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Site & Environment

Located on the outskirts of the Allgäu, you enjoy a magnificent view of the panorama of the Alps. The capital of Bavaria Munich with its numerous attractions and places of interest is located approximately 60 km in the east of our place and can be reached by car in less than 45 minutes. In the east and in the west are the magnificent fields and forrests of the alpine upland. You reach the famous winter sport region Garmisch-Partenkirchen in south direction in less than one hour as well as the city Füssen in the south with the famous Neuschwanstein castle. Spend the night with us in the Hotel Bad Wörishofen, Hotel Emilie and enjoy the Allgäu.
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History Bad Wörishofen
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The city Bad Wörishofen consists of the districts Bad Wörishofen, Dorschhausen, Frankenhofen, Hartenthal, Kirchdorf, Oberes Hart, Stockheim, Unteres Hart, Untergammenried, Obergammenried, Schlingen, und Schöneschach. The calm life in Bad Wörishofen changed in the end of the 19th century. Already before Kneipp became the priest of the church St. Justina in the year 1881, spa guests stayed at Bad Wörishofen. In the year 1886 Kneipp´s book "My Water-Cure" was edited and an increasing number ofspa guests arised. Since the year 1889 existed a regular cure-business under the guidance of the priest Sebastian Kneipp. He came as a confesser for the abbey of the Dominikanerinnen on the 2nd of May 1855. Kneipp´s therapy with water could palliate a lot of viele diseases and brought rich and health-conscious people into the village who were looking for healing. 1886 Wörishofen consited of 183 houses with a little more than 1000 inhabitants. Between 1891 and 1896 more than 120 new buildings were built, almost only hotels and pensions. In the year 1892 a new water pipe was built, 1895 the graveyard was set up. In the year 1896 the train railway track Türkheim–Bad Wörishofen was established. At the place where the museum Artis had burned down in the year 1905 a gambling casino was established wich opened in the year 1906. Already shortly before World War I more than 10.000 spa guests per year visited Wörishofen. During World War I the cure business was reduced - hotels and health clinics - were used as military hospitals. From the year 1918 the number of guests increased until the outbreak of Worl War II. Many new hotels were built. On the 6th of März 1920 Wörishofen received the titel „Bad“ (spa town). During World War II the spa town was used as a military hospital town, 1945 Bad Wörishofen belonged to the American occupation zone and bekame a refugee city.
The grant privileges of a town to the "Stadt Bad Wörishofen" was in the year 1949. As the hotels and pensions were no longer occupied, the cure business in the city rebounded and brought to Bad Wörishofen a building boom again. The number of guests and overnight stays increased year by year up to 1,44 million overnight stays in the year 1975. The cost cuts in the public health sector beginning in the year 1990 effected also the city Bad Wörishofen. The annual overnight stays of up to 1.6 million dropped in the year 2003 to 800,000. Hotels, cure hotels and pensions had to close. The townspeople saw the construction projects of the thermal bath and the Skyline Park critical. An adulteration of the Kneipp doctrine appreciated by the natives was suspected. In the meantime the thermal bath which was opened in may 2004 and the Skyline Park became attractions of Bad Wörishofen.