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Bad Laasphe
Bad Laasphe Admin. Arnsberg
region
District Siegen-Wittgenstein
Town 24
subdivisions
Mayor Robert Gravemeier
Basic statistics
Area 135.76 km2 (52.42 sq mi)
Elevation 300 - 694 m
Population 14,344 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density 106 /km2 (274 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence SI
plate
Postal code 57334
Area codes 02752, 02753, 02754, 02774
Website www.bad-laasphe.de
Bad Laasphe (German pronunciation: [ˈbaːt ˈlaːsfə]) is a town
in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Siegen-
Wittgenstein district.
Geography
Bad Laasphe
Location of the town of Bad Laasphe within Siegen- Location
Wittgenstein district
The town of Bad Laasphe lies in the upper Lahn Valley,
near the stately home of Wittgenstein Castle (de) (nowa-
days a boarding school) in the former Wittgenstein dis-
trict. 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 Hessen, 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.
Coordinates 50°55′49″N 8°25′0″E / 50.93028°N 8.416667°E /
50.93028; 8.416667Coordinates: 50°55′49″N Constituent communities
8°25′0″E / 50.93028°N 8.416667°E / 50.93028; Each one of the following centres is part of the town of
8.416667
Bad Laasphe:
Administration
Country Germany History
State North Rhine-Westphalia
In 1888, the town of Laasphe lay in the Prussian admin-
istrative region of Arnsberg in Wittgenstein district and
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bad Laasphe
• Amtshausen • Heiligenborn • Puderbach
• Bad Laasphe (main town) • Herbertshausen • Rückershausen
• Banfe • Hesselbach • Rüppershausen
• Bermershausen • Holzhausen • Saßmannshausen
• Bernshausen • Kunst Wittgenstein • Sohl, Bad Laasphe
• Feudingen • Laaspherhütte • Steinbach
• Fischelbach • Niederlaasphe • Volkholz
• Großenbach • Oberndorf • Weide
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 con-
firmed as the town’s arms on 10 March 1937.
Twin towns
• Tamworth, United Kingdom, since 10 October
1980
• Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, France, since 28
September 1991
Constituent communities
Notable people
was connected to the Kreuzthal-Marburg line of the • Friedrich Kiel, born 8 October 1821 in Puderbach;
Prussian State Railway (Preußische Staatsbahn). In 1888 died 13 September 1885 in Berlin, composer
Laasphe had a junior teachers’ college, a local court and • Fritz Heinrich, born 8 February 1921 in Feudingen;
knitwear and hosiery factories. In 1885, Laasphe had 2225 died 7 March 1959, German politician (SPD), Member
mostly Evangelical inhabitants. Schloss Wittgenstein of the Bundestag
owned two ironworks. (From Meyers Konversations- • Otto Piene, born 1928 painter and artist
Lexikon) • Fritz Roth, born 1955, actor
Since 1960, Laasphe has been a Kneipp spa. On 1 Jan-
uary 1984 the town became a Kneipp curative spa for its References
mild climate, and since then has been called Bad Laasphe.
[1] "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German).
Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31
Coat of arms December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/
Bad Laasphe’s civic coat of arms might heraldically be de- daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html.
scribed thus: In sable a town wall with open gate tower This article incorporates information from the German
argent flanked by two crenellated towers argent, be- Wikipedia.
tween which an inescutcheon in argent two pallets sable.
A stamping of the town’s seal from the 14th century External links
has been preserved, which shows the same composition
as the arms shown here. The inescutcheon (smaller • Official site (German)
shield within the main one) bears the same arms as the • Bad Laasphe in the Kulturatlas Westfalen (with 360°
town’s former overlords, the Counts of Wittgenstein. panoramas)
When the arms were revised in 1908, the town came • Old and new town arms at International Civic
up with another composition which looked the same, Heraldry
but the inescutcheon, owing to a misunderstanding, was
rather different, being quartered with two opposite quar-
ters showing in gules (red) a castle argent (silver), and
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