Bad Salzig

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Location of Bad Salty in Rhineland -Palatinate

Bad Salty is one of ten local districts of the left-bank town of Boppard. On the right side of the Rhine against the Hostile Brothers Liebenstein and Sterrenberg castle rising high above the Rhine. Until 31 December 1975 Salty bathroom was a separate municipality.

• 4.1 Road traffic
• 4.2 Rail transport
• 4.3 waterway

Geography

Climate

The annual rainfall is 667 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 33% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.7 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 1% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Salty bath is located on the historic Roman road which ran along the Rhine from Mainz Koblenz to Cologne. On a Roman station directory of 215 emerges a place Salissone, but it is unclear whether it really is today's bathroom salty. 1859 two milestones from the Roman imperial period ( 3rd century ) were drawn from the Rhine, now in the Rheinische Landesmuseum in Bonn.

A place called Salzachu, mentioned in a deed of gift from King Conrad I. to the Abbey of St. Ursula ( confirmed by Herman I, Archbishop of Cologne, 922 ) is generally recognized as the first documentary mention.

Over the next centuries the places to Boppard remained free before it was confiscated by King Henry VII, who his brother, the Archbishop Baldwin of Trier, 1327 handed. End of the 15th century there was unsuccessful rebellions Salzigs against the rule of the Electorate of Trier.

Damage by foreign domination suffered Salty during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the invasion of the troops of Louis XIV in the Rhineland (1688 /89) as well as in the Napoleonic period ( 1794-1814 ).

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the story of Salty coincides generally with that of the Prussian Rhine Province (1822 ). In particular, is considered a landmark for the town's development, the opening of the spa industry in 1907 by importance. The salty - sulfur springs were indeed already known since the 18th century, but only Captain Theodor Hoffmann, who had acquired the land in 1899, they managed to drill them. At a depth of 449 m was after several attempts 28 ° C thermal water can be obtained. The addition of " Bad" wears salty but only since 1925. Since 2003, the initiator of the bath is a memorial at the entrance to the park set.

On December 31, 1975 Bad Salty was incorporated into the new municipality of Boppard.

Like other places in the Middle Rhine Valley has to cope with a strong population decline Bad salty, from the peak in 1973 with 3,424 inhabitants, the population has now fallen below 2,500.

Policy

The town council in Bad Salty consists of 13 volunteer council members, who were last elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman also. The municipal election in 2009 brought for the CDU five, four SPD, Free Voters group Boppard three seats and for the citizens of Boppard one seat

Traffic

Road

Between the local district of Bad Salty and Rhein B 9 This 1968 built bypass road is improved quality tourism through the village relief from through traffic.

Rail transport

Bad Salty has the rail breakpoint Boppard-Bad Salty on the left Rhine line. This breakpoint is operated 32 Mainz- Koblenz, in the hour of the transport line MRB and thus also connects Bad Salty with the main town of Boppard. The breakpoint has two platform tracks with 295 m length and a platform height of 34 cm. Since the platform height should be unified at all stops and stations across the river Rhine route to 76 cm, the Boppard City Council decided in 2011 to modernize the breakpoint in Bad Salty in subsequent years and in particular to increase the platform edge.

The breakpoint was once a train station. Opened this was in 1881. The station building still exists today and is a listed building. It is used as a cultural and social center. In the attic of the old station, a home museum.

Shipping

Since the 19th century the roads of the town was used later to 1980, the customs office bathroom Salty Light was established at the.

1968 Bad Salty was involved in the Rhine Cologne - Düsseldorf.

From Bad Salty ( 564.3 km ) of the Rhine in the second largest waterway belonging to CEMT- class (VIc ) is classified.

Attractions

• The neo-Gothic parish church of St. Giles, built in 1901 using older buildings, dating back to Vorläuferbauten that can be dated to the 10th century. The patron saint, Giles St. Gilles, is represented as a wood sculpture from the 14th century on the high altar, with its characteristic attribute of the doe. The right of the three late Gothic stained glass windows in the choir also provides the emergency responders with the animal dar. The other two stained glass windows (left: Christ's baptism in the Jordan, center: Christ between two angels ) come from the same time. In the left aisle is a Pietà from the second half of the 15th century.
• 2008, a museum of local history was in the cultural and social center " Old Station " opened. It documents the history of Bad Salzigs as a wine and Obstort as well as a spa resort with photographs, documents and implements.

Vineyards and orchards

Winegrowing in this section of the Middle Rhine has been known since the Middle Ages. While the known steep slopes of Boppard Hamm (80 % Riesling) produce wines of first-class quality, which are regularly awarded, the viticulture has never recovered around salty after the devastation that brought the introduction of phylloxera in the 19th century with it. End of the 18th century, an inventory of the Electorate of Trier had tallied over 400,000 vines. Had a Koblenz Weinhandelshaus both white and red wine from Salty on offer. The grape varieties are no longer comprehensible.

Conversely stairs was on fruit growing, especially cherries. In the years 1948-1960 a traditional blossom festival with flower queen and parades took place once a year. Even today, the cherry blossom in spring around the place is a tourist attraction. On the outbound from the resort area hiking trails through the cherry orchards, the weathered boundary walls of former vineyards are still recognizable.

Spa

From depth of 446 m bubbled since 1907 many years the healing waters of the carbonated alkaline muratischen Leonorenquelle ( Glaubersalzquelle ), which was qualified as " sodium - chloride - bicarbonate - sulfate mineral spring " and was used for drinking cures. The same time drilled Barbara source was 280 m deep. It is, however, Sands today. The mineral spring protection of Leonorenquelle expired in 2004 and was not renewed by the public sector. After the source was blocked for decades and came only a little water to days and since the source is important for the bathroom Salty identity, let her owner the German Pension Insurance Rhineland -Palatinate clean them in 2011. The Bunnenbauer away at a depth of 217 m a closure. Since then, the source brings back 3000 liters per hour out, earlier it was 400 liters.

The Middle Rhine Hospital (178 beds), today announced a rehabilitation clinic of the German pension insurance Rhineland-Palatinate for gastroenterological, oncological and psychosomatic illnesses, prescribed with the water that is no more acidulous, no more drinking cures.

The expansive park with historic trees, pond and boardwalk paths belongs to the Middle Rhine Clinic with leisure and entertainment offer for the patients, but also to the public. For spa area includes the historic bath house with the former pump room, which was redesigned by the artist Ursula Bertram. The spring water of Leonor source that is no longer used for therapeutic purposes, can be sampled here.

Am Kurpark also stands as the Park Hotel, which was built in 1908 by Miss Emma consolation for spa guests. After an eventful history it is now a contemporary claims customized locale for conventions and spa packages.

Environment / Trails

By the spa gardens of Bad Salty is the Rheinburgenweg, the as -long-distance hiking trail both north towards Boppard ( Rhine height Eisenbolz with cherry orchards ) and south ( orchards direction Hirzenach ) attractive viewpoints on the Rhine, Bad Salty, the opposite localities ( Kamp- Bornhofen and Kestert ) and the hostile Brothers binds.

In addition, there are at Rheinburgenweg from the spa bath Salty from since the summer of 2012, a so-called dream loop ( circular route 10.5 km). This goes to the rocky Hochlay and to the viewpoint of Five Lakes View ( rest area with daybed in a curve of coming down from the Fleckertshöhe road ), continue uphill on the Fleckertshöhe and back down again. Orchards through in the cozy Weilerbachtal On laying prone viewpoint Praying nun over and through the village hamlet of the loop runs above the village of Bad Salty back to the park.