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25-1111: The municipality is located on both sides of the Kinzig river in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse . Its territory extends into the hills of the Vogelsberg to the north and into the Spessart to the south. The two main population centres, Bad Soden and Salmünster, are both situated in the Kinzig valley. The Stadt (town) Bad Soden-Salmünster today consists of the following 11 Stadtteile (boroughs): Ahl  [ de ] , Alsberg  [ de ] , Bad Soden  [ de ] , Hausen  [ de ] , Eckardroth  [ de ] , Katholisch-Willenroth  [ de ] , Kerbersdorf  [ de ] , Mernes  [ de ] , Romsthal  [ de ] , Salmünster  [ de ] and Wahlert  [ de ] . Bad Soden and Salmünster are

50-476: A document from ca. 1190, referred to as Sodin . Around 152, the abbot of Fulda Abbey had Burg Stolzenberg (see below) erected. Town rights were bestowed in 1296 (Soden, but called Stolzenthal ) and 1320 (Salmünster), by King Adolf and Emperor Ludwig , respectively. In 1536, the Huttenschloss (see below) was built. In medieval times, salt works were an important source of local income at Soden. Since

75-582: A few metres towards the northwest where it unites with a longer headstream. From its source, the Kinzig runs northwest and forms the boundary between the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and the Hessian Spessart Nature Park as far as Schlüchtern . West of Schlüchtern the Kinzig flows in a southwesterly direction and separates the Vogelsberg hills to the north from the Spessart to the south. Between Steinau and Ahl

100-529: A part of Bad Soden. Ahl and Eckardroth followed on 1 April 1972. Alsberg and Hausen were merged with Salmünster on 1 January 1970 followed by Kerbersdorf and Romsthal on 1 December 1970 and Katholisch-Willenroth on 1 July 1972. Since 1974, the town has been part of the Main-Kinzig district, it was previously part of the Schlüchtern district. The mayor is Dominik Brasch. The town has direct access to

125-458: A spa. The first Kurhaus (spa building) was erected in 1889, by which time the region had become a part of the Kingdom of Prussia . Soden has been a Heilbad (spa) and therefore called "Bad Soden" since 1928. The current town was created only on 1 July 1974 when the towns of Salmünster and Bad Soden bei Salmünster merged. During earlier Gebietsreformen , as of 1 December 1970 Wahlert had become

150-430: Is currently controversy over plans to build additional towering wind farms on the wooded peaks. A number of these have already been built in the neighbouring town of Wächtersbach very close to the municipal boundary. Environmentalists and many locals reject these plans due to the destruction of forests and animal habitats, possible health risks to residents, as well as threats to local property values and, in particular, to

175-578: Is separated from the rest of the municipal territory by the Gutsbezirk Spessart . It also borders on Forst Aura  [ de ] (another unincorporated wooded area and part of the Main-Spessart district of Bavaria ) and Jossgrund . Salmünster as a settlement likely dates to the 9th century, but is first mentioned in a document from around 1000, as Salchenmunster . Soden, probably created by Fulda Abbey ca. 909, appears in

200-538: Is the Kinzig Dam . In its lower reaches the Kinzig is used by canoeists. Shortly before Hanau the Kinzig flows through the so-called Bulau . This woodland area was formerly used by the US Army as an exercise area and is therefore still very natural. During high water, water flows rapidly through many ditches in the water meadows so that, in spring, extensive bear garlic meadows appear. After about 82 kilometres,

225-674: The Autobahn 66 from Frankfurt to Fulda . It is linked to the rail network by the Bad Soden-Salmünster station (located in the Stadtteil of Salmünster). At Ahl, the Kinzig is dammed by the Kinzigtalsperre  [ de ] , which serves both to control floods and to generate hydroelectric power. Like in other communities in the area, such as Biebergemünd , Flörsbachtal , Bad Orb and Jossgrund , there

250-682: The Congress of Vienna divided his territories between the King of Bavaria , the Elector of Hesse , the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Free City of Frankfurt . The modern Diocese of Mainz was founded in 1802, within the territory of France and in 1814 its jurisdiction was extended over the territory of Hesse-Darmstadt. Since then it has had two cardinals and via various concordats

275-814: The Holy Roman Empire between 780–782 and 1802. In Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae , the substitute for the Pope north of the Alps. Aside from Rome, the See of Mainz is the only other see referred to as a "Holy See", although this usage became rather less common. This archbishopric was a substantial ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. The ecclesiastical principality included lands near Mainz on both

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300-534: The Rhine in Kehl-Auenheim The source of the Kinzig ( Kinzigquelle ) is located at a height of about 400 m above  sea level (NN) , in the vicinity of an Aussiedlerhof , a recently established farmstead outside a village, south of Sterbfritz in the municipality of Sinntal . It is a small spring, enclosed in sandstone , that has an outflow pipe. The headstream that rises here flows for

325-537: The 12th century the water of the local wells, with a high salt and iron content, was used for salt production. The springs and the village were mortgaged by the abbot of Fulda to the lords of Hutten in 1330, who initially lived at Stolzenfels before moving to a new palace in the mid-16th century. When the Hutten family came into financial difficulties, they in turn mortgaged the area to the Archbishop of Mainz . However,

350-748: The Main in Hanau . The Main-Kinzig-Kreis (district) was named after the river. The towns along the Kinzig are Schlüchtern, Steinau an der Straße , Bad Soden-Salmünster , Gelnhausen , and Hanau. The Kinzig is first recorded in 815 A.D. as Chinzicha . This river played a part in the Battle of Hanau in October 1813, as Napoleon retreated back to the Rhine, after his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig . There are several German rivers called Kinzig. Another Kinzig flows into

375-511: The accession of St. Boniface to the see in 747. Boniface was previously an archbishop, but the honor did not immediately devolve upon the see itself until his successor Lullus. In 1802, Mainz lost its archiepiscopal character. In the secularizations that accompanied the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (" German mediatization ") of 1803, the seat of the elector, Karl Theodor von Dalberg , was moved to Regensburg , and

400-502: The archbishopric, and their power struggles occasionally moved the citizens of Mainz to revolt. The lands of the elector lay around the city of Mainz on both banks of the Rhine ; their area reached 3200 sq. miles by the end of the Empire. The last elector was Karl Theodor von Dalberg , who lost his temporal power when the archbishopric was secularized in 1803. The Archbishop of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince in

425-526: The electorate lost its left bank territories to France , its right bank areas along the Main below Frankfurt to Hesse-Darmstadt and the Nassau princes, and Eichsfeld and Erfurt to Prussia . Dalberg retained the Aschaffenburg area however, and when the Holy Roman Empire finally came to an end in 1806, this became the core of Dalberg's new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Dalberg resigned in 1813 and in 1815

450-461: The empire in 1806. The origin of the title dates back to 747, when the city of Mainz was made the seat of an archbishop, and a succession of able and ambitious prelates made the district under their rule a strong and vigorous state. Among these men were important figures in the history of Germany such as Hatto I , Adalbert of Mainz , Siegfried III , Peter of Aspelt and Albert of Brandenburg . There were several violent contests between rivals for

475-846: The left and right banks of the Rhine , as well as territory along the Main above Frankfurt (including the district of Aschaffenburg ), the Eichsfeld region in Lower Saxony and Thuringia, and the territory around Erfurt in Thuringia . The archbishop was also, traditionally, one of the Imperial Prince-Electors , the Arch-chancellor of Germany , and presiding officer of the electoral college technically from 1251 and permanently from 1263 until 1803. The see

500-481: The river empties into the Main in Hanau at a height of about 100 m above  sea level (NN) . Here, there are balcony-like views of the castle of Philippsruhe or the Main river port. The observation platform comprises two interleaved terraces linked by a steel wall. (in downstream order) The Kinzig catchment covers an area of 1,058 square kilometres. Archbishop of Mainz The Elector of Mainz

525-519: The temporal organization of the Archbishopric, the Erzstift , was already running salt works at nearby (Bad) Orb. To avoid internal competition, salt production at Soden was ended in the later 16th century. The salt well ( Barbarossaquelle ) was rediscovered in 1837, and in 1838 Robert Bunsen conducted an analysis of the well's water. In 1872, Soden was granted permission to use the wells for

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550-450: The tourism business as a result of a declining attractiveness of the region to visitors. It is also questioned whether local winds are strong and constant enough to allow economical operation of the wind farms. Kinzig (Main) The Kinzig is a river , 87 kilometres long, in southern Hesse , Germany . It is a right tributary of the Main . Its source is in the Spessart hills at Sterbfritz, near Schlüchtern . The Kinzig flows into

575-469: The two Kernstadtteile (core boroughs). The current municipality was created in the Gebietsreform  [ de ] of 1970, 1972 and 1974. From the north, clockwise, the neighbouring municipalities are: Birstein , Steinau an der Straße , Gutsbezirk Spessart (an unincorporated area surrounding the Stadtteil of Alfeld), Bad Orb , Wächtersbach and Brachttal . The Stadtteil Mernes

600-431: Was established in ancient Roman times , in the city of Mainz , which had been a Roman provincial capital called Moguntiacum, but the office really came to prominence upon its elevation to an archdiocese in 780/82. The first bishops before the 4th century have legendary names, beginning with Crescens . The first verifiable Bishop of Mainz was Martinus in 343. The ecclesiastical and secular importance of Mainz dates from

625-640: Was one of the seven Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire . As both the Archbishop of Mainz and the ruling prince of the Electorate of Mainz , the Elector of Mainz held a powerful position during the Middle Ages . The Archbishop-Elector was president of the electoral college, archchancellor of the empire, and the Primate of Germany as the papal legate north of the Alps, until the dissolution of

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