Bad Fredeburg is a locality in the municipality
Schmallenberg
Schmallenberg (; ) is a town and a Luftkurort, climatic health resort in the Hochsauerlandkreis, High Sauerland District, Germany. By area, it is the :de:Liste der 100 flächengrößten Städte und Gemeinden Deutschlands, third biggest of all cit ...
in the
High Sauerland District in
North Rhine-Westphalia
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,
Germany
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.
The village has 3989 inhabitants and lies in the east of the municipality of Schmallenberg at a height of around 448 m. Bad Fredeburg borders on the villages of
Altenilpe,
Ebbinghof
Ebbinghof is a locality in the municipality Schmallenberg in the district Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The village has 23 inhabitants and lies in the north of the municipality of Schmallenberg at a height of around 420 m. ...
,
Gleidorf
Gleidorf is a locality in the municipality Schmallenberg in the High Sauerland District in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The village has 1371 inhabitants and lies in the east of the municipality of Schmallenberg at a height of around 393 m. T ...
,
Huxel and Rimberg.
History
In the first decades of the 14th century, the
Dietrich III. of Bilstein built the "Vredeburg", which was to preserve peace in the country according to the name. The construction of the castle also meant the foundation of the town in front of the castle gates. In a devastating town fire in 1810, the entire old town was destroyed and a new building was built in the upper town.
In the 1975 communal area reforms in the
Sauerland
The Sauerland () is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of the States of Germany, German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited.
...
and
Paderborn
Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pade ...
the already existing Town of Schmallenberg was merged with the ''Town of Fredeburg''. Bad Fredeburg has been
Kneippheilbad since 1995.
Gallery
File:Schmallenberg, Denkmal Nr. 61.jpg, Castle ruin Fredeburg
File:Raum Schmallenberg, Auszug aus Blaeu 1645 - Westphalia Ducatus.jpg, „Fredeborg“ 1645 - Westphalia Ducatus (Duchy of Westphalia)
File:Fredeburg 1900.jpg, Fredeburg 1910
External links
Bad-fredeburg.de
References
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Villages in North Rhine-Westphalia
Spa towns in Germany
Schmallenberg