Salinenstrae 117 artificial-stone-framed cube-shaped building with hip roof, Art Deco motifs, 1927/1928, architects Hans Best & Co. Salinenstrae 118 house with winepress house, clinker brick building with pyramidal roof, 1898/1899, architect Himmler, Salinenstrae 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, Salinental includes the Karlshalle and Theodorshalle saltworks east of Salinenstrae (, Schlostrae 1 lordly villa, building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival motifs, about 1862, architect C. Conradi, Schlostrae 2a Art Deco villa with hipped mansard roof, 1928/1929, architect Paul Gans, Schlostrae 4 cube-shaped building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, side building, 1879/1880, architect J. Schaeffer. In football, the town's most successful club is Eintracht Bad Kreuznach. Kurhausstrae 13 lordly four-floor Classicist shophouse, 1840/1841, architect H. T. Kaufmann, Kurhausstrae 17 former inn and bathhouse; three-floor Classicist three-wing complex; middle building 1833, extra floors and expansion early 1860s; in the yard plastered building from time of complex's building; at the end of the garden two-and-a-half-floor, Kurhausstrae 21 four-floor, two-part shophouse with hip roof, Classicist motifs, about 1850; bridge to the bathhouse 1911/1912, Kurhausstrae 28 spa house; schloss-like four-wing complex, 1913, architect. From 30 October until 1 December 1795, the town was held by Imperial troops under Rhinegrave Karl August von Salm-Grumbach, but they were at first driven out in bloody battles by Marshals Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrcke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world with buildings on it.[3]. Spolia found near the Heidenmauer ("Heathen Wall") have led to the conclusion that there were a temple to either Mercury or both Mercury and Maia and a Gallo-Roman provincial theatre. During those years, the U.S. built and repurposed military bases across the West, mostly in the former American Zone in the south. Bad Kreuznach was occupied by US troops in March 1945 and thus stood under American military authority. Until the middle of 2001, the Americans maintained four barracks, a Redstone missile unit,[52] a firing range, a small airfield and a drill ground in Bad Kreuznach. WebOne such notorious field was located at Bad Kreuznach where the German prisoners [30] The Jewish graveyard on Stromberger Strae was bought in 1661 (one preserved gravestone, however, dates from 1630) and expanded in 1919. [4] It is, nonetheless, the district seat, and also the seat of the state chamber of commerce for Rhineland-Palatinate. Bad Kreuznach is also officially a groe kreisangehrige Stadt ("large town belonging to a district"), meaning that it does not have the district-level powers that kreisfreie Stdte ("district-free towns/cities") enjoy. ), Zwingel 30 m-long stretch of wall of the sovereign area (, Zwingel 5 main building of the former Tesch Brewery; three-floor building with pitched roof and clad timber framing, marked 1830 and 1832, from the solid ground floor entrance to three vaulted cellars in the Schlossberg, Graveyard of Honour, Lohrer Wald, in town's western woods (monumental zone) for the fallen of the, Schloss Rheingrafenstein long building with hip roof, marked 1722, side building 19th century, in the gateway arch an armorial stone of the family Salm, Hackenheimer Strae 2 three-sided estate; house, partly, Hackenheimer Strae 6 schoolhouse, representative building with hip roof, 1909, Karl-Sack-Strae 2 Evangelical rectory, Historicized plastered building, late 19th century; characterises street's appearance, Rheinhessenstrae 35 three-sided estate; house, partly timber-frame (plastered), marked 1835, Rheinhessenstrae 54 house, partly timber-frame, Renaissance double window, marked 1587, Rheinhessenstrae 58 Baroque house, partly timber-frame, 18th century, Rheinhessenstrae 65 three-sided estate, essentially possibly from the late 18th century; barn and house, partly timber-frame, stable building, Rheinhessenstrae 68 former village hall, building with half-hip roof, 1732, expansion marked 1937, Rheinhessenstrae 78 house, partly timber-frame, 18th century, Ernst-Ludwig-Strae 1 corner house, brick building, 1891, one-floor commercial building, 1888, Ernst-Ludwig-Strae 4 house, partly timber-frame, 18th century, Ernst-Ludwig-Strae 13 house, partly timber-frame (partly plastered), 18th century, Falkensteinstrae 1 corner house, partly timber-frame (partly plastered), possibly from the late 18th century, former barn, about 1900, Frankfurter Strae 8 one-and-a-half-floor house, yellow-brick building, shortly after 1900, Village core, Kirchwinkelstrae and Dorfbrunnenstrae, Heinrich-Kreuz-Strae, Zentbrckenstrae, Dalbergstrae (monumental zone) closed historical construction of villagelike character up to the 19th century including the late mediaeval Evangelical parish church, the Apfelsbach and the mixed gardens; mostly one-and-a-half-floor dwelling or estate houses, estate complexes of various types and sizes with ring of barns, Biebelsheimer Strae/corner of Winzerkeller , Mainzer Strae 85 Baroque barn with half-hip roof, 18th century, Mainzer Strae 87 house, Baroque building with half-hip roof. The economic structure is thus characterised mainly by small and medium enterprises, but also some big businesses like the tire manufacturer Michelin, the machine builder KHS, the Meffert Farbwerke (dyes, lacquers, plasters, protective coatings) and the Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH may be mentioned. ), no. Bad Kreuznach is characterised to a considerable extent by winegrowing, and with 777ha of vineyard planted 77% white wine varieties and 23% red it is the biggest winegrowing centre in the Nahe wine region and the seventh biggest in Rhineland-Palatinate. [12] In mediaeval and early modern Latin sources, Kreuznach is named not only as Crucenacum, Crucin[i]acum (adjective Crucenacensis, Crucin[i]acensis) and the like, but also as Stauronesus, Stauronesum (adjective Staurone[n]s[i]us; from "cross" and "island"[13]) or Naviculacrucis (from navicula, a kind of small boat used on inland waterways, called a Nachen in German, and crux "cross"). WebThe addresses of our subsidiaries in Dresden, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Los, Angeles, New York and Singapore can be found below. After Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power in 1933, some, among them the trade unionist Hugo Salzmann, organised resistance to National Socialism. About Press Copyright On the grounds of allegations of fornication, he fled the town only a short time afterwards, as witnessed by a letter[39] from Johannes Trithemius to Johannes Virdung, in which Virdung was warned about Faust. The former Rose Barracks in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, was once home [10] On the other hand, the Crucinaha in Emperor Otto III's documents from 1000 (which granted the rights to hold a yearly market and to strike coins)[11] is today thought to refer to Christnach, an outlying centre of Waldbillig, a town nowadays in Luxembourg. Nevertheless, the railway was not built for industry and spa-goers alone, but also as a logistical supply line for a war that was expected to break out with France. WebDer Bad Kreuznach Army Airfield AAF auf einer Karte des US Gustav-Pfarrius-Strae 31/33 pair of semi-detached houses with hip roof, Gustav-Pfarrius-Strae 35/37 pairs of semi-detached houses, Historicized and Art Deco motifs, 1927, architect Richard Starig, Gustav-Pfarrius-Strae 42/44, Steinkaut 1/2 differentiated, individually shaped housing development with hip roofs, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco motifs, 1926, architect Jean Rheinstdter. According to the 1601 Verzeichnis aller Herrlich- und Gerechtigkeiten der Sttt und Drffer der vorderen Grafschaft Sponheim im Ampt Creutznach ("Directory of All Lordships and Justices of the Towns and Villages of the Further County of Sponheim in the Amt of Kreuznach"), compiled by Electoral Palatinate Oberamtmann Johann von Eltz-Blieskastel-Wecklingen,[41] the town had 807 estates and was the seat of a Hofgericht (lordly court) to which the "free villages" of Waldbckelheim, Wllstein, Volxheim, Braunweiler, Mandel and Roxheim, which were thus freed from the toll at Kreuznach, had to send Schffen (roughly "lay jurists"). Wilhelmstrae 48 three-floor shophouse. Along with the building of this castle came the rise of the New Town (Neustadt) on the Nahe's north bank. Given Bad Kreuznach's location in the narrow Nahe valley, all transport corridors run upstream parallel to the river. Furthermore, there is a great number of regional bus routes serving the nearby area, run by VGK and Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH (ORN). It was, however, refounded in 1858. The spa operations and the wellness tourism also hold a special place for the town as the world's oldest radon-brine spa and the Rhineland-Palatinate centre for rheumatic care. In 1183, half of the old Frankish village of Kreuznach at the former Roman castrum the Osterburg burnt down. [67] After the Second World War, too, the club produced many important personalities, among them several players at the national level. WebMemories from Army Days in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1968. With this award, the town also hopes to underscore its image as a sporting town in Rhineland-Palatinate. ), Dessauerstrae 31 former tanner's house; partly, Dessauerstrae 41 Grnderzeit villa; two-and-a-half-floor building with hip roof, Renaissance Revival, about 1870, polygonal, Dessauerstrae 43 Neoclassical villa, cube-shaped building with hip roof, about 1870; built behind it, a brick building, 1883, architect Friedrich Metzger, Dessauerstrae 49 and 51 former Puricelli-. Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Bad Kreuznach Family Housing (1.7 mi.) Moreover, the town is an important crossing point for all modes of transport. Since 1948, they have run it together with the Sisters of the Congregation of Papal Law of the Maids of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and today run it as a hospital bearing the classification II. Spa park (monumental zone) laid out beginning in 1840, Lmmergasse 9/11 shophouse, partly timber-frame, staircase tower, essentially from the 15th or 16th century, no. The last Stadtkommandant (town commander), Lieutenant Colonel Johann Kaup (d.1945), kept Bad Kreuznach from even greater destruction when he offered advancing American troops no resistance, and yielded the town to them on 16 March 1945 with barely any fighting. After the First World War, French troops occupied the Rhineland and along with it, Kreuznach, whose great hotels were thereafter mostly abandoned. [6] About AD250, an enormous (measuring 8171m), luxurious palace, unique to the lands north of the Alps, was built, in the style of a peristyle villa. [47] On 18 October 1689, Kreuznach's churches were burnt down. About 1017, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor enfeoffed his wife Cunigunde's grandnephew, Count Eberhard V of Nellenburg, with the noble estate of Kreuznach and the Villa Schwabenheim belonging thereto. 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