Bad Wilsnack

Bad Wilsnack is a spa town and a former place of pilgrimage in the Prignitz district in the northwest of Brandenburg ( Germany ).

The small town is the seat of the office Bad Wilsnack / ways. At this office include except Bad Wilsnack and ways communities Breese, Legde / Quitzöbel and Rühstädt. Landmark of the city is a former pilgrimage church, the miracle Blood Church of St. Nicholas.

  • 3.1 Amalgamations
  • 4.1 City Council
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 Thermal
  • 5.2 Structures
  • 5.3 history
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Established businesses

Geography

Bad Wilsnack is located on the southwestern edge of the Prignitz, just north of the mouth of the river Havel in the Elbe, approximately half of the railway line between Berlin and Hamburg. The city lies on the Karthane, a small river which rises in the heart of Prignitz and flows into the Elbe at Wittenberg. The whole area around Bad Wilsnack is part of the Brandenburg biosphere reserve Elbe River Landscape - Brandenburg. Only a few kilometers south of the city lies the " stork village " Rühstädt.

Neighboring communities

Bad Wilsnack is bordered by the communes ( clockwise starting from the north ): Pearl Mountain, plate castle, Legde / Quitzöbel, Rühstädt, Beuster, Wittenberg, and Breese.

Boroughs

The town of Bad Wilsnack include the inhabited parts of communes

  • Great Lüben
  • Moult
  • Karthan
  • Small Lüben
  • Scharleuk

And the district Pit with the inhabited part of municipality Sigrön. Arnoldsruh, Kampehl and flanks are also living spaces in Bad Wilsnack.

Cityscape

The cityscape Bad Wilsnacks is characterized by the miracle Blood Church on the Great Road. Are the Old Town Hall, a timber-framed building from the 18th century, and the New Town Hall from 1865, now seat of the Office Bad Wilsnack / ways along this road. The Great Road is worth seeing because of a variety of mostly two-story half-timbered houses, many dating back to the late 17th century and are under preservation order. See the list of monuments in Bad Wilsnack. So the house Great Road 27 was built in 1692. It has two entrances, despite the narrow front. Listed building and former chemists, Große Straße 25, is the buildings, partly pure residential houses, some with shops on the ground floor, were rehabilitated after the turn.

History

1384 Wilsnack, whose early history was determined by its location in the Wendish- Saxon border area was mentioned for the first time in a document. The occasion was the destruction of the church, called as the knight Heinrich von Bülow Grotekop on August 15, 1383 the place and let them burn down. In the ruins of blood miracle hosts were found on the altar. After 1384 they built the church again. Until the mid-16th century Wilsnack was a place of pilgrimage for believers from many countries. The pilgrimage ended with the burning of the wafers by a Protestant clergyman. In prelate house had from 1560, the family of Saldern, who held the patronage of the Church, are located here The mansion was expanded in 1780 to a castle. It burned down in 1976. In the Thirty Years' War Wilsnack was sacked by imperial, Saxon, Danish and Swedish troops. City fires caused multiple damages, around the years 1690, 1703 and 1826 and 1828th On September 2, 1826 85 families lost their homes, 24 homes were destroyed by fire. Severe damage took Wilsnack 1709 by a fraction of Elbdeichs.

1846, the railway line Hamburg-Berlin was ( distance north of the Elbe) completed. Bad Wilsnack is located on this route, a modest economic recovery began. The city forester Gustav Zimmermann discovered in 1899 curative peat. Wilsnack then developed into a health resort; Zimmermann had bog samples sent in a herring box to Berlin and get checked, the certified iron content confirmed the Kurfähigkeit the healing earth. 1929, the village name was changed in Bad Wilsnack. The city became a convalescent center in the region. City forester Gustav Zimmermann was in 1900 to create a park. In memory of Zimmermann 2006, a memorial stone was unveiled in front of the Kurhalle.

At the turn 1989/1990 every Monday about a thousand people gathered from October 1989, initially in the blood miracle church to pray for peace. The following candles procession followed the example of the Monday demonstrations in major cities of the GDR. The first post-reunification mayor Bad Wilsnacks, Dietrich Gappa, was elected in May 1990 in the former Sanctuary. That same year, religious instruction was given in the school. In 1993, Bad Wilsnack extensions of the Kurhaus.

Incorporations

Large and small Lubin Lubin belong since 1 February 1974 to Bad Wilsnack. Mine was incorporated on 31 December 2001.

Policy

City Council

The city council consists of 16 councilors.

  • 6 seats: CDU
  • 4 seats: FDP
  • 1 seat UWG BW
  • 1 seat: SPD
  • 1 seat: The Left
  • 1 seat UWG pit
  • 1 seat: List Association Kurgesellschaft - Kneippverein
  • 1 Head Office: EB Brandl

(As at municipal election held on September 28, 2008 )

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 8 January 1992.

Blazon: " Azure, on a green ground a silver church with red roof and roof - geschindeltem rider, black door, black windows and a round tower on either side of the portal; the towers have black - beknaufte red pointed roofs. "

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Bad Wilsnack are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments. The Brandenburg Summer Concerts guesting approximately every four years in the miracle Blood Church of St. Nicholas.

Spa

  • Thermal bath with four thermal healing water pools with different brine concentration
  • Outdoor pool with Wildbachstrudler
  • Gemstone meditation cave
  • Eight themed saunas and two steam rooms, ice-fog grotto
  • Ottoman hammam and sauna bistro
  • Salt water wall and sauna
  • Indoor and Außensalzsee with 24 % hydrochloric Sole

Structures

  • Miracle Blood Church of St. Nicholas (formerly Sanctuary )
  • Old town with half -timbered houses and Marketplace
  • Castle pit
  • Graduation

History

  • On the municipal cemetery recalls since 1965 a memorial stone to the former Jewish cemetery and thus the Jewish citizens of the place
  • Wilsnack was in the Middle Ages one of the five most famous Catholic pilgrimage sites and destinations of the pilgrimage route from Berlin to Wilsnack

Infrastructure and economy

Traffic

Bad Wilsnack is best connected by train ( Berlin-Hamburg route ). Near the village of pit B 5 passes. 20 km west and 15 kilometers east of Bad Wilsnack extend the federal highways 107 and 189 in the north-south direction. The motorway Meyenburg on the A 24 is 48 km away. The next Elbübergänge are in Wittenberg ( bridge) and Sandau ( Elbe) ( ferry).

Established businesses

In addition to craft the KMG Kliniken AG with Elbe Valley clinic, a clinic specializing in orthopedics and rheumatology, the therapy center, the senior citizens' residence and the hotel ambience, the Crystal Spa and Brine and Cleo Writing Instruments GmbH larger employers Bad Wilsnacks. The Cleo Writing Instruments GmbH has its headquarters in the former Jahn school, which was built in 1911.

Since 1995, the then North German metal trade association established (now BG wood and metal) an educational institution in Bad Wilsnack. Here about 100 to 120 participants are informed weekly on OSH.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Georg Wehling (1644-1719), teacher and writer, Head of the Council School in Szczecin
  • Wilhelm Harnisch (1787-1864), theologian and educator
  • Hugo player (1854-1922), sculptor
  • Christoph Lütgert (* 1945), journalist and author
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