Bad Wildungen

Bad Wildungen, officially the City of Bad Wildungen, is a state-run spa and a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany. It is placed on the German Timber-Frame Road. Bad Wildungen's first documentary point out took place 800 from the Hersfeld Monastery's items listing beneath the name "villa Wildungun". This vicinity lay within the Wilde Valley, east of modern most important town. About 1200, a citadel changed into constructed by means of the Thuringian Landgraves, round which Alt-Wildungen evolved.

In 1242, Nieder-Wildungen, which had been founded on the hill dealing with the fortress, was granted metropolis rights. From 1263, the castle and the two Wildungen cities had been owned by means of the Counts later Princes of Waldeck, who handiest abdicated after the First World War. In 1358, the two Wildungen towns have been cited. In 1906, the town of Nieder-Wildungen turned into given the new name Bad Wildungen. In 1940, Bad Wildungen was given the identify of "Preußisches Staatsbad".