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Bad Ems
Bad Ems Area 15.36 km2 (5.93 sq mi)
Elevation 80 m (262 ft)
Population 9,055 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density 590 /km2 (1,527 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence EMS
plate
Postal code 56130
Area code 02603
Website www.bad-ems.de
Bad Ems
Location of the town of Bad Ems within Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
district
Bad Ems from the Concordia heights
Coordinates 50°20′17″N 7°42′38″E / 50.33806°N 7.71056°E
/ 50.33806; 7.71056Coordinates: 50°20′17″N
7°42′38″E / 50.33806°N 7.71056°E / 50.33806;
7.71056
Administration
Country Germany
Bad Ems from the river Lahn
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
Bad Ems is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It
Municipal Bad Ems
assoc. is the county seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is
Mayor Ottmar Canz (CDU) well known as a bathing resort on the river Lahn. Bad
Ems is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective mu-
Basic statistics nicipality") Bad Ems.
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Geography taken over by what later became the ’Stolberger Zink AG"
(Stolberg Zinc Inc.) and mining continued until the end
The town is built on both sides of the River Lahn, the nat- of the Second World War brought things to a halt in 1945.
ural border between the Taunus and the Westerwald, two After the war, the mine no longer received any subsidies,
parts of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The town and its but until 1959, stockpiled ore and ore from other mines
outer districts are also within the Nassau Nature Reserve. were sorted at the central preparation plant in Silberau.
The town is linked to a view point at the Bismar- Today, the mine is still known as "Mercur", the collective
ckturm (Bismarck Tower) by the Kurwaldbahn funicular name for various individual pits.
railway. Since 1996, the mine has been set up as a museum. In
four different exhibition rooms, the visitors can find in-
History formation on the development and the meaning of ore
mining in the region. The first exhibition room is dedi-
In Roman times, a castle was built at Bad Ems as part of cated to the pre-industrial mining. You can see, among
the Upper Germanic Limes, but today not much of the others, finds from old galleries and tunnels. In the second
structure remains. In the woods around the town, how- room, the industrial period of mining is being presented.
ever, there are distinct traces of the former Roman bor- The third room gives information on the social aspect
der. of mining in Bad Ems. Here, you are being informed on
The town was first mentioned in official documents housing, mining unions, income and also punishments
in 880 and received its town charter in 1324. The Counts for poorly performed work. Finally, the last room shows
of Nassau and the Counts of Katzenelnbogen rebuilt the a collection of minerals and different types of ore.
bath. The high noble Counts loved to use it inviting
friends. Days in the bath were often days with musicians
and all kinds of food even swimming in the pool.[2] In Economy
the 17th and 18th centuries it was considered one of Ger- Industry in Bad Ems is mainly limited to companies relat-
many’s most famous bathing resorts. It reached its hey- ed to its spa status, but nonetheless fairly varied, includ-
day in the 19th century when it welcomed visitors from ing medicine, electrical engineering and tourism.
all over the world and became the summer residence of
various European monarchs and artists, including Kaiser
Wilhelm I of Germany, Tsars Nicholas I and Alexander II
International relations
of Russia, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vasili See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany
Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, etc. Bad Ems is twinned with:
In 1870 the town, then part of Prussian Hesse-Nassau, • Droitwich Spa (United Kingdom)
became famous as the place where the Ems Dispatch orig- • Lubin (Poland)
inated, instigating the Franco-Prussian War. In 1876, in • Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire ( France)
the Haus Vier Türme (Four Tower House), the Ems Edict
• Blankenfelde-Mahlow (Germany)
was signed by Alexander II of Russia, banning the use of
the Ukrainian language. Today, a monument at the spot
commemorates this historical event. People
• Adolf Bach, Germanology. See German article
Mining • Joseph Derenbourg
In the 19th and 20th centuries a lot of mining for metal • Fiona Parker, Olympic Silver Medalist
ores took place in the town, concentrated on lead, silver,
zinc and copper. The Romans had already dug for ores
using open cast mining, which continued throughout the
Notes
Middle Ages. The many indentations on Blöskopf Hill [1] "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in
bear witness to this period of history. As time went by, German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz.
the method changed from open cast mining to under- 2011. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/
ground mining with tunnels and shafts. Mining of this dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf.
kind is first mentioned in a document dated 1158, and it [2] http://www.graf-von-katzenelnbogen.de/ The
continued on into the 18th century, although with long History of the County of Katzenelnbogen and the
interruptions. First Riesling of the World
The advent of the Industrial Revolution lead to the
expansion of the mine, which from 1871 operated under
the name of "Emser Blei- und Silberwerk AG" (Bad Ems
Lead and Silver Works, Inc.). In 1909 the company was
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References Much of the content of this article comes from the
equivalent German-language Wikipedia article
• Stella Ghervas, « Spas’ political virtues : Capodistria (retrieved September 5, 2005).
at Ems (1826) », Analecta Histórico Médica, IV, 2006
(with A. Franceschetti).
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Categories:
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• Spa towns in Germany
• Mining communities in Germany
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