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Encyclopedia > Bad Kissingen (district)


Bad Kissingen
Statistics
State: Bavaria
Capital: Bad Kissingen
Adm. Region: Unterfranken
Area: 1139 km²
Inhabitants: 109,200 (2002)
pop. density: 96 inh./km²
Car identification: KG
Homepage: landkreis-badkissingen.de (http://www.landkreis-badkissingen.de)
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Bad Kissingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the district Main_Kinzig and Fulda in Hesse, and the districts of Rhön_Grabfeld, Schweinfurt and Main-Spessart.

Contents
1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

History

The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau and Hammelburg.


Geography

The district is located in the southern portion of the Rhön Mountains. The Frankish Saale River (an affluent of the Main) enters the district in the north and leaves to the southwest.


Coat of arms

Coat of arms The coat of arms displays:
  • top: three icons symbolising the three spas of the district
  • left: the eagle as well as the red and white pattern are from the arms of the county of Henneberg, which ruled the territory in the Middle Ages
  • right: the cross from the arms of Fulda

Towns and municipalities

Towns Municipalities
  1. Bad Brückenau
  2. Bad Kissingen
  3. Hammelburg
  1. Aura
  2. Bad Bocklet
  3. Burkardroth
  4. Elfershausen
  5. Euerdorf
  6. Fuchsstadt
  7. Geroda
  8. Maßbach
  9. Motten
  10. Münnerstadt
  11. Nüdlingen
  1. Oberleichtersbach
  2. Oberthulba
  3. Oerlenbach
  4. Ramsthal
  5. Rannungen
  6. Riedenberg
  7. Schondra
  8. Sulzthal
  9. Thundorf
  10. Wartmannsroth
  11. Wildflecken
  12. Zeitlofs

External links

  • Official website (http://www.landkreis-badkissingen.de) (German)


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  Results from FactBites:
 
Bad Kissingen (district) (128 words)
Bad Kissingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany.
It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the district Main-Kinzig and Fulda in Hesse, and the districts of Rhön-Grabfeld[?], Schweinfurt[?] and Main-Spessart[?].
The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau and Hammelburg.
International Civic Heraldry-Deutsche Kreiswappen-BAD KISSINGEN (349 words)
The chicken on a mountain are the canting arms of the counts of Henneberg, who owned the main part of the district until the 14th century.
The chief shows the symbol for a health resort (Bad), three of the largest Bavarian resorts are in the district.
The cross is the cross of the State of Fulda and is taken from the arms of Bad Brückenau.
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