Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg is a spa town in Rhineland -Palatinate and the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name and is located 6 km south of Bad Kreuznach and 50 km south-west of Mainz.
Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg received on 29 April 1978, the city has rights and recognition as a mineral spa and health resort.
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 Town twinning
- 4.1 Museums
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 personalities
Geographical location
Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg is 108-320 meters above sea level at the foot of boars Castle in a hilly region with forests and vineyards, surrounded by the rock formations of the Rheingraf stone and red rock on the Nahe.
The largest expanse of salt works in Germany ( 1.4 km ) extends Salinental of the neighboring town of Bad Kreuznach to the health resort Bad Münster.
History
The present city of Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg was from projects launched in the second half of the 1960s, Rhineland-Palatinate, administrative and territorial reform on June 7, 1969 the previously independent municipalities Bad Münster ( 2,261 inhabitants) and Ebernburg ( 1,671 inhabitants ) newly formed as a local church under the name " Bad Münster- Ebernburg ". On November 1, 1969, the community was renamed in "Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg ". The city rights were granted on 29 April 1978. On July 1, 2014, Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform a district of the neighboring town of Bad Kreuznach.
While Bad Münster from 1815 to 1945 was Prussian, boars castle belonged during this period the Bavarian Palatinate and was the northernmost municipality. The history of the different parts of the city lives to this day in the Church's membership by Bad Münster, however, belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland or the Diocese of Trier, Ebernburg to form the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Bishopric of Speyer.
Bad Münster am Stein
The first mention of Münster was around the year 1200. The town was founded below the Rheingrafenstein. Until the 19th century there was a village with a few houses around the old St. Martin's Church. The population was dedicated to the salt extraction, fishing and some farming close and at times the copper mining in Huttental.
1859 Near Valley Railway was built in 1871 Alsenztalbahn what the place with its occupied since 1478 bathing the decisive upturn allowed for the much-frequented spa, which was 1905, the name " Bad" awarded. Basis are still the radon-rich brine springs.
During the Second World War the area was destroyed by the railway bridge towards Salinental by numerous bomb attacks in part. To date, Bad Münster has a rail connection and lies on the line Bingen- Kaiserslautern and Mainz- Saarbrücken.
A strong face change learned the place in the postwar years to the present day through the expansion of spa infrastructure.
Ebernburg
Ebernburg been since the Middle Ages an important village with a long tradition in agriculture and viticulture. The first written record dates from 1212, when the Counts of Saarbrücken to the monastery of St. Cyriacus in Worms gave the Ebernburger church.
In the 14th century even the survey was planned to the city. The old town, the old village that is evident today in the cityscape seen was surrounded for centuries by a wall with a link to Ebernburg. Since the beginning of the end of the 19th century Sanatorium activities Ebernburg has experienced a rapid enlargement outside the town walls, which is not yet completed. Around the turn of the century to the 20th century, therefore, the wall was laid up on the still visible foundations of a city tower.
Policy
City council
The city council in Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.
Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:
Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system at the local elections (personalized proportional representation ), the percentage shown in the graph are voting shares as a " weighted results " reported, which may reflect the voting behavior only arithmetically.
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In black with silver lace is schweifter, is a growing conical red round tower with cantilevered vierzinnigem wreath and two black nicks, front five silver balls 2:1:2 found behind a rising goldbekronter and rotbezungter silver lion. "
Twinning
Culture and sights
The city's attractions include the rock formations of the Red Rock, the Rheingrafenstein with the same castle ruins directly on the Nahe and the castle Ebernburg.
Since 1729 the present form of the salt works is occupied for salt extraction in Bad Münster am Stein. The weak salty water of the brine source is funded earlier by water wheels, now electrically driven pumps the salt works. From there, it trickles into a countless amount of water drops on the 8 m high blackthorn walls down into a catch basin, while the air in the area with various salt components such as iodine, bromine and strontium ions and the noble gas radon is enriched. The evaporation of water during the trickle down into the catch basin of the salt gradient is ( part) of the brine increases. The water wheels and a part of the art (poles for power transmission ) are yet to look at.
Oldest profane building in the town is the former Electoral Palatinate sub- office in the Castle Road 13 in the lintel of the Renaissance part of the year 1556 is engraved. Investigations of this part of the building also show even older ruins of the Middle Ages among the Renaissance walls.
As the oldest property of the district Bad Münster applies the 1560 first mentioned " Hahnenhof ", a former rheingräflicher manor. The narrow, so-called tithe barn with half-timbered upper floor was the former tax office for kind.
The 1911 Art Nouveau northern character therapy center in the park is one of the most beautiful half-timbered building in the region. It contains the fountain hall with the two mineral springs Maximilian source and Rheingraf source, and ascend into three glass tubes.
Special events are the medieval " Ebernburger market " on the third weekend in September and the Christmas market in the park.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg
Museums
In the natural therapy center station is near the premises of the former homeland museum housed where in the warm season the animals of the region can be considered, especially in the Middle domestic dice snake.
Economy and infrastructure
Spa guests were in the past decades, a significant source of revenue, after several years in which the cure was rapidly declining, the number of guests slowly rising again. Most business establishments in the city are tourism businesses ( harboring, restaurants) and wineries. Also, there is a cork wire factory, are produced in the shutter wires for sparkling wine and champagne closures.
Traffic
The city lies on the Nahe Valley Railway Bingen -Saarbrücken; the station Bad Münster am Stein branches from the Alsenztalbahn to Kaiserslautern. It is in the area of the Rhein -Nahe - transport network. The Ebernburg station was abandoned in the 1970s.
By car Bad Münster am Stein- Ebernburg on the B48 as well as on the state roads 235 and 379 can be reached.
Personalities
- Francis of SICKINGEN (* 1481 in Castle Ebernburg, † 1523 Nanstein Castle ), Office man in the Castle boars, bears occasionally known as the " Last Knight". Sponsors of Protestantism.
- Heinrich Georg Rung (1854-1931), worked 43 years as pastor of boars Castle; Heimatgeschichtler, co-founder and Chairman of the North Palatine Historical Society.
- Max Kuna ( † 1989), honorary citizen of the city
- Heinrich Lorenz (1898-1966), born in the house Lawrence, captain of the greatest German passenger liner Bremen, winning the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing.
- Anna Kubach - Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach, sculptor
- Ulrike Piechota (* 1942), writer
- Sigune from the East ( b. 1950 ), singer and music professor