Bad Wiessee
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Location of Bad Wiessee within Miesbach district  | ||
| Coordinates: 47°43′N 11°43′E / 47.717°N 11.717°ECoordinates: 47°43′N 11°43′E / 47.717°N 11.717°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Bavaria | |
| Admin. region | Oberbayern | |
| District | Miesbach | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Peter Höß | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 32.79 km2 (12.66 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015-12-31)[1] | ||
| • Total | 4,913 | |
| • Density | 150/km2 (390/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 83707 | |
| Dialling codes | 08022 | |
| Vehicle registration | MB | |
| Website | gemeinde.bad-wiessee.de | |
Bad Wiessee (Central Bavarian: Bod Wiessä) is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922 it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the Tegernsee Lake. It had a population of around 4800 inhabitants in 2014. The word "Bad" means "spa" or "baths", while "Wiessee" derives from "Westsee", meaning "western part of the lake". Bad Wiessee was first documented in 1017 in the tax book of the Tegernsee Abbey, encouraged to pay goods to the abbey.
Bad Wiessee is known for its healing sulfur-fountain, discovered by the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop in 1909 while he was drilling for oil. He built the first iodine sulfur bath in 1912 after oil production had been exhausted. People spend their holidays in Bad Wiessee because of its quiet atmosphere and its location at the north side of the Alps.[2][3]
Tourism is one of the main sources of income for the population of Bad Wiessee. Although spa tourism has declined in the last decades, Bad Wiessee is still very popular for its casino and with wealthy people, many of them buying a second home or condo to spend their holidays or retirement there. The hotels, shops and restaurants cater for the medium-price-category traveller but traditional B&B and reasonable priced accommodations are still available all year round.
Bad Wiessee became notorious as the scene of the key events linked to the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, when Hitler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) purged the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA), many of whom were staying at the resort, in the Hotel Hanselbauer. The key leaders Ernst Röhm, Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald, Karl Ernst, Edmund Heines and Peter von Heydebreck were arrested and taken to Stadelheim Prison where they were later executed.
Bad Wiessee was also the retirement home, in 1939–1945, of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, author of "The Hitler oath".
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Bad Wiessee Town Hall
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Maria Himmelfahrt Church
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Promenade on the lake Tegernsee
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Hotel and inn "zur Post"
References
- ↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). June 2016.
- ↑ History of Bad Wiessee
- ↑ Kaiser, Hermine (2014). Chronik von Wiessee. Band 1 [Chronik from Wiessee. Volume I] (in German). Bad Wiessee: Hermine Kaiser. p. 161.
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