KISSINGEN

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KISSINGEN , a town and watering-place of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, delightfully situated in a broad valley surrounded by high and well-wooded hills, on the Franconian Saale, 656 ft. above sea-level, 62 m. E. of Frankfort-on-Main, and 43 N.E. of Wurzburg by rail. Pop. (Igoo), 4757 Its streets are regular and its houses attractive. It has an Evangelical, an English, a Russian and three Roman Catholic churches, a theatre, and various benevolent institutions, besides all the usual buildings for the lodging, cure and amusement of the numerous visitors who are attracted to this, the most popular watering-place in Bavaria. In the Kurgarten, a tree-shaded expanse between the Kurhaus and the handsome colonnaded Konversations-Saal, are the three

principal

PRINCIPAL

springs, the Rakbczy, the Pandur and the Maxbrunnen, of which the first two, strongly impregnated with iron and salt, have a temperature of 51.26 F.; the last (50.72) is like Selters or Seltzer water. At short distances from the town are the intermittent artesian

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Solensprudel, the Schonbornsprudel and the Theresienquelle; and in the same valley as Kissingen are the

minor

spas of Bocklet and Briickenau. The waters of Kissingen are prescribed for both internal and external use in a

great

GREAT

variety of diseases. They are all highly charged with salt, and productive government salt-works were at one time stationed near Kissingen. The number of persons who visit the place amounts to about 20,000 a year. The manufactures of the town, chiefly carriages and furniture, are unimportant; there is also a

trade

in fruit and wine.
The salt springs were known in the 9th century, and their medicinal properties were recognized in the 16th, but it was only during the 19th century that Kissingen became a popular resort. The town belonged to the

counts

COUNTS

of Henneberg until 1394, when it was sold to the

bishop

of Wurzburg. With this bishopric it passed later to Bavaria. On the loth of July 1866 the Prussians defeated the Bavarians with

great

GREAT

slaughter near Kissingen. On the 13th of July 1874 the town was the scene of the attempt of the fanatic Kullmann to assassinate Prince Bismarck, to whom a statue has been erected. There are also monuments to Kings Louis I. and

Maximilian

MAXIMILIAN
MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

I. of Bavaria.
See Balling, Die Heilquellen unddBader zu Kissingen ( Kissingen, 1886) ; A. Sotier, Bad Kissingen (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1883) ; Werner, Bad Kissingen als Kurort (Berlin, 1904) ; Leusser, Kissingen_ fur Herzkranke (Wurzburg, 1902); Diruf, Kissingen and seine Heil ellen (Wurzburg, 1892); and Roth, Bad Kissingen (Wurzburg, 1901)

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