Bad Soden-Salmunster

Bad Soden-Salmunster is a city inside the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated at the river Kinzig, among Fulda and Hanau. It has a population of round thirteen,000. Salmünster as a settlement probably dates to the ninth century, but is first stated in a report from around a thousand, as Salchenmunster. Soden, in all likelihood created by using Fulda Abbey ca. 909, seems in a record from ca. 1190, called Sodin. Around 152, the abbot of Fulda Abbey had Burg Stolzenberg erected. Town rights were bestowed in 1296 and 1320, through King Adolf and Emperor Ludwig, respectively. In 1536, the Huttenschloss turned into built.

In medieval instances, salt works have been an critical source of neighborhood earnings at Soden. Since the 12th century the water of the neighborhood wells, with a excessive salt and iron content material, changed into used for salt manufacturing. The springs and the village have been mortgaged by the abbot of Fulda to the lords of Hutten in 1330, who to start with lived at Stolzenfels earlier than shifting to a new palace in the mid-16th century. When the Hutten circle of relatives came into economic problems, they in turn mortgaged the vicinity to the Archbishop of Mainz. However, the temporal employer of the Archbishopric, the Erzstift, become already going for walks salt works at close by Orb. To avoid inner competition, salt production at Soden become ended in the later sixteenth century.