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Bad Hersfeld
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Bad Hersfeld is a spa town and the administrative center of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It serves as a regional hub for the area and offers therapeutic spa facilities that attract visitors seeking health and wellness treatments.
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Described at
Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) : LAGIS Hessen : LAGIS Hessen
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bad Hersfeld
- Country
- Germany
- Population
- 30770
- Area
- 73.87
- Elevation
- 212
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.bad-hersfeld.de
- Image
- Hersfeld altstadt tageberg.jpg
- Dialing code
- 06621
- Licence plate code
- HEF
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- twinned administrative body
- Šumperk
- Commons category
- Bad Hersfeld
- topic's main category
- Category:Bad Hersfeld
- Commons gallery
- Bad Hersfeld
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bad Hersfeld
- postal code
- 36251
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Andlau
- hashtag
- BadHersfeld
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Encyclopedic overview
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld ( German pronunciation: [baːt ˈhɛʁsfɛlt] ; Bad is "spa" in German; the Old High German name of the city was Herolfisfeld) is the district seat of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel.
Bad Hersfeld is known countrywide above all for the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele (festival), which have taken place each year since 1951 at the monastery ruins. These themselves are said to be Europe's biggest Romanesque church ruin.
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