Bad Wörishofen

Bad Wörishofen is a Kneipp spa and the largest city in the Swabian district Unterallgaeu and one of 13 powerful municipalities belonging in Bavaria. Sebastian Kneipp had in Bad Wörishofen as pastor and spread from there his knowledge of the healing power of water, the basis of the Kneipp cure.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 flag

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 churches
• 4.3 Sports facilities
• 4.4 monuments
• 4.5 schools
• 4.6 memorials

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 personalities associated with Bad Wörishofen

Geography

Location

Bad Wörishofen lies in the Danube-Iller region in Central Swabia, about 80 km west of Munich and 35 km east of Memmingen on Wörthbach, a tributary rivers of the Mindel.

Expansion of the urban area

The town of Bad Wörishofen since the municipal reform includes the villages of Bad Wörishofen, Dorschhausen, Frankenhofen, Hartenthal, Kirchdorf, Upper Hart, Obergammenried, slings, Beautiful chess, Stock Home, Lower Hart and Untergammenried.

History

The town was first mentioned as a rule " Werenshova " documentary in 1067. The name means " the Court or the courts of Werin ." For centuries remained Wörishofen a rural settlement. From 1719 to 1721, the monastery was Wörishofen led by Dominic Zimmermann built.

The leisurely life in the village changed towards the end of the 19th century. To the cure began in 1889 under the direction of Father Sebastian Kneipp, the pastor of St. Justina. He had come here on 2 May 1855 as confessor for the Dominican convent. His therapy to alleviate water with all sorts of ailments, rich and health-conscious people moved into the village, sought healing. Between 1891 and 1896 originated in a construction boom over 120 new buildings, especially hotels and pensions. However, the villagers harbored towards the new healing methods of their pastor partly distrust and rejection, a mayor laid for alleged " activities" Kneipp resign. On March 6, 1920 Wörishofen received the title of " Bad".

After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Bad Wörishofen belonged to the American occupation zone. The American military administration set up for the accommodation of "displaced persons" (DPs ) a a DP camp. Most of them came from Lithuania. The camp was supervised by the UNRRA and had his own out given by the UNRRA cash.

In 1949 the collection was followed to the city. From the austerity measures in health care, among other things, limitations of cures, in the 1990s the city was not spared. The annual overnight stays of 1.3-1.5 million visitors slumped to the number of 800,000 in 2003. Various health establishments were forced to retire.

Were suspiciously eyed by the population plans to build a new thermal bath at the dawn of the 21st century. It was feared a dilution of the now long been valued by the locals Kneipp 's doctrine. Meanwhile, opened in May 2004 Therme has become a center of attraction of Bad Woerishofen with South Seas flair.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972 the then independent municipality loops was incorporated. On 1 January 1977 was added in Kirchdorf. Dorschhausen and Stock Home followed on 1 May 1978.

Policy

City ​​council

The city council election on 2 March 2008 resulted in a turnout of 50.83 % ( 0.4 ) to the following result:

/ -: The difference refers to the last city council elections on March 3, 2002

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was on May 27, 1915 King Ludwig III. awarded by Bavaria.

Blazon: "Among silver, covered with a green lime tree branch head of the shield in blue with a silver wave beams. "

Both the date of acceptance as well as the coat of arms coat of arms merged for the former village elements are in a clear reference to nature- cure of the parish priest Sebastian Kneipp. So refers to the silvery wave beams in addition to the location of the place on Wörthbach on the most substantial health therapy according to Kneipp, of the more than 100 different water applications. The green linden branch in chief brings the health-promoting herbal medicines, treatment with herbal medicines and the nature-friendly diet and lifestyle expressed. In addition, the Linden branch can be seen as an indication of the local situation of the place in a wooded area. The box colors White - Blue stand in relation to the national colors. It is remarkable for the coat of arms that the carried forward to the crest award from the council wish to take up the earlier in water treatment and commonly used watering can in the coat of arms has not been followed.

Flag

The flag is white-blue striped -hook coat of arms.

Culture and sights

The urban spa park contains one of the largest Rosarien Germany with over 8,000 rose bushes and more than 530 varieties. In the city there are many buildings that play in the history of Pastor Kneipp an important role, about his first Sebastianeum Kurhaus, built from 1890 to 1891. There is still today his office to visit, as it was then. The Therme Bad Woerishofen is the eastern end of the Swabian Spa Route.

Museums

In the Dominican convent, where Sebastian Kneipp from 1855 worked until his death in 1897 as a confessor, the Sebastian -Kneipp- museum. On the site of the former military airfield in today's neighborhood garden city to issue the flyer Bad Worishofen is presented in a historical glider hall.

Churches

Part of religious culture is the Dominican convent, built 1719-1721, with stucco work and frescos Dominic Zimmermann and Johann Baptist Zimmermann, as well as the parish church of St. Justina, created 1519-1520. Sebastian Kneipp was shown here in 1936 by Johann Michael Schmitt in a ceiling fresco. The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer with glass windows by Helmut Ammann was built in 1968.

In the district Untergammenried the Sanctuary of St. Rasso is worth seeing. Also a place of pilgrimage is the Church of the Visitation in Dorschhausen. Glossy home is the Baroque Church of St. Michael with ceiling fresco by Johann Josef Anton Huber. The Church of St. Martin in loops was renewed in the 1760s and has ceiling frescoes by Franz Anton Zeiler. The Church of St. Christopher in Frankenhofen goes back to a late medieval chapel and was expanded in the late 17th century to its present form. Within the area are beyond even other churches and chapels.

Sports facilities

The favorable climate conditions in 620-700 m above sea level and the northern edge of the hilly Allgäu created for Bad Wörishofen ideal for leisure and sports use. In addition, the place for a spa has an unusually open and informal character: spa gardens, promenade, park and groomed traffic areas merge seamlessly into a graceful landscape, which is alternated by open meadows and rushing high forests. For most visitors, walking and especially cycling is very popular. Even otherwise, Bad Wörishofen offers an extensive range of sports: there are 22 tennis courts, the spa, an indoor ice rink, two 18 -hole golf courses, several professionally usable soccer fields and numerous public sports facilities, from basketball to curling. In and around the town there is a glider airfield and the airfield Bad Wörishofen -Nord for powered aircraft. In the district Frankenhofen a model airport with asphalt runway. The target in the area about the theme park Allgäu Skyline Park is to lead in Kirchdorf. Since 1985, each performed in the Chess Festival Bad Wörishofen in the spring, an international chess tournament in the theater hall of the Kurhaus.

Monuments

Train

The city has several schools, the pastor Kneipp primary school (elementary school and secondary school, with medium - maturity classes 7 and 8 and open all-day school ), the business school Bad Wörishofen and the " Irmgard Seefried singing and music ." The Fachoberschule Bad Wörishofen has two branches, one for business / management / law and a second of Social Affairs. For the training of young people, the hotel Hotel School Bad Wörishofen is responsible.

Memorials

On a Jewish grave field within the municipal cemetery is a mass grave, in the 34 concentration camp prisoners are buried, who died in early 1945 after her detention in the Sub-Camp Turk Home at the Hospital of Wörishofen to the effects of his imprisonment. A memorial stone commemorates this event.

Transport links

Bad Wörishofen include links to the local and long distance transport:

• By train: Bad Wörishofen is connected via the railway line Türk Home Bad Wörishofen to the railway line Buchloe -Memmingen. There are direct connections to the ICE stop Augsburg main station and to Buchloe, where direct connection to Munich and Zurich is.
• By car: A96 motorway Munich - Lindau, exit Bad Wörishofen
• By Air: The city has a flying club and a glider airfield, the nearest airports are the Memmingen airport is 40 km away and Munich Airport is about 90 km away.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), Film Director
• Nuscheler ( b. 1938 ), political scientist

Personalities associated with Bad Wörishofen

• Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897), priest and Hydrotherapeut ( Kneipp - Kur )
• Franz " Bull" Roth ( born 1946 ), international footballer, who owns a business for sportswear in Bad Wörishofen
• Ulla Salzgeber (* 1958), dressage rider, until March 2011 living in Bad Wörishofen
• Irmgard Seefried (1919-1988), soprano, lived from 1923 to 1940 in Bad Woerishofen, winner of the Public Service Medal in gold of the town of Bad Wörishofen
• Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), the great English composer, some time in Munich resident, spa 1889
• Bernhard Uehleke, physician -founded, and from 1989 onwards ran the Sebastian Kneipp Research in Bad Wörishofen