Bad Schönborn is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in northern Karlsruhe district in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. It is located on the

Bertha Benz Memorial Route The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg and member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It opened in 2008 and follows the tracks of the world's first long distance road trip by a vehic ...

In 1971, two previous towns Bad Langenbrücken and Bad Mingolsheim were combined, and the town was named Bad Schönborn after Damian Hugo von Schönborn, archbishop 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 ...

(1719–1743), who built Kislau Castle in Bad Mingolsheim. Bad Schönborn is famous for being a health resort with mineral springs, and this spa offers the largest roofed swimming area in Germany to people with a wide range of diseases, e.g.

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. Bad Schönborn is one of the well-known health resorts in Baden-Württemberg due to its sulfur and thermal water. It has numerous spa and rehabilitation facilities. The development of the St. Lambertus thermal fountain, which the former mayor Willhauck promoted, was a major factor in the upswing of the health resort. Under his successor, Bender, the Thermarium was inaugurated in the current spa area in Mingolsheim in 1975. The most important local clinics and rehabilitation centers are the St. Rochus Clinic in Bad Mingolsheim, the Sigmund-Weil and Gotthard Schettler Clinic, and the Sigel Clinic and the Mikina Clinic in Bad Langenbrücken. Archbishop

Franz Christoph von Hutten Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...

founded the sulphur spa in Bad Langenbrücken in 1766. A famous citizen is the minister of the interior of

parliament Heribert Rech, and the singer

Joana Emetz Joana the equivalent of Joanna in Catalan () and Portuguese (). The Galician form of the name is Xoana (). It may refer to: * Joana Benedek – a Mexican actress * Joana of Braganza, a.k.a. Joana of Portugal (1635-1653) – a Portuguese princ ...

. The

Battle of Mingolsheim The Battle of Mingolsheim (german: Schlacht bei Mingolsheim) was fought on 27 April 1622, near the German village of Wiesloch, south of Heidelberg (and south of Wiesloch), between a Protestant army under General von Mansfeld and the ...

took place near Mingolsheim during the

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on April 27, 1622.

People of Bad Schönborn

Peter Luder Peter Luder (1415–1472), was a German professor of Latin at the University of Heidelberg from 1456, was the first to introduce humanist Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency ...

(1415–1472) a professor of

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at the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, B ...

Franz Mone Franz Mone (12 May 1796, in Mingolsheim near Bruchsal, Baden – 12 March 1871, in Karlsruhe) was a historian and archaeologist. He attended the gymnasium at Bruchsal and in 1814 entered Heidelberg University, where in 1817 he was appointed a le ...

(* 12. May 1796 in Mingolsheim) a historian and archeologist * Al (Albert) Sieber (* 27. February 1843 in Mingolsheim) Chief of Scouts during the

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William Stang William Stang (April 21, 1854 – February 2, 1907) was a German-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts from 1904 until his death in 1907. Biography Ear ...

(* 21. April 1854 in Langenbrücken) Bishop of Fall River in Massachusetts], the

Bishop Stang High School Bishop Stang High School is a private Catholic high school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. It was the first diocesan secondary school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, whi ...

is named in memory of William Stang.

References

External links

Bertha Benz Memorial Route
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