Bad Boll () is a

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in the district of

Göppingen Göppingen (; or ) is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the Goeppingen (district), district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the birthplace ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

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History

In 1321, the

County of Württemberg The County of Württemberg was a historical territory with origins in the realm of the House of Württemberg, the heart of the old Duchy of Swabia. Its capital was Stuttgart. From the 12th century until 1495, it was a county within the Holy Roman ...

purchased title over Bad Boll and came to possess it ''

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'', but it was '' de facto'' still controlled by a local priory. That changed with the conversion of the then

Duchy of Württemberg The Duchy of Württemberg () was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a Imperial Estate, state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495 to 1803. The dukedom's long survival for over three centuries was mainly du ...

Lutheranism Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

and the seizure of church property. Since 1321, Bad Boll has been placed under the jurisdiction of

. The

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around Bad Boll were discovered in 1595. A year later, the first spa in the municipality was constructed by . That spa was rebuilt and expanded from 1823 to 1825. Eckwälden was incorporated into Bad Boll in 1933. The first Evangelical Academy in Germany was established in Bad Boll in 1945. Bad Boll changed its name from Boll to Bad Boll in 2007.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Bad Boll is found towards the western periphery of

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, one of the 16 States of the

Federal Republic of Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 84 ...

. Bad Boll is physically located in the , though a portion of its municipal area lies in the to the southeast. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN) to a low of . A portion of the Federally-protected

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is located in Bad Boll's municipal area.

Politics

Bad Boll has one borough (''Ortsteile''), Boll, and two villages: Bad Boll and Eckwälden. Bad Boll is part of an municipal association with the municipalities of

Aichelberg Aichelberg () is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Göppingen (district), Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Aichelberg is between Stuttgart and Ulm at the ''Albaufstieg'', the slope of the Swabian J ...

, Dürnau,

Gammelshausen Gammelshausen is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History Gammelshausen was purchased by the County of Württemberg in 1321 but then in 1479 passed out of Württemberg's control and into that of the with Dü ...

, Hattenhofen, and

Zell unter Aichelberg Zell unter Aichelberg is a municipality in the district of Göppingen (district), Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geographical location Between Stuttgart and Ulm, on the western edge of the district Göppingen, lies the muni ...

Coat of arms

The municipal

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of Bad Boll displays a

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fountain with white waters and a , in

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, upon a field of

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. The fountain is a reference to the local

and the stag antler to Württemberg. The Federal Ministry of the Interior awarded this coat of arms and a municipal flag to Bad Boll on 25 January 1961.

Transportation

Bad Boll is connected to Germany's network of roadways by its local ''

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n'' and ''

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n'', which join the

Bundesautobahn 8 is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km (309 mi) from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near S ...

. From 1926 to 1989, Bad Boll was also connected to Germany's railroads by the , which was formally closed in 1997 but not dismantled. Local public transportation is provided by the .

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Göppingen (district) Spa towns in Germany