Bad Sooden-Allendorf

Bad Sooden-Allendorf is a metropolis inside the Werra-Meibner-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The region has existed for the reason that as a minimum the past due eighth century. This is confirmed with the aid of one of the Frankish king Charlemagne’s donation files, which historians have dated to some time among 776 and 779. With this document, Charlemagne transferred the saltsprings, the saltpans, the saltworkers, the marketplace, the tribute and the toll of the settlement of Westera to the Fulda Abbey. The settlement’s name refers to its location on the western border with Thuringia, which nevertheless runs thru right here nowadays.

In April 1637, in the course of the Thirty Years' War, the Geleen and Count Isolani Croatian regiments attacked the metropolis, whereby the metropolis changed into burnt almost proper down. Even the two churches and the metropolis hall had been destroyed. The council property constructed fully out of stone withstood the awesome metropolis hearth, and still stays preserved these days as the metropolis’s oldest constructing. For greater than a thousand years, until the overdue nineteenth century, salt changed into extracted from brine on the saltworks by boiling. The brine was introduced up from a deposit under the metropolis. The breaking of the salt monopoly within the wake of annexation by using Prussia in 1866 caused a fall in charge, which in turn led to the enterprise’s stop. The ultimate salt became produced in 1906.