Bad Schönborn

Bad Schönborn
Bad Schönborn
Coordinates	49°12′N 8°39′E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Karlsruhe
District	Karlsruhe
Mayor	Rolf Müller
Basic statistics
Area	24.09 km2 (9.30 sq mi)
Elevation	122 m  (400 ft)
Population	12,530 (31 December 2010)
- Density	520 /km2 (1,347 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	KA
Postal code	76669
Area code	07253
Website	www.bad-schoenborn.de

Bad Schönborn is a municipality in northern Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

Bad Schönborn is famous for being a health resort with mineral springs, and this spa offers the largest roofed swimming area in Germany to people with all kinds of diseases, e.g. rheumatism.

Damian Hugo von Schönborn

In 1971, two previous towns Bad Langenbrücken and Bad Mingolsheim were combined, and the town was named Bad Schönborn after Damian Hugo von Schönborn, archbishop of Speyer (1719–1743), built Kislau castle in Bad Mingolsheim.

Archbishop Franz Christoph von Hutten founded the sulphur spa in Bad Langenbrücken in 1766.

A famous citizen is the minister of the interior of Baden-Württemberg parliament Heribert Rech, and the singer Joana Emetz.

The Battle of Mingolsheim took place near Mingolsheim during the Thirty Years' War on April 27, 1622.

People of Bad Schönborn

• Peter Luder (1415–1472) a professor of Latin at the University of Heidelberg
• Franz Mone (* 12. May 1796 in Mingolsheim) a historian and archeologist
• Al (Albert) Sieber (* 27. February 1843 in Mingolsheim) Chief of Scouts during the Apache Wars
• William Stang (* 21. April 1854 in Langenbrücken) Bishop of Fall River in Massachusetts], the Bishop Stang High School is named in memory of William Stang.

External links

• Genealogy of the Schoenborn's: The descendants of Franz Philipp Joseph (1768-1841) bear the title Graf/Gräfin von Schönborn-Buchheim.
• Bertha Benz Memorial Route