Bad Ditzenbach

The townships of Ditzenbach, Auendorf [de], and Gosbach [de] were, until German mediatization in 1806, possessions of the House of Helfenstein. They were awarded to the Kingdom of Württemberg, a state that had come to control most of the surrounding territory between 1422 and 1455. The town was placed within Württemberg's administrative structure in Oberamt Wiesensteig [de] until 1810, when it was transferred to Oberamt Geislingen [de]. The nearby village of Auendorf had already mostly been a possession of Württemberg before mediatization. Auendorf and Gosbach were assigned to Oberamt Göppingen [de] until transfer in 1808 to Oberamt Wiesensteig. Auendorf moved to Oberamt Göppingen [de] in 1810 and in the same year Gosbach joined Ditzenbach in Oberamt Geislingen. The three townships were placed in the district of Göppingen in 1938. The three townships were merged into a new municipality, Bad Ditzenbach, on 1 January 1975.^[3]

In 1560, a spa was built in the town on its mineral springs. It received the name Bad, "Spa", from the Weimar Republic in 1929.^[3]

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Bad Ditzenbach is situated in the district of Göppingen, of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Bad Ditzenbach lies along Göppingen's district border with the Alb-Danube district to the south. The municipal area is physically located in the Middle Kuppenalb [de]. Elevation above sea level in the municipality ranges from a high of 777 meters (2,549 ft) Normalnull (NN) to a low of 465 meters (1,526 ft) NN along the Fils.^[3]

A portion of the Federally-protected Kaltes Feld mit Hornberg, Galgenberg und Eierberg [de] is located in Bad Ditzenbach's municipal area.^[3]

Bad Ditzenbach has three boroughs (Ortsteile): Auendorf, Bad Ditzenbach, and Gosbach. The municipality is in a municipal association (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) with the neighboring municipality of Deggingen. Two abandoned villages, Hiltenburg and Leimberg, are found in Bad Ditzenbach's municipal area.^[3]

The municipal coat of arms for Bad Ditzenbach displays a golden fountain with silver waters in front of a green, three-pointed hill that almost totally covers the field, also gold. The fountain is taken from the coat of arms of the town of Bad Ditzenbach, and the hill is a reference to the local terrain. The municipal coat of arms was approved by the Göppingen district office on 17 August 1977 and a corresponding flag issued.^[3]

Bad Ditzenbach is connected to Germany's network of roadways by Bundesautobahn 8, specifically its junction at Mühlhausen im Täle. Local public transportation is provided by the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Stauferkreis [de]. From 1903 to 1968, the municipality was connected to Germany's railway to the Tälesbahn railroad.^[3]

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