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Bad Arolsen
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town in Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Hesse
- Admin region
- Kassel
- District
- Waldeck-Frankenberg
- Mayor 2022 28
- Marko Lambion
- Total
- 126.47 km (48.83 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 286 m (938 ft)
- Density
- 126.9/km (328.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 05691, 05696
- Vehicle registration
- KB, WA
- Website
- Stadt Bad Arolsen
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bad Arolsen ( German: [baːt ˈʔaːʁɔlzn̩] , until 1997 Arolsen, Bad being the German name for Spa) is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then until 1929 as the capital of the Waldeck Free State. The International Tracing Service has its headquarters in Bad Arolsen.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad Arolsen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.