Bad Laasphe: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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Bad Laasphe: Guide
Bad Laasphe is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, belonging to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district.
Geography
Location
The town of Bad Laasphe lies in the upper Lahn Valley, near the stately home of Schloss Wittgenstein (nowadays a boarding school) in the former Wittgenstein district. The municipal area is located south of the main crest of the Rothaargebirge, and borders in the north on the towns of Bad Berleburg and Erndtebrück, in the east on the town of Biedenkopf in Hesse, in the southeast on Breidenbach, in the south on Dietzhölztal and in the west on the town of Netphen. Bad Laasphe lies about 30 km east of Siegen and 25 km northwest of Marburg.
The highest elevation in the municipal area rises to 694 m. It lies southwest of the main town at the outlying centre of Heiligenborn.
Constituent communities
Each one of the following centres is part of the town of Bad Laasphe:
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History
In 1888, the town of Laasphe lay in the knitwear and hosiery factories. In 1885, Laasphe had 2225 mostly Evangelical Church in Germany|Evangelical inhabitants. Schloss Wittgenstein owned two ironworks. (From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon)
Since 1960, Laasphe has been a Sebastian Kneipp|Kneipp spa. On 1 January 1984 the town became a Kneipp curative spa for its mild climate, and since then has been called Bad Laasphe.
Politics
Coat of arms
Bad Laasphe's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In sable a town wall with open gate tower argent flanked by two crenellated towers argent, between which an inescutcheon in argent two pallets sable.
A stamping of the town's seal from the 14th century has been preserved, which shows the same composition as the arms shown here. The inescutcheon (smaller shield within the main one) bears the same arms as the town's former overlords, the Counts of Wittgenstein. When the arms were revised in 1908, the town came up with another composition which looked the same, but the inescutcheon, owing to a misunderstanding, was rather different, being quartered with two opposite quarters showing in gules (red) a castle argent (silver), and in the two other quarters the Wittgenstein pallets. The castle charge was a modern addition and related to the Wittgensteins' overlordship in Homburg. The town archive suggested even then that the inescutcheon bear the old Wittgenstein arms as seen in the town's oldest known seal, but no decision was made about it at that time. Only in 1936 did the town finally decide to revert to the composition shown in the old seal. This was confirmed as the town's arms on 10 March 1937.
Town partnerships
Tamworth, United Kingdom, since 10 October 1980
Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, France, since 28 September 1991
Sons and daughters of the town
Friedrich Kiel, born 8 October 1821 in Puderbach; died 13 September 1885 in Berlin, composer
Fritz Heinrich, born 8 February 1921 in Feudingen; died 7 March 1959, German politician (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|SPD), Member of the Bundestag
Otto Piene, born 1928 painter and artist
Fritz Roth, born 1955, actor (Good Bye Lenin!, Muxmäuschenstill, Sommer vorm Balkon, Komm näher)
Reference
External links
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