Bad Wiessee

Description

Bad Wiessee (Germany - High-Bavaria - 4.210 inhabitants at the 12/31/2002).

BW is a commune located in the canton of Miesbach in High-Bavaria. Located at 50 km of Munich, Bad Wiessee, located on Western bank of the lake of Tegernsee, is famous for its thermal tourism. The historical heart of the village preserved its aspect of antant, grace in particular to its typical country cottages of this area of the Bavaria; the village is also located at the edge of a one kilometer long beach on the neighbouring lake. The municipality has in addition to its infrastructures of tourism a casino.

The current burgomaster of the city east Herbert Fischhaber.

The city is twinned with since 1963.

Origin of the name

The etymology of the name is rather easily guessable, owing to the fact that it is about a city created in the Middle Ages: the name thus did not on the occasion really to deteriorate. Bad means in German bath (cf Aix-The-Baths), See means lake (in reference to the alpine lake on which the village developed), and Wies is the Bavarian one for German West , i.e. western . Bad Wiessee is thus the bath in the west of the lake .

History

In 1491, a monk discovered an oil seam gilded near the lake of Tegernsee. The news of this discovery was propagated quickly and of the pilgrims flowed per hundreds to taste with the medical virtues of oil known as of Saint-Quirin . In 1909, the Fleming Adriaan Stoop undertook drillings in the zone and fell on a source from iodized and sulphurized water, with the healing virtues. It is at that time that the thermal tourism took the importance that one knows to him today in the economy of the city. The city was also the place where the very famous Nuit of the Long Knives in June 1934 was held, where SA were stopped by the S and partly on the spot shot. Indeed, SA remained there together for their holidays, which confirms that the village was already a vacation resort snuffed by the influential people.

Geography

Bad Wiessee is located on Western bank of the lake of Tegernsee, on the slopes north of the the Alps Bavaroises. The railway station nearest is Gmund, served by Bayerische Oberlandbahn and of which the line joined Munich via Holzkirchen (High-Bavaria). As the crow flies, the city is located at 5km of Gmund, 15 km of Miesbach, 20 km of Holzkirchen, to 17 km of Bald Tölz and about fifty kilometers of Munich. The city is besides very close to the border with the Austria. There exists a line of ferry which regularly connects two banks of the lake, connecting it to Gmund.

Blazon

The blazon of the city symbolizes:

the mountain , represented by yellow triple mount in the lower part of the blazon;
the alpine lake , represented rather simply by the waves in the central part;
the thermal springs , source of richness for the city which the latter holds with the hollow of its hands.

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