Bad Kösen

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Location of Bad Kösen in Naumburg ( Saale)

Bad Kösen is a district of the city of Naumburg ( Saale) in Burgenland district, in Saxony -Anhalt. He is a health resort and saltwater pool.

• 2.1 Incorporation to Naumburg (Saale )

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Museums
• 4.3 parks
• 4.4 excursion traffic
• 4.5 Sports
• 4.6 Regular events
• 4.7 Specialty

• 5.1 Economics
• 5.2 Education
• 5.3 traffic

• 6.1 freeman
• 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.3 Known spa guests

Geography

Geographical Location

Bad Kösen is located in the northernmost quality wine growing region of Saale- Unstrut on the B 87 ( Via Regia ) between Apolda and Naumburg ( Saale) in the Natural Park Saale Unstrut Triasland, about 40 km southwest of Halle.

The city is crossed by the Saale, which has been dug at the gate Kösener her bed deep into the limestone. The city is divided as to the Saalebrücke in a Altkösen right of the Saale and younger Neukösen left the hall.

Local structure

The following districts are part of Bad Kösen:

• Tultewitz (since 1993)
• Push (1993 )
• Hassenhausen (1992 )

• Punschrau (1992)
• Kleinheringen (1991 )
• Rödigen (1991)

• Saaleck
• Stendorf
• Lengefeld

• Schulpforte
• Kukulau
• Fränkenau

Environment

Not far from the city are located above the gate Kösener the celebrated ruins Saaleck and Rudelsburg with the monuments of Kösener Senior Convents Association ( KSCV ), a corp student association. ( See also Monuments in Rudelsburg )

History

Kosen was founded in the Middle Ages as Vorwerk Cusne the monastery Pforta. The construction of the stone bridge over the Saale, the Via Regia took the shorter course over Kösen. Until the 18th century was the place for rafting on the river Saale of some importance. Salt production started in 1730 became unprofitable in 1857, could be obtained cheaper than in Staßfurt salt. So Kösen remained only the development in tourist direction. The Battle of Jena and Auerstedt found in 1806 partly in the adjoining districts of Thuringia in the district Kösener Hassenhausen instead.

1848 took place in the book hall of Kosen with the People's Assembly in Kösen take one of the great popular assemblies of the revolutionary year. The Kösener bird pastures were a regular summery Germanist meeting in Kösen in the 19th century.

1868 Kosen became a town within the meaning of City Ordinance of 30 May 1853, introduced on July 1st of the following year, the former district secretary in Naumburg Dr. Heinrich Anton Mascher the first mayor in his office.

Since about 1813, students of the Corps meet, initially only those of the surrounding medium German universities, every year at Pentecost on the Rudelsburg. After the reunification in 1994, this tradition was resumed. Kosen became the namesake of the company founded in 1848 umbrella organization Kösener Senior Convents -Verband ( KSCV ), which merged in the Corps primarily traditional ( non-technical ) universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 1935 Kösen resort was and allowed the predicate Bad Kösen lead.

Bad Kösen was until December 31, 2007 host municipality of the administrative community Kösen, which included a further five municipalities. From the resolution of the Management Community on 1 January 2008 was Bad Kösen as a unified community.

Incorporation to Naumburg ( Saale)

On April 22, 2007, a referendum and citizen initiatives took place, in which the incorporation into the city of Naumburg was rejected and a majority of voters expressed for the continued existence of joint management as a unified community.

The judgment of the Higher Administrative Court of Magdeburg December 11, 2007, authorize the disposal by the State of Saxony -Anhalt in December 2006 assignment to the Wethautals of the rural communities, the spa town, but not for Bad Kösen himself, everyone surprised. This resulted in the dissolution of the joint management of Bad Kösen, the end of 31 December 2007 episode. A judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court had become necessary after the administrative community Wethautal had appealed against the assignment.

On 1 January 2010, until then independent town of Bad Kösen together with the communities Crölpa - Löbschütz, Janisroda and Prießnitz in the city of Naumburg (Saale ) were incorporated and dissolved the administrative community Wethautal.

Twinning

Since 1991 Nidda in Hesse is twinned with Bad Kösen. In honor of the partnership, a street was named after the sister city in Kösener development area.

Culture and sights

Structures

• Graduation with a length of 325 meters
• Double Art linkage of the former saltworks of the Radinsel to Borlachschacht, named after Johann Gottfried Borlach which initiated in 1730 the development of salt production in Kosen
• Sole Bay at graduation
• Monastery Schulpforta
• The Romanesque House today contains the local museum and is a remnant of the medieval grange Cusne that belonged to Schulpforta time; So the ratios have been reversed. It is one of the oldest secular buildings in central Germany.
• The Berghotel William Castle as a prominent neo-Gothic secular
• The neo-Gothic Lutheran Church from 1894 with a built by Wilhelm Rühlmann organ
• The Rudelsburg with its monuments in the district Saaleck

Museums

• Romanesque house, exhibition on the history of the monastery Pforta and salt extraction in Bad Kosen
• Kunsthalle The world of Käthe Kruse dolls and the collection of Wilhelm Broker

Parks

Bad Kosen has three parks, including one in the city center with historical change halls, a modern thermal pool, a zoo and two ponds. By 2005, the park was still densely wooded. Unfortunately, in a whirlwind mid-2005 about 30 % of the tree population was heavily damaged. A second, larger, artificial park, called " Seekurpark ", located on the outskirts of the city on the hill between B 87 and rehab clinics. This spa is now used for rehab patients, but is open to the public. The third park is located around the salt works and is often used during the spa season for events.

Schultze -Naumburg villa and garden belonging to the network Gartenträume Saxony- Anhalt.

Excursion traffic

From the city center operate from April to October several times a day two motor vessels to dock at the foot of Rudelsburg.

Kosen and Rudelsburg lie on Feengrotten - Kyffhaeuser way, an old long-distance footpath, and on the Wine Route Saale- Unstrut with many ostrich farms.

Sports

Bad Kosen has several regionally successful sports clubs, including a football club, the Blue-White Bad Kösen eV, and a tennis club. Both have their own sports grounds. Similarly, possible canoe trips on the river Saale. In addition, there is a cone and a carnival club.

Regular events

• End of April: Opening of the spa season
• End of May: Well Festival ( festival in honor Borlachs and brine extraction )
• Wednesday to Saturday before Pentecost: Kösener Congress of Kösener Senior Convents Association, an umbrella organization of student corps, the brave knight
• Pentecost weekend: Wine mile on the left bank of the Saale Bad Kösen up behind Naumburg
• Weekend after Pentecost: Meet the pack Burger Alliance in Saaleck
• In early September: Park and Festival of Lights in the park

Specialty

The Kösener Saale- Unstrut wines are wine legally to the area Neuenburg Castle, Great location Naumburg seat of the gods.

The wines from Pforta Koeppel mountain are recognized specialties. The Pforta Koeppel mountain was first mentioned as a vineyard in 1147, is the oldest cultivation location of this vineyard.

Other Kösener individual layers are theater houses, Bad Kösen Nice view and Klosterhäseler Hasseltal.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Bad Kösen houses as a resort several rehab clinics. The Saale Rehab Clinic I and II as well as the children's rehabilitation hospital operated by the Group Lielje from wages. The Burgenland clinic is operated by the medinet AG.

Kathe Kruse moved in 1912 to Bad Kösen, where he built their dolls manufactory. In the GDR, it was the Kösener toy manufactory. In the factory that manufactures plush toys mainly today, in addition realistic animal plush animals also known licensed products are manufactured.

Founded in 1952 by Käthe Kruse's two sons, including the children's book author Max Kruse, workshops in Bad Pyrmont and Donauwörth in the Federal Republic of Germany. She herself retired in 1954 from the now state-owned company back and went to the West.

The country Kloster Pforta has its headquarters in Bad Kösen.

In Bad Kösen existed from 1893 to 1896, the organ builder army car.

Education

Bad Kosen currently owns 2 schools, the Mountain School (primary school) and the Borlachschule (Realschule). By 2004, the Medical Training College had a vocational school in the city, but then moved with this to Weissenfels. High school students from Bad Kösen visit the Domgymnasium Naumburg. The country Pforta, which is located in the former convent school gate, also belongs to Bad Kösen. It is a boarding school with scientific, linguistic or musical orientation.

Traffic

Bad Kösen is on the railway line Halle - Bebra just before the junction of the railway hall to Saalfeld about Jena and is approached with regional trains. As part of the construction of the new route from Nuremberg to Leipzig ( refer new line Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle and high-speed line Nuremberg -Erfurt ) is expected in 2015 the long distance between Leipzig and Halle and Erfurt can be relieving deducted from the Thuringian Railway.

The Federal Highway 87 runs through Kösen, it goes through the old town. For several years, plans to run for the bypasses Bad Kösen and Naumburg ( Saale) on the B 87 for the bypass Bad Kösen is construction law, for the associated bypass Naumburg the plan approval process to be completed by 2013. A construction is not expected before 2015. With the two bypasses the B is to be realigned between 87 and Taugwitz Wethau. The Saaletal would long new bridge up to 60 meters high bridge piers are spanned between Großheringen and Saaleck by an approximately 1200 m. This is rejected by critics who see it as a threat of the application for World Heritage status by Unesco for the region Saale- Unstrut. In the course of planning, the question was not examined the extent to which such consequences for the planned memorial area of the World Heritage Naumburg Saale valley. A consultation with ICOMOS and UNESCO did not take place.

The Saale Cycle Path leads through Bad Kösen.

The Ecumenical Pilgrimage from Görlitz to Vacha performs the incorporated district Punschrau.

Personalities

Freeman

• O. Th Rosenberger (1806-1893), bath and Miners doctor, Privy Medical Councillor ( appointed 1882)
• Roßner Ernst (1819-1893), mill owner ( appointed 1891)
• Friedrich von Feilitzsch (1858-1942), fürstl. Schaumburg- Lippe Minister of State ( appointed 1895)
• Karl Müller (1820-1901), Postmaster ( appointed 1899)
• Max Kruse (1854-1942), sculptor ( appointed 1924)
• Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934), Reich President ( appointed 1925)

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Ehrenfried Zschackwitz (1669-1744), historian and Herald
• Johann Gottfried Borlach (1687-1768), Elector of Saxony Bergrat
• Georg GRODDECK (1866-1934), pioneer of psychosomatic medicine and writer
• Gottlieb Wagner (1794-1878), legendary host of Rudelsburg
• Hans Fischerkoesen (* 1896 Hans Fischer -1973 ), cartoons and advertising films
• Max Kruse ( born 1921 ), children's book author
• Hans -Jochen Schmidt ( * 1947 ), diplomat

Known spa guests

Bad Kösen attracted musicians, writers, artists and thinkers. The painter Adolph Menzel and Max Liebermann sought and found here Thuringian their motives, the book halls of the two are probably the best known. Edvard Munch stayed for curative treatments from March 1906 to January 1907 in Kösen because of his nervous suffering. Besides Thuringian landscapes, self-portraits and stage designs especially the preparatory work for the " Reinhardt Frieze ", commissioned by Max Reinhardt for the new chamber games in the Schumannstraße 13a in Berlin emerged. Which represents the philosophers on the Rudelsburg, and his painting of the gardens of Bad Kösen - At Munch Time in Kösen also the portrait Friedrich Nietzsche ( museet, Oslo 1906, Munch) remember.