Bad Neustadt an der Saale, officially Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale and often simply called Bad Neustadt, is a town in northern

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, Germany. It is the capital of the Rhön-Grabfeld district in Lower Franconia. It is situated on the rivers Fränkische Saale and Brend, near the Rhön Mountains, 30 km north of

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, and 47 km southeast of Fulda.

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 Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Em ...

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

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 Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occ ...

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 The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon di ...

and hand surgery.

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 A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits. Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath, Somerset, B ...

). Bad Neustadt has the following twin towns: * Falaise, France * Pershore,

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* Cerro Maggiore, Italy * Oberhof, Germany * Oberpullendorf, Austria * Bílovec,

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. Th ...

*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 Smith's Hill High School in Wollongong,

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, Australia.

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. 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 th ...

Bad Neustadt was the host town of the national team of

Anguilla Anguilla ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territ ...

. 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 Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation and the namesake of 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 (born 1980), German footballer

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References

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