Bad Kissingen (district)
The district of Bad Kissingen is located in the north of the district of Lower Franconia. Neighboring districts are in the north of the district of Fulda, in Hesse, in the northeastern district of Rhön - grave field, in the southeastern district of Schweinfurt, the south and southwest of the Main Spessart district in the west of Hesse, and the Main-Kinzig -Kreis.
- 3.4.1 Blazon
- 3.4.2 Crest History
- 4.1 traffic 4.1.1 Transportation
- 4.1.2 road
- 4.1.3 rail
- 4.1.4 air
Geography
The district of Bad Kissingen has a share in the southern foothills of the Rhön and the northeast foothills of the Spessart. In the south, a gently undulating landscape stretches with heights up to 380 m. The district area is traversed by the Franconian Saale. She enters in the northeast, southwest of Bad Neustadt adSaale, the circle area, then flows in a southwesterly direction through Bad Kissingen and mutton castle before they reach the circle leaving that territory in the southwest, west of mutton castle again, only to culminate in Gemünden into the Main.
History
Today the district belonged before 1800 mainly to Abbey of Fulda and then came to Bavaria. 1804, the district court districts Kissingen, your village and Muennerstadt were built. They belonged in 1808 to the Lower Main circuit. 1819 District Courts Brückenau and mutton castle were formed. All regional court districts belonged from 1838 to the circle of Lower Franconia and Würzburg, the later Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. 1862, the districts Brückenau, mutton castle and Kissingen were formed, the county courts mutton castle and your village to the district mutton castle, county courts and Muennerstadt Kissingen belonged to the district Kissingen and from the district court district Brückenau the same county was formed. 1908 different Kissingen from the district office Kissingen and was a circular immediate city. The three districts Brückenau, Bad Kissingen and mutton castle in 1939 called counties. 1940 Hammel castle was temporarily incorporated into the district of Bad Kissingen, but this was reversed in 1948.
The local government reform in Bavaria in 1972 the independent city of Bad Kissingen and individual municipalities of the districts Gemünden and Karlstadt was from the three districts of Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau and mutton castle, the new district of Bad Kissingen formed which was nicknamed baths county. Bad Kissingen had with it the circle of freedom, however, received the newly created status of a district town and remained the seat of the new county.
Policy
District administrators
On March 16, 2014 Thomas Bold was re-elected with 91.9 % of the vote for a new term of office.
Council
(As of election on March 2, 2008)
Coat of arms
Description
Under blue shield with three silver main Schalenbrunnen split: the front over geschachtetem of red and silver sign foot in a growing gold, black, red reinforced half eagle at the gap; back in a black silver Tatzenkreuz ( 29 Crest Awards May 1973).
Importance
The three wells represent the three state-owned spas in a circle ( Bad Bocklet, Brückenau and Bad Kissingen ). The front half of the shield shows the coat of arms of the Counts of Henneberg, who led the Eagles on the chess field and the Tatzenkreuz stands for the pin Fulda, which ruled the territory of the former counties Brückenau and mutton castle.
Old county coat of arms
Blazon
Under the head of the shield with the Bavarian lozenges, split front in gold on green Three mountain, a black rooster with red feet and red comb back in red three silver spikes.
Coat of Arms history
The emblem of notes on the three earlier in the district mainly ruling lords are included. The main shield is the coat of arms of Bavaria, as the county is a branch of Bavaria. The rooster on the three mountain is a talking regard to the Counts of Henneberg, but not their coat of arms. The coat of arms of the counts contained in the new county coat of arms of 1973 under the main shield the split part, the front, they dominated the major part of the circle to the 14th century. The silver tips on red ( the Franconian rake ) are the arms of the prince bishops of Würzburg, who ruled by and for the greatest part of the circle between the 13th and 18th centuries. The coat of arms was granted on February 12, 1963.
Economy and infrastructure
The economy in the district is heavily influenced by tourism. This is largely due to three state-owned spas Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau and bathroom Booklet, housing guests all year round.
Larger industrial enterprises are in Bad Kissingen district Albertshausen ( Takata -Petri PlasTec GmbH, plastic parts for the automotive industry ), in Muennerstadt ( MGlas AG, primary packaging and delivery systems for the pharmaceutical industry ), Oerlenbach ( Hegler Plastik GmbH, plastic pipe systems for the construction and civil engineering ) Wild spots ( Kunert, corrugated ), Brückenau ( GKN sinter metal and Interstate mineral water, beverages) and mutton castle ( Lutz meat products) settled. Otherwise, smaller businesses and the craft dominant. Agriculture plays as an employer only a minor role, this also applies to wine production in the Saale valley.
Like many other areas, is also fighting the district of Bad Kissingen with unemployment. The unemployment rate was in the last few years higher than the average of Bavaria, but also lower than the national average. Job losses were in the 1990s, especially in the context of a changing health legislation and the crisis of the bearing industry in the near Schweinfurt. New impulses for the economy and thus new jobs will bring the Rhön -Saale -up Centre in Bad Kissingen. It is operated jointly with the district of Rhön - grave field, the city of Bad Kissingen, and the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Commerce (ICC ) and the Chamber of Crafts ( HWK) and is meant to help launch young companies. Numerous other initiatives to boost the regional economy are related to the Rhön Biosphere Reserve.
Traffic
Transportation
In Bad Kissingen local public transport from the KOB is settled. The circle bus operation ( KOB ), headquartered in Oberthulba ( district of Bad Kissingen ) is a subsidiary of the OVF and the district Bad Kissingen. The KOB GmbH maintains a Home Depot in Oberthulba and two bus depots in Brückenau and mutton castle. The fleet of the company consists of 30 intercity buses, 7 Kombi buses, three coaches and a minibus together, which take a total of 13 lines in the district of Bad Kissingen.
Road
The district is crossed by the A 7, one of the most important north -south connections in Germany. The connection points are Brückenau - Volkers, Brückenau / Wildflecken, Bad Kissingen / Oberthulba and mutton castle. Another highway connection is the A71 from Schweinfurt to Erfurt. It leads to a length of approximately 15 kilometers through the county.
Rail
The Bavarian state railways built in the district in 1871, first a train from Schweinfurt to Bad Kissingen.
Muennerstadt 1874 connected to the network, as the main track was come to Meiningen, which branches in Ebenshausen. The single-track line ended in the wake of the German division in Mellrichstadt ( district of Rhön - grave field). After the reunification of closing the gap and the track was opened in 1991 for the continuity of transport to Thuringia.
With the Saale Valley Railway you could travel from node to Gemünden Hammelburg since 1884; 40 years later the gap to Bad Kissingen by the German Reichsbahn was closed.
Brückenau received in 1891 Jossa a connection to the main train Fulda -Würzburg; this route was extended in 1908 because of the training area to white spots.
From the main railway Schweinfurt -Meiningen was adjusted in 1900 in Rottershausen a branch to Stadtlauringen ago, touched some smaller communities in the southeast of the circle.
Following closure of the passenger traffic on the two routes
Is in the district have a network of 56 kilometers with the breakpoints Bad Kissingen, Diebach, Ebenshausen, Elfershausen - Trimberg, your village, mutton castle, mutton castle - east, Morlesau, Muennerstadt, Oerlenbach, Rottershausen and West Home Langendorf served.
The German railway offers direct trains from Würzburg Hbf to Bad Kissingen, the regional train journeys are carried out by railcar Erfurt railway.
Air
In the district there are no significant airports. The nearest are located in Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg and Erfurt. The at least regionally important airfield Haßfurt is also not at the county area. However, there are several airports for small engine and gliders.
Cities and Towns
( Population figures from December 31, 2012)
Cities
Markets
Communities
Free community areas ( 122.75 km ², all uninhabited )
Management Communities
Towns and villages of the district before the municipal reform 1971/78
Before the local government reform of Bad Kissingen district had 56 communities ( see list below). ( The towns that still exist today are in bold ):
Geotopes
The district is 29 (as of October 2013) are the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district of Bad Kissingen