Bad Zwesten

Bad Arolsen is a community in the Schwalm- Eder district in northern Hesse ( Germany ). It has a mineral spring, known as the Bad Zwestener lion soda. The place is a resort with two clinics, which since 1992 the additional name Bad leads as a healing source Kurbetrieb and health resort.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Jewish Community
  • 4.1 Municipal Council
  • 4.2 Mayor
  • 4.3 partnerships
  • 6.1 Economics
  • 6.2 Kurbetrieb
  • 6.3 clinics
  • 6.4 Leisure
  • 6.5 Football
  • 6.6 traffic
  • 6.7 Education 6.7.1 schools
  • 6.7.2 kindergartens

Geography

Geographical Location

Bad Arolsen is in the eastern foothills of the basement Forest approximately 8 km (air line ) southeast of Bad Wildungen. The village and its districts located in the valleys of Wälzebach, Urff and Schwalm, a southern tributary of the Eder. He also is on the eastern border of the nature park basement Edersee. The southern districts Oberurff - Schiffelborn and Niederurff are located on the Urff which opens below Niederurff in the Schwalm. The highest point is 636 meters high Hunsrück in the basement Forest, not to be confused with the west of the Rhine Hunsrück hills.

Neighboring communities

Bad Arolsen is bordered to the north by the city of Fritzlar, on the east by the city of Borken, in the south on the communities Neuental and Jesberg (all in the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis), and in the west on the community of Haina and the town of Bad Wildungen (both in Waldeck- Frankenberg ).

Community structure

  • Betzigerode
  • Niederurff
  • Oberurff - Schiffelborn
  • Wenzigerode
  • Bad Arolsen ( council offices )

History

Zwesten was 817 for the first time in the Codex Eberhardi mentioned as Tuwesten documented. 1538 came to Zwestener Blood Wedding, in which it was violent clashes between nobles and peasants of the village.

The well-known for centuries Sauerbrunnen south of the village in 1914 provided with a wellhead. From 1922, the source was economically used by a bottling plant as Zwestener lion soda. Already in 1932, the source was recognized as " non-profit ", 1960 declared nationally recognized medicinal source. They laid the foundation for tourism.

In 1992, the community was a health resort. Here, she was awarded and the name in Bad Arolsen changed the predicate spa. The predicate was changed in 2012 to Kurbetrieb spa and health resort.

Incorporations

As part of the municipal reform in Hesse, the formerly independent communities Betzigerode, Niederurff, Oberurff - Schiffelborn, Wenzigerode and Zwesten joined at 31 December 1971 together with the new total community Arolsen.

Jewish Community

Jewish citizens were first mentioned in 1646 as Zwesten protected Jews. Middle of the 18th century lived 15 Jewish families with 61 people in the place. In the neighboring villages Oberurff and Niederurff lived at that time 21 and 43 Jewish people. Probably a synagogue was built in Arolsen to 1741, which was first mentioned in 1769. Beginning of the 20th century were involved through clubs and associations as well as their participation in the First World War, active in community life, the Jewish citizens. During the pogroms of November 1938, the synagogue was desecrated and then used as a barn, which was demolished in 1969. 1938 lived 84 Jewish citizens in Bad Arolsen, many of whom left the place. The last family was deported in 1941 by the gendarmerie in Jesberg, so that the place in the National Socialist sense was considered free of Jews.

Coat of arms

On September 15, 1967, the municipality Arolsen in the former county Fritzlar -Homberg was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon: in a silver and blue diagonally - left divided shield above a growing gold -crowned red lion, down a silver cup with the rising bubble beads.

Policy

Municipal council

Mayor

Since 1999, Michael Köhler ( FDP) Mayor of Bad Arolsen. In the direct election on 27 March 2011, he was elected for a third term in 2017. Before that were 1960-1976 Heinrich Schmidt ( SPD) and 1976-1999 Heinrich Haupt (SPD ) full-time mayor of the municipality.

Partnerships

The village of Bad Arolsen has official partnerships with Chaumont -en- Vexin (France, 1986 ) and Finsterbergen ( Thuringia, since 1991).

Culture and sights

The Evangelical Church in Bad Arolsen has been built in the Middle Ages as a fortified church. It has the tower on loopholes and has in parts still on a 2-3 m high fortified walls, also with loopholes.

The Arolsen castle consists of a manor house and a so-called Cavalier House, the former servants' quarters. The complex of buildings at the southern edge built in the 18th century as an agricultural farm estate. The manor was William Treusch Buttlar build in 1782. The neo-classical building is called 1915 Castle since the construction of a portico. Today the plant is used as a doctor's office, House and Spa Hotel.

About 1 km north- west of the village on Kellerwaldsteig is on the way to 368 m above sea level. NN high leakage pot of the arm-chair. It is a stone with a chair -like seat. At his worries can be unloaded, as evidenced by altar moderate left behind objects of visitors symbolic.

Since 1995, there is a local museum in a historic tenement house in the center. It represented the history and presents historical furnishings from the region.

2000 were created the privately-initiated Bad Zwestener Meisterkonzerte to life in Bad Arolsen. The events of the series of concerts featuring mainly classical and contemporary music mostly take place in the Kurhaus or the Hardt Forest Clinic II.

When Bad Zwestener district Oberurff - Schiffelborn the castle ruins Lowenstein is on a 341 m above sea level. NN high elevation. From the castle ruins, the castle well and a vaulted cellars still remain. The remains of buildings were secured consuming 2002. The keep was made ​​accessible and is accessible as a lookout. It offers extensive views over the Schwalm gate, the valley of Urff and the National Park Region cellar -Edersee.

In the district Niederurff is a fortified church, which formed a unit with the castle Niederurff. Of the defensive walls with loopholes and the moat are still preserved. The castle was the seat of the Lords of Urff.

The Oberurff castle is located in the district Oberurff - Schiffelborn. It is a neo-Baroque building, in 1877, built by Prince Philipp von Hanau- Hořovice, the youngest son of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse- Kassel from his morganatic marriage with Gertrude Lehmann. Since 1952 it is used as a boarding school.

By Bad Arolsen leads the Kellerwaldsteig, a loop trail in the Nature Park basement Edersee. The -appointed with works of art Barbarossaweg X8 passes to the north of the municipality at the district Wenzigerode. The artists' initiative Ars Natura also has a trail (marked X8a ) established between Wenzigerode and the nucleus Bad Arolsen as an art trail.

A popular destination is the location on the eastern edge of the municipality to Neuental and Borken mountain Altenburg ( 433 m above sea level. NN ) with remnants of the same name Ringwallanlage Altenburg. With an observation tower, it offers a view of Bad Arolsen, the Hawk Forest, the Osthessische mountains and the National Park Region cellar -Edersee.

Home house local history museum

Ev. Church, formerly fortified church with a circular defensive wall

Schloss Arolsen

The arm-chair made ​​of stone

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

The town of Bad Arolsen has adequate infrastructure and provides adequate shopping.

Kurbetrieb

The flourishing recovery of Bad Arolsen as a spa and health resort based on a source area with several mineral springs in the southern closest to your location. Economically, a source for the production of bathroom Zwestener lion soda is used, another is used for drinking cures in Kurbetrieb. The sources are on the road to Niederurff in a park-like grounds framed, the spa at the Lion bubble. Another facility is the Kurpark spa gardens in the spa village north.

Clinics

Above the spa town located on a hill, the Hardt Forest Clinic I ( Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics ) and the Hardt Forest Clinic II (analytical psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine, behavioral therapy and psychodrama ). Both clinics have about 650 beds. Furthermore, at the Hardt Forest Clinic Neurological Center Bad Arolsen the I, in which there is an acute neurological clinic connected.

In autumn Kurpark

Hardt Forest Clinic I, observatory, in the background the mountain Altenburg

Hardt Forest Clinic II above the village

Leisure

Near the village at the foot of the mountain Altenburg there is a camp which is situated on the Schwalm. On the run since 1961 e of the Camping Club Kassel V. space leads past a cycle path. For canoeists, motorcyclists, cyclists and walkers, the campsite offers accommodation in trekking lodges.

Football

The syndicate Bad Arolsen / Urfftal was incorporated in 1987 from the FC Rot - Weiß Bad Arolsen eV and the TSV Urfftal 08 eV forth. Today, the gaming community has several youth, men's, women's and senior football teams. The first men's team currently plays in the county league A Schwalm- Eder, the reserve team in the league circle C. Since 2013 there is a women's team, she plays in the county league A North Hesse.

Traffic

Bad Arolsen is located at the intersection of highways 3 and 485 to Federal Highway 49 (Kassel - Fritzlar - Marburg ) junction Borken / Bad Arolsen is about 5 km.

The community belongs to the North-Hessian Transport Association, which offers a Anrufsammeltaxi to Borken railway station on the Main- Weser -Bahn et al.

Education

Train

In Bad Arolsen there are two schools:

  • Altenburg School, Bad Arolsen ( primary school )
  • CJD Youth Village Christophorusschule, Oberurff ( junior high school and high school with boarding facilities )

Kindergartens

  • Kindergarten Kassel Straße, Bad Arolsen
  • Kindergarten Betzigeröder way Bad Arolsen

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Heinrich Haupt ( b. 1948 ), former Member of Parliament
  • Martin Häusling ( b. 1961 ), member of the European Parliament
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