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Bad Bertrich is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a
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belonging to a ''
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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
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in
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,
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Ulmen, whose seat is in the like-named town. The municipality is a state-owned spa (''Staatsbad'') and a health resort (''Kurort'').


Geography


Location

The municipality lies in the southern
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in the Üßbach valley near the
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.


Constituent communities

Bad Bertrich's ''
Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located ...
e'' are the main centre, also called Bad Bertrich, and the outlying centre of Kennfus.


History

Even as long ago as Roman Emperors Valentinian's and
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’s time, stately bathing houses were being built in ''Bertriacum''. In 1097, Bad Bertrich had its first documentary mention in an ownership document from Archbishop Egilbert of Trier. In 1476, the village became an Electoral-Trier state-owned spa.
Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (German language, German: ''Clemens Wenzeslaus August Hubertus Franz Xaver von Sachsen'') (28 September 1739 – 27 July 1812) was a Saxon prince from the House of Wettin and the Archbishopric of Trier, Archbishop-E ...
, the last Elector of Trier, had the little Electoral palace built here between 1785 and 1787, and used it as a summer seat and a hunting lodge. Beginning in 1794, Bad Bertrich lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of
Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...
at the
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, whereupon it became a Prussian state-owned spa. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded
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of
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. On 1 January 1975, the until then self-administering municipality of Kennfus was amalgamated with Bad Bertrich.


2006 FIFA World Cup

For the
2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...
, Bad Bertrich served as the Swiss national football team’s training camp. The Swiss team stayed at the five-star ''Häcker’s Kurhotel Fürstenhof''. This was made possible by, among others, former mayor Günter Eichberg, former president of
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.


Politics


Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by
proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:


Mayor

Bad Bertrich's mayor is Christian Arnold.


Coat of arms

The municipality's
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might be blazoned thus: ''Per bend sinister, Or a double arch sable over a dais of the same, and gules an eagle rising, head bowed and wings displayed, argent.''


Culture and sightseeing


Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: *
Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...
church, Kurfürstenstraße – quarrystone
aisleless church An aisleless church () is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated from the nave by col ...
from early 20th century; whole complex with graveyard wherein a
cast-iron Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloying elements determine the form in which its car ...
cross from about 1849; warriors’ memorial, lion, 1920s; soldiers’ graveyard, 1950s. *
Saint Peter Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the Jewish Christian#Jerusalem ekklēsia, e ...
’s
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Church (''Kirche St. Peter''), Kirchstraße 27 – Romanesque quarrystone aisleless church;
campanile A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...
1868/1869. * Kirchstraße 10 – Catholic rectory,
Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
quarrystone building, latter half of the 19th century. * Kirchstraße 33 – Villa Sonnenschein (“Sunshine Villa”),
Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
building with hipped roof, 1920s. * Kurfürstenstraße 27 –
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, Late
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building with
mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer wi ...
, about 1900. * At Kurfürstenstraße 34 – spa parlour with pumproom and taproom, complex of plastered buildings with nine-axis, originally open pumproom, two-floor spa parlour with Baroque Revival mansard roof, 1927/1928. * Kurfürstenstraße 34 – former ''Kavaliershaus'' (home for staffers who owned horses), now a spa hotel, three-floor, eleven-axis building with mansard roof, 1788–1789, side oriels built higher in 1928–1929. * At Kurfürstenstraße 34 – former Electoral bathhouse (''Badeschlösschen''), seven-axis
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plastered building, 1786–1787. * Kurfürstenstraße 36 – great bathhouse (now a spa treatment house), three-winged Baroque Revival complex, 1907–1909, expanded 1927. * Kurfürstenstraße 76 – three-floor building with mansard roof, Expressionist influences, 1920s. * Bismarckturm, on the Hohe Lei, southeast of the village –
basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...
quarrystone round tower with stone cupola, 1908. * Clemens-Wenzeslaus-Hütte, Clemens-Wenzeslaus-Höhe, south of the village – Gothic Revival quarrystone building from 1889. * Entersburg, northwest of the village – complex with lookout tower and several terraces with various wall remnants from the Nentirsburg (another
castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
), which was destroyed in 1138. * Hohenzollernturm, northeast of the village – cast-iron tower with pointed top, latter half of the 19th century. *
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tower, on the slope over the Osbach's right bank, quarrystone
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building with mansard roof, early 20th century.


Kennfus

* Saint Mary's
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Church (branch church; ''Filialkirche St. Maria''), Moselblickstraße 4 – Gothic Revival aisleless church, 1904; campanile 1955. * Wayside
chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
, south of the village on the road to Bad Bertrich – small aisleless church, 19th century,
basalt cross Basalt (; ) is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. More than 90% of a ...
from 1675. * Wayside chapel, south of the village on the road to Bad Bertrich – small aisleless church, 19th century, relief inside, 18th century. * Wayside chapel, on ''Landesstraße'' (State Road) 103, north of the village – aisleless church from 1889, two wooden sculptures inside, 19th century.


Events

In June and July 2007, the newly founded festival ''Eifel-Kulturtage'' (“
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Cultural Days”) was held in Bad Bertrich and at
Himmerod Abbey Himmerod Abbey (Kloster Himmerod) was a Cistercian monastery in the community of Großlittgen in the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Manderscheid in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the Eifel, in the valle ...
. Heading the series of events, with more than 90 artists, was Rainer Laupichler.


Economy and infrastructure


Bergquelle

The Bergquelle (“Mountain Spring”) is an extremely stable healing spring with regard to delivery and content consistency. It is a sodium sulphate
bicarbonate In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid. It is a polyatomic anion with the chemical formula . Bicarbonate serves a crucial bioche ...
hotspring.


Notable people


Sons and daughters of the town

* Ottmar Dillenburg (b. 1961),
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priest, Federal
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of the ''Kolpingwerk Deutschland''


Notable people associated with the municipality

* Josef Neunzig (1904-1965), Catholic priest persecuted in the time of the
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Further reading

* Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: “Bad Bertrich, Rheinische Kunststätten”, Heft 184; 1976 (19812).


References


External links


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