Available in town are 2,498* beds for guests, which out of 449,756* overnight stays have seen 270,306* stays by guests in rehabilitation clinics. 14,17 and Jean-Winckler-Str. Gerbergasse 3 three-floor corner house, Gerbergasse 5 three-floor corner shophouse, Grnderzeit clinker brick building with hipped mansard roof, 1885/1886, architect Josef Pfeiffer, Gbenstrae 4/4a three-and-a-half-floor, Gbenstrae 6/6a three-and-a-half-floor terraced houses, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1906, Architects Brothers Lang, Gbenstrae 8/10 pair of semi-detached houses, three-part brick-framed plastered building, 1903, architect Peter Ziemer, Goethestrae 2 villalike house, cube-shaped building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Peter Riedle, Goethestrae 4 villalike house, one-and-a-half-floor plastered building with hip or mansard roof, 1925/1926, architect Martin Au, Goethestrae 5 villalike house, one- and two-floor building with hip roof, 1925/1926, architect Martin Au, Goethestrae 7 villalike house, plastered building with hip or mansard roof, 1925/1926, architect Rudolf Hassinger; front garden fencing from time of building, Goethestrae 17, 9, Bhler Weg 8, 10, 12, Rntgenstrae 2/4, 6, 8, Pestalozzistrae 39, Waldemarstrae 21, 23, 25, 27 (monumental zone), Graf-Siegfried-Strae 8 villalike house, building with hip roof, 1920s, architect Martin Au, Gustav-Pfarrius-Strae 1115 Public Lina-Hilger-. Bad Kreuznach can be reached by car through the like-named interchange on the Autobahn A61 as well as on Bundesstraen 41, 48 and 428. The spa operations and the wellness tourism also hold a special place for the town as the world's oldest radon-brine spa and the Rhineland-Palatinate centre for rheumatic care. Knigliches Staatsarchiv Stuttgart (Hrsg. Since 1948, they have run it together with the Sisters of the Congregation of Papal Law of the Maids of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and today run it as a hospital bearing the classification II. [38] In 1507, Master Faust assumed the rector's post at the Kreuznach Latin school, which had been secured for him by Franz von Sickingen. The biggest club is VfL 1848 Bad Kreuznach, within which the first basketball department in any sport club in Germany was founded in 1935. [32] In 1828, 425 of the 7,896 inhabitants of the Brgermeisterei ("Mayoralty") of Kreuznach (5.4%) adhered to the Jewish faith, as did 611 of the town's 18,143 inhabitants (3.4%) in 1890. Kreuznach was mentioned in documents by Louis the Pious (in 823 as villa Cruciniacus[9] and in 825 and 839, as Cruciniacum castrum or Cruciniacum palatium regium), Louis the German (in 845 as villa Cruzinacha and in 868 as villa Cruciniacum), Charles III, "the Fat" (in 882 as C[h]rucinachum, Crutcinacha, Crucenachum), Arnulf of Carinthia (in 889), Henry the Fowler (in 923), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (in 962 as Cruciniacus) and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (in 1179 as Cruczennach). Used as the General staff building was the Oranienhof. Thus far, 15 persons have been named honorary citizens of the town of Bad Kreuznach. He was afterwards taken into protection by Ruprecht III of the Palatinate against a yearly payment of 10 Rhenish guilders. ). WebUS Army Rose Barracks - Bad Kreuznach/Germany Rose Kaserne der amerikanischen Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Bad Kreuznach Family Housing (1.7 mi.) On 9 June 1796, Kreuznach was once again occupied by the French. Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Strae 7 two-and-a-half-floor house, Dr.-Karl-Aschoff-Strae 8 elegant house; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1870; addition 1889. Bad Kreuznach is centrally located between many Army and Air Force bases; Mainz, Weisbaden, and Frankfurt are just a short drive north of Bad Kreuznach and Kaiserslautern and Ramstein are about an hour south. The parts of town that lay north of the Nahe were assigned to the Arrondissement of Simmern in the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle, whereas those that lay to the south were assigned to the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German). Bad Kreuznach (German pronunciation: [bat Die Stadt besitzt das lteste Radon-Sole-Bad der Welt, mehrere Kurkliniken und Gradierwerke sowie ein Rheumazentrum. 1986s Army Base BAD KREUZNACH Germany US Military Community Plaque Cold War Item Condition: Used Please look at all the pictures as they are part of the description, shows signs of use and wear Read more Price: US $69.99 Add to cart Best Offer: Make Offer Add to Watchlist 30-day returns Ships from United States 5 watchers At the Saunalandschaft bathhouse rose a "wellness temple" with 12 great saunas on an area of 4000m2, which receives roughly 80,000 visitors every year. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strae 5 villa resembling a country house; plastered building on quarrystone pedestal, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strae 6 villa resembling a country house; plastered building, partly timber-frame, 1907/1908, architect Hans Best, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strae 7 villa resembling a country house; building with half-hip roof, 1912/1913, architect Jean Rheinstdter, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strae 9/11 pair of, Friedrichstrae 4 lordly villa on irregular footprint with hip and, Friedrichstrae 5 two-and-a-half-floor villa; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1870, Friedrichstrae 6 three-floor corner house, Renaissance Revival, about 1870, Friedrichstrae 8 two-and-a-half-floor villa; cube-shaped building with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1870. Dr.-Geisenheyner-Strae 3 villalike house; cube-shaped tented-roof building, 1927, architect Peter Riedle. In 1279, in the Battle of Sprendlingen, the legend of Michel Mort arose. Bad Kreuznach has roughly 1,600 businesses with at least one employee, thereby offering 28,000 jobs, of which half are filled by commuters who come into town from surrounding areas. Yakovos Bilek (19172005), German-Turkish basketball player, Werner Danz (19231999), German politician (FDP), Rudolf Anheuser (19242009), basketball functionary, Peter Anheuser (born 1938); architect, former Member of the Landtag, town councillor, Fridel Grenz (born 1929), church musician at, Carsten Prksen (born 1944), Member of the Landtag, Ursula Reindell (born 1946), painter and sculptor (2008 Cultural Prize winner), Walter Brusius (born 1950), painter (1999 Cultural Prize winner), Kurt-Ulrich Mayer (born 1950), politician (CDU) professor and chairman of the, Gernot Meyer-Grnhof (born 1951), visual artist, Frank Leske (born 1965), sculptor (2002 Cultural Prize winner), Beate Rux-Voss, cantor at Paul's Evangelical Church (, Alexander Esters (born 1977), painter and sculptor, Bad Kreuznach is known among photographers as the home of, This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 03:44. Also called Jean Englebert Olivier from Luxembourg, publisher of Giovanni Domenico Candela: Letter from 13 June 1508 from "Crewtznach"; Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz (Bestand A.1 33/2435); Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (Bestand C2 Salbcher, 510/1). In 1183, half of the old Frankish village of Kreuznach at the former Roman castrum the Osterburg burnt down. In fact, the name Kreuznach developed out of the Celtic-Latin word Cruciniacum, which meant "Crucinius's Home", thus a man's name with the suffix acum added, meaning "flowing water". Since it moved away to Bingen, Bad Kreuznach has been offering collegelike training for aspirant winemakers and agricultural technologists with the DLR (Dienstleistungszentrum Lndlicher Raum). Bad Kreuznach is also officially a groe kreisangehrige Stadt ("large town belonging to a district"), meaning that it does not have the district-level powers that kreisfreie Stdte ("district-free towns/cities") enjoy. [45] On 19 August 1663, the town was stricken by an extraordinarily high flood on the river Nahe.[46]. In 1904, the pharmacist Karl Aschoff discovered the Kreuznach brine's radon content, and thereafter introduced "radon balneology", a therapy that had already been practised in the Austro-Hungarian town of Sankt Joachimsthal in the Bohemian Ore Mountains (now Jchymov in the Czech Republic). Kreuznach lay on the Roman road that led from Metz (Divodurum), by way of the Saar crossing near Dillingen-Pachten (Contiomagus) and the Vicus Wareswald, near Tholey to Bingen am Rhein (Bingium). The three crosses patte (that is, with the ends somewhat broader than the rest of the crosses' arms) are a canting charge, referring to the town's name, the German word for "cross" being Kreuz. WebMemories from Army Days in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1968. All together, the town was visited by 92,700 overnight guests (*as of 31 December 2010). The inhalatorium was destroyed in 1945. Precipitation varies only slightly. [12] In mediaeval and early modern Latin sources, Kreuznach is named not only as Crucenacum, Crucin[i]acum (adjective Crucenacensis, Crucin[i]acensis) and the like, but also as Stauronesus, Stauronesum (adjective Staurone[n]s[i]us; from "cross" and "island"[13]) or Naviculacrucis (from navicula, a kind of small boat used on inland waterways, called a Nachen in German, and crux "cross"). WebBad Kreuznach Army Base | Rhine River at Bingen, Germany L Leo Perron Germany In Schlostrae 5 guesthouse, three-floor cube-shaped building with hip roof, Schffenstrae 3 two-and-a-half-floor house, brick building, 1892, architect August Henke, Schne Aussicht 1 residential building, long building with hip roof, 1927/1928, architect Wolfgang Goecke, Schne Aussicht 3/5/7/9 long building with hip roof and corner oriels, 1924/1925, architect Gruben. [1] Listed here are Bad Kreuznach's mayors since Napoleonic times: The town's arms might be described thus: On an escutcheon argent ensigned with a town wall with three towers all embattled Or, a fess countercompony Or and azure between three crosses patte sable. In the spa zone, there is also the "Sana" Rhineland-Palatinate Rheumatic Centre, made up of a rheumatic hospital and a rehabilitation clinic, the Karl-Aschoff-Klinik. On the bridge over to the ait (or the Wrth as it is called locally; the river island between the two parts of town) stood the Brckentor ("Bridge Gate"). March 1945 When the 4th Armored Division and the 1303rd Engineer Battalion of Gen Patton's Third US Army occupy Bad Kreuznach between 16-18 March 1945, US Army medical troops take over the installation as a field hospital. In the course of measures to shore up the Imperial border against the Germanic Alemannic tribes who kept making incursions across the limes into the Empire, an auxiliary castrum was built in 370 under Emperor Valentinian I. Also available to the spa operations are six spa clinics, spa sanatoria, the thermal brine movement bath "Crucenia Thermen" with a salt grotto, a radon gallery, graduation towers in the Salinental (dale), the brine-fogger in the Kurpark (spa park) set up as open-air inhalatoria and the "Crucenia Gesundheitszentrum" ("Crucenia Health Centre") for ambulatory spa treatment. From Bingen am Rhein, Regionalbahn trains run by way of the Alsenz Valley Railway, which branches off the Nahe Valley Railway in Bad Mnster am Stein, to Kaiserslautern, reaching it in roughly 65 minutes. The first field hockey department in a Bad Kreuznach sport club, however, was the Kreuznacher HC, which made it to the semi-finals at the German Championship in 1960, and which to this day stages the Easter Hockey Tournament. Salinenstrae 92/94, Moltkestrae 8 sophisticated three-wing building with hip roof, Salinenstrae 95 Grnderzeit bungalow, clinker brick building with hipped, Salinenstrae 113/115 pair of semi-detached houses, spire light gable with half-hips, Renaissance Revival and Art Nouveau motifs, 1907/1908, architect Fritz Wagner, Salinenstrae 114/116 Doppelvilla, langgestreckter building with hip roof, 1921/1922, architect Hans Best. The town can also attract new investment with its economic conversion areas. Since this election, the town has been run by a Jamaica coalition of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, the Free Democratic Party and the Greens. 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