Bad Neustadt an der Saale, officially Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale and often simply called Bad Neustadt, is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the Rhön-Grabfeld district in Lower Franconia. It is situated on the rivers Fränkische Saale and

Brend The river Brend is a right-bank tributary of the Fränkische Saale ''(Franconian Saale)'', in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the district Rhön-Grabfeld. Its source is in Oberweißenbrunn, which is part of the town Bischof ...

, near the

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, 30 km north of Schweinfurt, and 47 km southeast of

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Town structure

Between 1972 and 1978 some originally separate villages were gathered together administratively and became part of Bad Neustadt. So today Bad Neustadt has the following ''Stadtteile'' (parts of the town): *Old town of Bad Neustadt (1,858) *Western part of Bad Neustadt (2,515) *Gartenstadt (2,235) *

Brendlorenzen Brendlorenzen is a suburb ('' Stadtteil'') of the town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale in the region of Unterfranken in Bavaria, Germany. The village is stretching along a single main street for more than two kilometers. Its length is due to the g ...

(4,390) * Dürrnhof (291) * Herschfeld (2,716) * Lebenhan (492) * Löhrieth (288) *Mühlbach (972) ''(Number of inhabitants in brackets)''

History

The church ''St. Martin'' in

(part of the town Bad Neustadt) was first mentioned in 742 when the Bishopric of Würzburg was founded. The church was later renamed ''St. Johannes der Täufer'' (Saint John the Baptiste church) as it became a baptism church. In 790 Charlemagne founded the palatinate Salz in the territory of Bad Neustadt. Neustadt was first mentioned as ''nova civitas'' in a document of the bishop of Würzburg in the year 1232. The medieval town wall of Bad Neustadt is shaped as a heart. So it is part of a romantic legend. According to this, the town was founded by Charlemagne as a present for his beloved wife, Fastrada.

Main sights

The castle ''Salzburg'' on a hill near Bad Neustadt was founded in the 12th century. The castle was never destroyed but often renovated so the architecture has elements of Roman art, Gothic art and Renaissance art.

Economics and infrastructure

The Rhön Klinikum AG that is headquartered in Bad Neustadt is a well known enterprise for several specialized hospitals in Germany. The hospitals in Bad Neustadt are especially famous for cardiac and

hand surgery Hand surgery deals with both surgical and non-surgical treatment of conditions and problems that may take place in the hand or upper extremity (commonly from the tip of the hand to the shoulder)Hand surgery is extremely difficult, ranking last o ...

Neustadt in Europe and twin towns

In 1979 Bad Neustadt founded a community of all towns called ''Neustadt'' (new town). Today 34 towns of 5 different countries are members of this project ''Neustadt in Europe''. Bad Neustadt is the only Neustadt with the prefix ''Bad'' ( spa town). Bad Neustadt has the following twin towns: * Falaise, France * Pershore, Great Britain * Cerro Maggiore, Italy * Oberhof, Germany * Oberpullendorf, Austria * Bílovec, Czech Republic *Israel There are annual student exchanges with Falaise Israel and Pershore, as well as with Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills, United States and

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in Wollongong, New South Wales,

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Sport

Soccer is the most popular sport in Bad Neustadt. There are six football clubs (VfL Sportfreunde Bad Neustadt, TSV Brendlorenzen, SV Herschfeld, DJK Mühlbach, DJK Lebenhan, DJK Löhrieth). In spite of this Bad Neustadt is most successful in

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

. Bad Neustadt has played in the third division ''(Regionalliga)'' for several years. One season Bad Neustadt even played in the second division ''(2nd Bundesliga)''. During the

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Germany 2006, was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host the ...

Bad Neustadt was the host town of the national team of Anguilla. According to the FIFA rankings, Anguilla was ranked 196 out of 205 teams in 2006. As a member of the FIFA family the team was invited as a representative for all not-qualified teams.

Sons and daughters of the town

* Margarethe Luther, née Lindemann (1459-1531), mother of Martin Luther * Willi Ankermüller (1901-1986), German jurist and politician * Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (1902-1945), German Resistance fighter in World War II * Thomas Kessler (born 1955), general vicar of the diocese of Würzburg *

Candy DeRouge Wolfgang Detmann, better known as Candy de Rouge (sometimes credited as Alexandre DeRouge), is a German (born in Bad Neustadt an der Saale) producer and songwriter. He has worked extensively with the likes of Jennifer Rush, Celine Dion, Bonnie Bi ...

(alias Wolfgang Detmann) music producer and songwriter * Uwe Müller (born 1960), German author *

Nosie Katzmann Nosie Katzmann (born Jürgen Katzmann in 1959) is a German dance music songwriter and producer. He is known for writing songs for several European electronic dance acts like Culture Beat and Captain Hollywood Project, for whom he contributed vari ...

, (born 1959), German music producer *

Benjamin Schöckel Benjamin Schöckel (born August 16, 1980 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale) is a German former footballer. He spent one season in the Bundesliga with FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German footba ...

(born 1980), German footballer

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References

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