks, including headquarters of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, including the 8th Signal Battalion, and the 8th Intelligence Co., and later the U.S. 1st Armored Division, which closed down in May 2001 File:Kreuznach Brueckenhaeuser 1900.jpg, Nahe bridge houses between 1890 and 1905 File:Bad-kreuznach-2.jpg, Nahe bridge houses in 2008 File:Bad-kreuznach-3.jpg, Mannheimerstraße


Music clubs and choirs

* ''Capella Nicolai'' * ''Chor Cantamus'' * ''Chor Mosaik'' * ''Chor Reinhard'' – newly founded men's Christian choir * ''Gospelchor Grenzenlos'' – "Borderless" Gospel choir * ''Kantorei der Pauluskirche'' – Paul's
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Church choir * ''Konzertgesellschaft Bad Kreuznach'' – concert company * ''Kreuznacher-Diakonie-Kantorei'' – diaconal choir * ''MC Harmonie 1845 Planig e.V.'' * ''Musikverein "Musikfreunde Winzenheim"'' e. V. – "Winzenheim Friends of Music" * ''Pop- und Gospelchor ReJOYSing, Planig''


Regular events

* Weekly market (''Wochenmarkt'') at the Kornmarkt: Tuesday and Friday, 0700 to 1300 * ''Altweiberfastnacht'' ("Old Women's Carnival") in the ''Narrenkäfig'' ("Fools' Cage") at the Kornmarkt: Thursday before Ash Wednesday * ''Kreuznacher Narrenfahrt'' ("Kreuznach Fools' Journey"): Saturday before Ash Wednesday * ''Nahetal-Turnier'', junior football tournament: at
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from Friday to Monday. * ''Drachenfest auf dem Kuhberg'' ("Dragon Festival on the Kuhberg"): mid to late April * ''Kreuznacher Hockey Club'' International Easter Hockey Tournament * ''Automobilsalon'': biggest
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exhibition in
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, last weekend in April * ''Eiermarktfest'' ("Egg Market Festival"): mid July * ''Kreuznacher Jahrmarkt'' ("Yearly Market"): (since 1810) third weekend in August (Friday to Tuesday) * ''Fischerstechen'' ("
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"): first weekend in September * ''RKV'' (Rowing and Canoeing Club) ''Herbst-Kanuslalom'' ("Autumn Canoe Slalom") in the Salinental: last weekend in September * ''Nikolausmarkt'' (" Saint Nicholas's Market"): until 2008 always at the Eiermarkt ("Egg Market"), future still unclear * ''Festival "marionettissimo"/Die Kunst des Spiels am Faden'' ("The Art of Playing on the Thread") in November at the ''Museum für PuppentheaterKultur'' * ''Französischer Markt'' ("French Market"): once a year, dealers from the French partner town
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hold a "French market" at the Kornmarkt; last held in 2007.


Town of Bad Kreuznach Cultural Prize

The ''Kulturpreis der Stadt Bad Kreuznach'' is a promotional prize awarded by the town of Bad Kreuznach each year in the categories of music,
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and literature on a rotational basis. A full list of prizewinners since the award's introduction can be seen at the link. In 2013, the prize was not awarded owing to cost-cutting measures.


Sport and leisure


Sport clubs

In Bad Kreuznach there are many clubs that can boast of successes at the national level. In
trampolining Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more co ...
and
whitewater slalom Canoe slalom (previously known as whitewater slalom) is a competitive sport with the aim to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging downstream or upstream gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible. It is one of th ...
, the town is a national stronghold, while it has also shown strength at the state level in shooting sports and
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. The biggest club is ''VfL 1848 Bad Kreuznach'', within which the first basketball department in any
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in Germany was founded in 1935. After the
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, too, the club produced many important personalities, among them several players at the national level. Moreover, the club's
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department is also of importance, having for a while been represented in the ''Damen-Bundesliga'' ("Ladies' National League"). The first field hockey department in a Bad Kreuznach sport club, however, was the ''Kreuznacher HC'', which made it to the semi-finals at the German Championship in 1960, and which to this day stages the Easter Hockey Tournament. In football, the town's most successful club is Eintracht Bad Kreuznach. The team played in, among other leagues, the Oberliga, when that was Germany's highest level in football, as well as, later, the Second ''Bundesliga''. The club that has won the most titles is MTV Bad Kreuznach, which in trampolining is among Germany's most successful clubs. Canoeing, in particular whitewater slalom, is practised by RKV Bad Kreuznach. Creuznacher RV has a long tradition in
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. Also important are the shooting sport clubs SG Bad Kreuznach 1847 and BSC Bad Kreuznach. In
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, the Sportfreunde Diakonie especially has been successful, particularly in bocce.


Town of Bad Kreuznach Sport Badge

The ''Sportplakette der Stadt Bad Kreuznach'' is an honour awarded by the town once each year to individual sportsmen or sportswomen, whole teams, worthy promoters of sports and worthy people whose jobs are linked to sports. With this award, the town also hopes to underscore its image as a sporting town in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Sport Badge is conferred upon sportsmen or sportswomen at three levels: * Gold ** Participation in a world championship or the
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** World Cup ranking 1st to 3rd place ** 1st to 3rd place at European championships * Silver ** World Cup ranking 4th or 5th place ** European championships 4th or 5th place ** 1st place at German championships * Bronze ** World Cup ranking 6th or 7th place ** Participation in a European championship ** 2nd or 3rd place at a German championship A promoter or person working in a sport-related field must be active in an unpaid capacity for at least 25 years to receive this award.


Economy and infrastructure


Winegrowing

Bad Kreuznach is characterised to a considerable extent by winegrowing, and with 777 ha of
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planted – 77%
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varieties and 23%
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 – it is the biggest winegrowing centre in the Nahe wine region and the seventh biggest in Rhineland-Palatinate.


Industry and trade

Bad Kreuznach has roughly 1,600 businesses with at least one employee, thereby offering 28,000 jobs, of which half are filled by
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who come into town from surrounding areas. The economic structure is thus characterised mainly by small and medium enterprises, but also some big businesses like the tire manufacturer Michelin, the machine builder KHS, the Meffert Farbwerke ( dyes, lacquers,
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s, protective coatings) and the Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH may be mentioned. In 2002, the tradition-rich Seitz-Filter-Werke was taken over by the US-based
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. Thus producing businesses are of great importance, and are especially well represented by the chemical industry (
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s, lacquers, dyes) and the optical industry as well as machine builders and automotive suppliers. Retail and wholesale dealers, as well as restaurants hold particular weight in the inner town, although in the last few years, the service sector, too, has been gaining in importance. The express road links to the
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bring Bad Kreuznach closer to
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. The town can also attract new investment with its
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areas.


Spa and tourism

The spa operations and the wellness tourism also hold a special place for the town as the world's oldest
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- brine spa and the
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centre for rheumatic care. Available in town are 2,498* beds for guests, which out of 449,756* overnight stays have seen 270,306* stays by guests in rehabilitation clinics. All together, the town was visited by 92,700 overnight guests (*as of 31 December 2010). Also available to the spa operations are six spa clinics, spa sanatoria, the thermal brine movement bath "Crucenia Thermen" with a salt grotto, a radon gallery,
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s in the Salinental (dale), the brine-fogger in the ''Kurpark'' (spa park) set up as open-air inhalatoria and the "Crucenia Gesundheitszentrum" ("Crucenia Health Centre") for ambulatory spa treatment. The indications for these treatments are for rheumatic complaints, changes in
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s due to
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, degenerative diseases of the spinal column and joints, women's complaints, illnesses of the
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, paediatric illnesses, vascular illnesses, non-infectious
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,
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dysfunctions, psychosomatic illnesses and eye complaints. After the noticeable decline in the spa business in the mid 1990s, there was a remodelling of the healing spa. At the ''Saunalandschaft'' bathhouse rose a " wellness temple" with 12 great
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s on an area of 4 000 m2, which receives roughly 80,000 visitors every year.


Hospitals and specialised clinics

In the hospital run by ''kreuznacher diakonie'' (397 beds) and the St. Marienwörth hospital (
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brothers), Bad Kreuznach has at its disposal two general hospitals that have available the most modern specialised departments for heart and intestinal disorders, and also strokes. In the spa zone, there is also the "Sana" Rhineland-Palatinate Rheumatic Centre, made up of a rheumatic hospital and a rehabilitation clinic, the ''Karl-Aschoff-Klinik''. Another rehabilitation clinic under private sponsorship is the ''Klinik Nahetal''. Also, there are the psychosomatic specialised clinic ''St.-Franziska-Stift'' and the rehabilitation and preventive clinic for children and youth, ''Viktoriastift''.


Transport

Given Bad Kreuznach's location in the narrow Nahe valley, all transport corridors run upstream parallel to the river. Moreover, the town is an important crossing point for all modes of transport.


Rail

From 1896 to 1936, there were the ''Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen'' ("Kreuznach Narrow-Gauge Railways"), a rural
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railway network. An original steam locomotive and its shed, which were moved from Winterburg, can be found today in nearby Bockenau. The ''Kreuznacher Straßen- und Vorortbahnen'' ("Kreuznach Tramways and Suburban Railways") ran not only a service within the town but also lines out into the surrounding area, to Bad Münster am Stein,
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and Sankt Johann. In 1953, the whole operation was shut down. Since the introduction of "Rhineland-Palatinate Timetabling" (''Rheinland-Pfalz-Takt'') in the mid 1990s, the train services other than the
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/ EC/ IC services have once again earned some importance. Besides the introduction of hourly timetabling, there has also been a marked expansion into the nighttime hours, with trains leaving for
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three hours later each day.
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is one of Rhineland-Palatinate's few V-shaped stations (called a ''Keilbahnhof'', or "wedge station", in the German terminology). Branching off the
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( BingenSaarbrücken) here is the railway line to Gau Algesheim. From Bingen am Rhein, Regionalbahn trains run by way of the
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, which branches off the Nahe Valley Railway in Bad Münster am Stein, to Kaiserslautern, reaching it in roughly 65 minutes. Running on the line to Saarbrücken and by way of Gau Algesheim and the
West Rhine Railway The West Rhine railway (German: ''Linke Rheinstrecke'', literally 'left (bank of the) Rhine route') is a famously picturesque, double-track electrified railway line running for 185 km from Cologne via Bonn, Koblenz, and Bingen to Mainz. It ...
to Mainz are
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and Regionalbahn trains. The travel time to Mainz lies between 25 and 40 minutes, and to Saarbrücken between 1 hour and 40 minutes and 2 hours and 20 minutes.


Road

Bad Kreuznach can be reached by car through the like-named interchange on the Autobahn A 61 as well as on ''
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n'' 41, 48 and 428. Except for ''Bundesstraße'' 48, all these roads skirt the inner town, while the Autobahn is roughly 12 km from the town centre. Local public transport is provided by a town bus network with services running at 15- or 30-minute intervals. There are seven bus routes run by ''Verkehrsgesellschaft Bad Kreuznach'' (VGK), which is owned by the company Rhenus Veniro. Furthermore, there is a great number of regional bus routes serving the nearby area, run by VGK and ''Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH'' (ORN). The routes run by the various carriers are all part of the ''Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund'' ("
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- Nahe Local Transport Association").


Media


Broadcast

* ''Antenne Bad Kreuznach'' radio station * ''domradio Studio-Nahe UKW 87,9'', clerical radio, ''domradio Köln'' repeater, local station on Saturday morning and church service broadcast on Sunday * ''Bürgerfernsehen Offener Kanal Bad Kreuznach'', public access television channel


Print media

* '' Allgemeine Zeitung Bad Kreuznach'': daily newspaper for Bad Kreuznach and area, owned by ''Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main''. circulation roughly 13,000. * ''Oeffentlicher Anzeiger'': daily newspaper for Bad Kreuznach and area, owned by ''Rhein-Zeitung'' (''Mittelrhein-Verlag''). circulation roughly 22,000. * Concerned with town history: ''Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter'', irregularly appearing insert in the ''Oeffentlichen Anzeiger'' * ''VorSicht – Das Rhein-Nahe-Journal''. circulation 15,000 * ''Lifetime'': town magazine for Bad Kreuznach * ''Wochenspiegel Bad Kreuznach'': weekly advertising flyer, owned by ''SW-Verlag''. * ''Kreuznacher Rundschau'', until 1 October 2010: ''Neue Kreuznacher Zeitung'': weekly advertising flyer. The first edition appeared in October 2006.


Online

* ''Kreuznach-Blog'' – current events and information about Bad Kreuznach from the region and the Internet. Since 1 June 2008. * ''Extrawelle'' – news for Bad Kreuznach


Education and research

Found in Bad Kreuznach are not only several primary schools, some of which offer "full-time school", but also secondary schools of all three types as well as vocational preparatory schools or combined vocational-academic schools such as ''Berufsfachschulen'', ''Berufsoberfachschulen'' and ''Technikerschulen'', which are housed at the
vocational school A vocational school is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education designed to provide vocational education or technical skills required to complete the task ...
s. The following schools are found in Bad Kreuznach:


Primary schools

* ''Dr.-Martin-Luther-King-Schule'' ("full-time school") * ''Grundschule Kleiststraße'' ("full-time school") * ''Grundschule Hofgartenstraße'' * ''Grundschule Planig'' * ''Grundschule Winzenheim''


Hauptschulen

* ''
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Ringstraße'' (with 10th school year, "full-time school") * ''Hauptschule am Römerkastell'' (with 10th school year)


Realschulen

* ''
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Heidenmauer'' ("full-time school")


Comprehensive schools

* ''IGS Bad Kreuznach'' ("full-time school")


Gymnasien

* ''Lina-Hilger- Gymnasium'' * ''Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer'' (with classical-language and mathematical-natural sciences branch) * ''Gymnasium am Römerkastell'' (with bilingual branch) * ''Berufliches Gymnasium Fachrichtung Wirtschaft'' (secondary level 2 only) * ''Berufliches Gymnasium Fachrichtung Technik'' (secondary level 2 only) * ''Höhere Berufsfachschule Polizeidienst und Verwaltung'' (''Fachhochschulreife'' only)


Vocational training schools

* ''Berufsbildende Schule für Technik, Gewerbe, Hauswirtschaft, Sozialwesen'' * ''Berufsbildende Schule für Wirtschaft'' * ''Berufsbildende Schule Landwirtschaft'' * ''
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Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH Lehranstalt für Agrar- und Umwelttechnik''


Special schools

* ''Bethesda-Schule Schule für Körperbehinderte'' ("full-time school") * ''Don-Bosco-Schule Schule für geistig Behinderte'' ("full-time school") * ''Schule am Ellerbach Schule für Lernbehinderte'' ("full-time school") In 1950, the
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for Agricultural and Agricultural Engineering was moved from Imbshausen to Bad Kreuznach, where it used spaces of the Bangert knightly estate. From 1956 until its closure in 1976, it bore the name ''Max-Planck-Institut für Landarbeit und Landtechnik''. From 1971 to 1987, the discipline of cultivation of the ''Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz'', Bingen, was located in Bad Kreuznach. Since it moved away to Bingen, Bad Kreuznach has been offering collegelike training for aspirant winemakers and agricultural technologists with the ''DLR'' (''Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum''). This two-year ''Technikerschule für Weinbau und Oenologie sowie Landbau'' is a path within the agricultural economics college. It continues the tradition of the former, well known ''Höheren Weinbauschule'' ("Higher Winegrowing School") and the ''Ingenieurschule für Landbau'' ("Engineering School for Cultivation") and fills a gap in the training between Fachhochschule and one-year ''Fachschule''. The ''Agentur für Qualitätssicherung, Evaluation und Selbstständigkeit von Schulen'' ("Agency for Quality Assurance, Evaluation and Independence of Schools") and the ''Pädagogisches Zentrum Rheinland-Pfalz'' ("Rhineland-Palatinate Paedagogical Centre"), the latter of which the state's schools support with their further paedagogical and didactic development, likewise have their seats in the town, as does the ''Staatliche Studienseminar Bad Kreuznach'' (a higher teachers' college). The Evangelical Church in the Rhineland maintained from 1960 to 2003 a
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in Bad Kreuznach to train
vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...
s.


Notable people


Honorary citizens

Thus far, 15 persons have been named honorary citizens of the town of Bad Kreuznach. Three of those have been stripped of the honour:
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
,
Wilhelm Frick Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), who served as Reich Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate ...
and Richard Walther Darré. The twelve remaining honorary citizens are listed here with the date of the honour in parentheses: * Otto von Bismarck (1895) * Berthold von Nasse (1901) * Otto Agricola (1902) * Jean Winckler (1904) * Otto Hersing (1915) *
Paul von Hindenburg Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (; abbreviated ; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany fr ...
(1918) *
Erich Ludendorff Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914 ...
(1918) * Franz Ernst Potthoff (1924) * Joseph Schneider, entrepreneur (1928) *
Werner Forßmann Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for ...
(1957),
Nobel Prize in Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according ...
1956 * Hans Staab, owner of a large magazine distribution company, foundation named after him (1996) * Alex Jacob, hotel owner, socially engaged honorary consul general for
Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
(2008)


Sons and daughters of the town

* Konrad von Kreuznach (d. 13 October 1368 in
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
), lyricist (minstrel) and musician * Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (c. 1500 – c. 1552), German painter and draughtsman * Johann Heinrich von Carmer (1721–1801),
Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...
n grand chancellor and justice reformer * Friedrich Müller (1749–1825), pseudonym: Nasturtius, German poet and painter * Franz Christoph Braun (1766–1833), clergyman and government representative * Carl Löwig (1803–1890),
chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...
*
Eberhard Anheuser Eberhard Anheuser (27 September 1806–May 1880) was a German American soap and candle maker, as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company. Anheuser grew up in Kreuznach, where his parents operated ...
(1805–1880), entrepreneur, owner of the major brewery
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*
Wilhelm Lossen Wilhelm Clemens Lossen (8 May 1838 in Kreuznach – 29 October 1906 in Aachen) was a German chemist. He was the brother of geologist Karl August Lossen. From 1857 he studied chemistry at the University of Giessen, then continued his educat ...
(1838–1906), chemist * Karl August Lossen (1841–1894), geologist * Erich Prieger (1849–1913),
musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
* Arthur Quassowski (1858–1943), lieutenant general * Hella O'Cuire Quirke (1866–1917), writer * Ludwig Cauer (1866–1947), sculptor * Stanislaus Cauer (1867–1943), sculptor and college instructor *
Hans Driesch Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also ...
(1867–1941),
biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...
and
natural philosopher Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin ''philosophia naturalis'') is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science. From the ancient wo ...
* Alexe Altenkirch (1871–1943), painter, designer and artistic educator * Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel (1876–1927), botanist * Nelli Schmithals (1880–1975), photographer * Karl Sack (1896–1945), jurist and resistance fighter * Herbert Eimert (1897–1972), composer * Hanna Cauer (1902–1989), sculptor and painter *
Hugo Salzmann Hugo Salzmann (February 4, 19031979) was a German trade unionist, Communist in the Weimar Republic, and an Anti-Fascist during and after the Second World War. Life Salzmann was the son of a glassmaker, born in Bad Kreuznach. After completing an ap ...
(1903–1979), Communist and
Antifascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were ...
* Edmund Collein (1906–1992), architect * Konrad Frey (1909–1974),
gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...
* Eberhard Au (1921–1996), engineer, co-inventor of the Dahlbusch Bomb * Hans Schumm (1927–2007), district chairman * Albrecht Martin (born 1927), educator and politician * Heijo Hangen (born 1927), constructivist artist and documenta participant * Elmar Pieroth (born 1934), German politician ( CDU). * Ursula Hill-Samelson (born 1935), mathematician and
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...
pioneer * Manfred Ströher (born 1937), basketball functionary * Peter Anheuser (born 1938), winegrower and politician (CDU) *
Wolfgang Bötsch Wolfgang Bötsch (8 September 1938 in Bad Kreuznach – 14 October 2017 in Würzburg) was a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Between 1974 and 1976 he represented the Landtag of Bavaria. From 1976 ...
(born 1938), politician ( CSU) * Hans Maria Mole (born 1940), painter and actionist artist * Gerhard Bahrenberg (1943–2022),
geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...
* Rudolf Wohlleben (born 1936), engineering scientist, writer and student historian * Hans-Robert Lichtenberg (born 1943), celebrity * Hein-Direck Neu (1944–2017),
discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th ...
er * Volker Pudel (1944–2009), nutritional psychologist *
Günter Verheugen Günter Verheugen (born 28 April 1944) is a German politician who served as European Commissioner for Enlargement from 1999 to 2004, and then as European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry from 2004 to 2010. He was also one of five vice pr ...
(born 1944), politician (
SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...
, before that FDP) * Ulrich Birkenheier (born 1949), Chairman of the
Militärischer Abschirmdienst The Military Counterintelligence Service (german: Militärischer Abschirmdienst; MAD) is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany, and is responsible for military counterintelligence. The other two are the ''Bundesnachrichtendiens ...
* Udo van Kampen (born 1949), journalist * Wolfgang Donsbach (born 1949), communication scientist * Andreas Höfele (born 1950), Anglist and writer * Armin Emrich (born 1951), handball trainer * Wolfgang Schömel (born 1952), author * Horst Klee (born 1952), guitarist and musical educator * Hans-Werner Wagner (1952–1998), state secretary (CDU) * Lee Charm (born 1954), Chairman of the National Tourism Authority of
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
* Holger Härter (born 1956), manager * Yaacov Lozowick (born 1957), philosopher and educator * Sabine Hassinger (born 1958), author * Helmut Freitag (born 1960), university music director * Ise Thomas (born 1960), politician ( Alliance '90/The Greens) * Karl Christoph Klauer (born 1961), cognitional psychologist and professor * Peter Eich (born 1963),
football goalkeeper Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
* Hans-Peter Burghof (born 1963), economist *
Marcus Birkenkrahe Marcus Birkenkrahe (born 29 December 1963 as ''Marcus Speh'' in Bad Kreuznach, Germany) is a physicist and information architect who also works as an executive coach. After obtaining his Abitur in 1983, Birkenkrahe studied physics, mathematics an ...
(born 1963),
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
,
information architect Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging ...
and executive coach * Melitta Sundström/Thomas Gerards (1964–1993); entertainment and travesti artist * Aiman Abdallah (born 1965), television moderator * Karsten Thormaehlen (born 1965), photographer, editor and curator * Petra Erdtmann (born 1967), flautist * Gregor Beyer (born 1968), politician (FDP) * Katharina Saalfrank (born 1971), diplomaed educator and columnist * Andreas Fischer-Lescano (born 1972), expert in
jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...
and professor *
Michael Senft Michael Senft (born 28 September 1972 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C2 event in 1996 in Atlanta. Sen ...
(born 1972), canoeist * Julia Klöckner (born 1972), politician (CDU) and chairwoman of the CDU faction in the
Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution provides: "The Landtag is the supreme organ of political decision-making, el ...
* Siegfried Kärcher (born 1974), visual artist *
Thomas Reichenberger Thomas Reichenberger (born 14 October 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. Honours * Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a profe ...
(born 1974), footballer *
Thomas Schmidt Thomas Schmidt (born 18 February 1976, in Bad Kreuznach) is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1994 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K1 event in Sydney in 2000. Schmidt ...
(born 1976), canoeist * Alexander Graeff (born 1976), writer * Manuel Friedrich (born 1979), footballer *
Niklas Meinert Niklas Meinert (born 1 May 1981 in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a field hockey midfielder from Germany, who played for Mannheimer HC. He made his international senior debut for the Men's National Team on 23 March 2003 in a friendly m ...
(born 1981),
field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...
player *
Jens Werrmann Jens Werrmann (born 29 May 1985 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German hurdler. He finished 6th in the 110m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Competition record External links

1985 births Living people G ...
(born 1985), hurdler * Benjamin Kessel (born 1987), footballer *
Matthias de Zordo Matthias de Zordo (born 21 February 1988) is a German athlete who was the World Champion in the men's javelin throw in 2011. With a throw of 87.81 metres, he won the silver medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. D ...
(born 1988),
javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the wom ...
er * Pierre Merkel (born 1989), footballer


Famous personalities

* Marie von Oranien-Nassau (1642–1688), widow of Pfalzgraf
Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern Louis Henry (German: Ludwig Heinrich) (11 October 1640 - 3 January 1674) was the Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern from 1653 until 1673. Life Louis Henry was born in 1640 as the only surviving son of Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simme ...
(1640–1674), remodelled the abandoned Augustiner-Chorfrauenstift (Kreuznach), Augustinian convent of Saint Peter into the "Oranienhof" * Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757–1822), theologian and political writer (spent his last years here) * Emil Cauer the Elder (1800–1867), sculptor * Gustav Pfarrius (1800–1884), German poet, schoolteacher and professor * Stephan Lück (1806–1883), theologian, Cathedral Music Director of Trier and publisher, worked from 1828 to 1831 as chaplain in Kreuznach * Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875), called "Texas-Carl", buried at the Bad Kreuznach town graveyard * Robert Cauer the Elder (1831–1893), sculptor, son of Emil Cauer the Elder and brother of Karl Cauer * Carl Heinrich Jacobi, photographer known for his collotypes and Stereoscopy, stereoscopic photographs * Hugo Reich (1854–1935), German theologian, founder of the deaconry * Emil Thormählen (1859–1941), architect and director of the Kölner Werkschulen, Kölner Kunstgewerbeschule (Cologne School of Applied Arts) * Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze (1867–1954), writer and Feminism, feminist * Lina Hilger (1874–1942), German educator * Sophie Sondhelm (1887–1944), nurse and director, refugee helper during the time of the
Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
* Klaus Thormaehlen (1892–1981), engineer, winegrower and inventor * Hermann Niebuhr (1904–1968), basketball pioneer in Germany *
Werner Forßmann Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for ...
(1904–1979), Cardiology, cardiologist, Nobel laureate * Yakovos Bilek (1917–2005), German-Turkish basketball player, Official (basketball), referee and trainer of Greek heritage * Dieter Wellmann (born 1923), church musician at Paul's
Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...
Church (''Pauluskirche'') from 1960 to 1996 * Werner Danz (1923–1999), German politician (FDP) * Rudolf Anheuser (1924–2009), basketball functionary * Peter Anheuser (born 1938); architect, former Member of the Landtag, town councillor * Fridel Grenz (born 1929), church musician at Saint Nicholas's Catholic Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus'') * Heiner Thabe, Orthopedic surgery, orthopaedic surgeon * Csilla Hohendorf, special educator * Inge Rossbach, actress and producer * Carsten Pörksen (born 1944), Member of the Landtag * Ursula Reindell (born 1946), painter and sculptor (2008 Cultural Prize winner) * Walter Brusius (born 1950), painter (1999 Cultural Prize winner) * Kurt-Ulrich Mayer (born 1950), politician (CDU) professor and chairman of the ''Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk and neue Medien'' ("Saxon State Institute for Private Broadcasting and New Media", SLM) * Gernot Meyer-Grönhof (born 1951), visual artist * André Borsche (born 1955), Plastic surgery, plastic surgeon * Helmut Kickton (born 1956), cantor of the ''kreuznacher diakonie'' * Gabriele B. Harter (born 1962), Archaeology, archaeologist and author * Frank Leske (born 1965), sculptor (2002 Cultural Prize winner) * Susanne Schäfer (born 1966), author and Optical engineering, optical engineer * Anna Dogonadze (born 1973), German-Georgia (country), Georgian Olympic champion in trampolining * Beate Rux-Voss, cantor at Paul's Evangelical Church (''Pauluskirche'') (2000 Cultural Prize winner) * Alexander Esters (born 1977), painter and sculptor * Selina Herrero (born 1993), pop singer *Jean Mannheim (1862–1945), California Impressionism, California Impressionist painter and educator, born in Bad Kreuznach. *Yann Peifer DJ of Cascada (born 1974), known by his stage name Yanou


Sundry

* In Eisenach, the well-to-do salesman and patrician Conrad Creutznacher had the later so-called ''Kreuznacher Haus'' (or ''Creuznacherhaus'') built in the
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...
style next to Saint George's Church (''Georgenkirche'') in 1507/1539. In the early 17th century this was integrated into the residential palace (today Markt 9). * In Daniel Defoe's novel ''Robinson Crusoe'', which came out in 1719, the title character tells the reader that his mother's family originally bore the name "Kreutznaer" and had emigrated to England by way of Bremen. Since then, the surname Crusoe has been taken to be a corruption (linguistics), corruption of the word ''Kreuznacher'' ("person from Kreuznach"). In 1720, at first anonymously, Defoe's novel ''Memoirs of a Cavalier'' appeared, in which receipts from "Creutznach" are described.''cf.'' the 2nd edition, appearing through James Lister, Leeds about 1750, pp. 93–95
Online
.
* Marcel Proust visited the town with his mother in 1895. * Bad Kreuznach is known among photographers as the home of Schneider Kreuznach, Schneider Optische Werke, a famous photographic lens maker.


References


Further reading

All these works are in German: * Johann Goswin Widder:
Versuch einer vollständigen Geographisch-Historischen Beschreibung der Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine
', Bd. IV, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1788, S. 22–48 (Online-Resource, accessed 21 December 2011) * Walter Zimmermann (editor): ''Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Kreuznach'' (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 18/1), Düsseldorf: L. Schwann 1935 (Nachdruck München /
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1972, ) * Ernst Emmerling: ''Bad Kreuznach'' (Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 187). 2nd edition. Neuss 1980. * ''Heimatchronik des Kreises Kreuznach''. Archiv für Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH,
Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
1966. * Stadt Bad Kreuznach (publisher): ''50 Jahre amerikanische Streitkräfte in Bad Kreuznach''. Bad Kreuznach 2001. * Stadt Bad Kreuznach (publisher): ''Das Kreuznacher Sportbuch''. Bad Kreuznach 2006.


External links


Town’s official webpage

Tourist information about Bad Kreuznach

Kreuznacher.de
a wiki for residents and ex-residents
The bridge competition award

The future bridge design by Dissing+Weilting
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