Bad Bibra

Bad Bibra is a small town in the south of Saxony-Anhalt and a nationally recognized resort. The city is the seat of the municipality at the Finn, who belong to five more communities adjacent to the cities Eckartsberga and Bad Bibra.

3.1 City Council
3.2 Coat of Arms
3.3 flag

4.1 traffic
4.2 Tourism

Geography

Geographical location

The city lies near the border with Thuringia in the valley of Beaver creek, which flows five kilometers north-east at Burgscheidungen in the Unstrut.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Nebra in the north, Finneland and Imperial Palace in the west, on the Post Road and Balgstädt in the south and Lauchagrund and Karsdorf in the east.

Structure

The town of Bad Bibra consists of the administrative headquarters Bad Bibra and other places, which in turn are subdivided into districts.

History

At the beginning of the 9th century Bibra is built in a directory of the Patrimony of the Archbishop Lull († 786) of Mainz Hersfeld monastery was first mentioned in documents as Bibraho. The location at Beaver Brook Bibra owes its name.

In the 10th century (after 919 ) Here was a castle of the royal family of the Old Saxon Liudolfinger. 963 donates Count Billung on the imperial Fiskalgut Bibra a Benedictine monastery. Around the year 1107, if not earlier, entered the Augustinian Canons at the site of the Benedictine monastery in Bibra.

1124 got Bibra market rights, 1550, the town was referred to not as a city but as a stain. With the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved. 1657 Bibra fell to the Duchy of Saxe- Weissenfels. It is the responsibility of the Dukes of healthy well was taken. Bibra became the Modebad of the duchy. The town was under the Office Eckartsberga. Bibra was the site of action of the great baroque poet Erdmann Neumeister cantata. In the 19th century the seaside tourism flourishes again, since 1925, the place may be called bathroom.

On 1 July 2009 the merged municipalities Altenroda, Golzen, Thalwinkel and the town of Bad Bibra.

The small spa resort Bad Bibra has the goal of becoming the Kneipp resort.

From 1869 to 1871, the present-day Mary Magdalene church was built on the site of the former dilapidated church. The town church has an organ from the workshop Wilhelm army truck with 24 stops on two manuals and pedal from 1871. Instrument is the largest of 1855-1892 based Klosterhäseler company in the region. The organ case, forming a structure with the new Gothic nave.

Policy

City council

The city council of Bad Bibra is composed of 16 members:

Result of the local elections of 7 June 2009:

CDU: 8 seats
Groups of voters: 3 seats
FDP: 3 seats
SPD: 1 seat
Single applicants: 1 seat

In 2013, there were three groups:

CDU group: 9 seats
FDP: 4 seats
Wählergemeinschaft: 3 seats

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 2 November 2009 by the county.

Blazon: "Divided by silver- green; above a growing green fir, below a gold reinforced silver beaver on a blue ground. "

The colors of the city are white - green.

Historical coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, in front of a green coniferous tree on green meadow over blue water and a natural beaver. "

The -talking city arms reminiscent of a tribe that was resident in Hesse at Beaver, a left tributary of the Kinzig and settled here. The place name means beaver creek.

Flag

The flag is white - striped green ( 1:1).

Economy and infrastructure

Einstein - starting on December 10, 1909 with the sinking of the shaft " Orlas " about two miles west of the local situation Wippach on the site of a former brickworks - were the mines of the Kaliwerke " Orlas union " and " union Nebra " the dominant employer. Were mined hard salt, carnallite, and to a lesser extent kainite and sylvite.

The shaft Nebra is located approximately one kilometer north of the Orlas - shaft in a wooded area. The workings of the " unions Orlas and Nebra " extending over a length of approximately 2.5 kilometers in trending direction and a width of around 700 meters. Both pits were connected via the 467 m level. The conveyed was ground above ground and placed in Kleinwangen by means of a cable car to the loading facility. From there, the salts went over the rail and axle for further processing in the factory system of the mine Roßleben. All above-ground facilities in 1934 canceled. On the site at Nebra - bay is only a small remnant of Abteufhalde.

Today a dairy is the largest employer in the town.

Traffic

From the west you reach Bad Bibra via the federal highway 4, exit Mellingen and the B 87 and the B 250, from the northeast via the Federal Highway 9 and the B 176

The running track Lauchagrund - Kölleda, owned at the Bad Bibra a station is no longer in operation. The under construction New line Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle leads in 6466 meter long Bibratunnel north past the place.

Tourism

Bad Bibra is located in the tourist region of Saale- Unstrut as well as in the nature park Saale Unstrut Triasland. The place offers wagon rides, walks in the forest orchids Bibra and two viaducts in the forest, who belonged to the 1993 disused railway connection Lauchagrund - Lossa. The health education by Sebastian Kneipp is mediated by guides and a Kneipp information center. Kneipp water facilities are available. Currently being drilled by medicinal water and prepared to build a new spa park.

Personalities

The Dukes of Saxe - Weissenfels appreciated the spa and were prominent patrons Bibras: Herzog August (1614-1680) had his personal physician Dr. Siebold the healing investigate scientifically source, his son Duke Johann Adolf I. (1649-1697) was enclose the source, Duke Johann Georg (1677-1712) came regularly, and after 1727 Duke Christian ( 1682-1736 ) was cured by repeated use of the healthy well water from an eye disease, he had to clean the fountain and new border and remained faithful until his death in 1736 Kurgast.
Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756), Church hymn-writer, theologian and poeticists; from 1696 pastor in Bibra and around 1700/1702 author of the poem " Nachdenckliche considerations of curieusen Fountain Guest Biebra ".
Christoph Förster (1693-1745), composer and violinist
Mayor Pieroh: in 1874 Mayor of Bibra and initiator of the " joint-stock company to raise the bath Bibra ".
Dr. Stockmann: the doctor from Bibra was elected in 1848 as a deputy in Berlin
Friedrich ( Karl) Zippel ( 1887-1960 ) was a Protestant minister, a member of the Confessing Church (BK), Nazi victims and prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp.
Hildegard Rothe - Ille Ille born (1899-1942), mathematician
Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche ( born January 29, 1756 in Bibra, † March 16 1826 in a hurry castle ) was a German theologian. He was the grandfather of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.