Bad Boll

Bad Boll

Coat of arms
Bad Boll

Coordinates: 48°38′22″N 9°36′56″E / 48.63944°N 9.61556°E / 48.63944; 9.61556Coordinates: 48°38′22″N 9°36′56″E / 48.63944°N 9.61556°E / 48.63944; 9.61556
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Stuttgart
District Göppingen
Government
 • Mayor Hans-Rudi Bührle
Area
 • Total 10.95 km2 (4.23 sq mi)
Elevation 427 m (1,401 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
 • Total 5,110
 • Density 470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 73085–73087
Dialling codes 07164
Vehicle registration GP
Website www.bad-boll.de

Bad Boll is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

History

Since the Middle Ages there has been a thermal spa there, at one time a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Württemberg. In the 19th Century, the spa was acquired by Pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt who used it as a centre for his ministry of healing and evangelism. His son Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt took over the spa and ministry until his own his death in 1919. In 1921, the Blumhardt family passed the spa complex on to the Herrnhuter Brüder-Unität or Moravian Church. Following World War II, Bad Boll became the western European headquarters of that church body and continued as such until the re-unification of Germany in 1989. In 1945, the first Evangelical Academy was established in Bad Boll. The Diakonie of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg assumed control of the spa in 2005 although the Moravian Congregation still continues to worship in its chapel.

Demographics


Number of inhabitants from 1837 till 2010.

Datum Einwohner
1837 1.461
1907 1.364
17. may 1939 1.529
13. september 1950 2.426
27. may 1970 3.692
31. december 1983 4.286
31. december 1990 4.803
31. december 2000 5.149
31. december 2005 5.270
31. december 2010 5.205

Notable people from Bad Boll

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
Boll, watercolor painting of General Eduard von Kallee, 16 June 1876


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