Bad Saulgau is located north of the wooded mountain range Wagenhart and a few kilometers west-northwest of Atzenberger Höhe. It is located between the Danube and Lake Constance on the Danube tributary Schwarzach. The district Lampertsweiler extending European watershed, the catchment area of the Rhine separates and Danube. The water southward flowing water flows eventually into the Rhine, that northbound in the Danube . The town lies on the Swabian Spa Route, the Mill Street Upper Swabia and the Upper Swabian Baroque Route.
Neighboring communities
Bad Saulgau borders following called clockwise municipalities, starting from the north: Ertingen, Riedlingen in agreed management community with the city of Riedlingen Allmannsweiler, Bad Buchau, Dürnau in Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Bad Buchau Bad Schussenried Ebersbach-Musbach, Boms, Eichstegen, Hoßkirch in Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Altshausen Ostrach, Hohentengen Herbertingen in agreed management community with the city of Bad Saulgau.
Spatial Planning
Bad Saulgau forms a secondary center of Upper Swabia region. The central region, with around 45,000 people comprising the southeastern municipalities of the district Sigmaringen and the northwestern of the county Ravensburg, in particular, the towns and cities Altshausen, Bad Saulgau, Boms, Ebenweiler, Ebersbach-Musbach, Eichstegen, Fleischwangen, Guggenhausen, Herbertingen, Hoßkirch, Königseggwald, Ostrach, Riedhausen and Unterwaldhausen.
Constituent
Bad Saulgau consists of the main town and 13B locations beer Stetten Bolstern Bondorf, Braunweiler Friedberg, Fulgenstadt, Großtissen Haid, Hochberg Lampertsweiler, Moosheim, Renhardsweiler and Wolfartsweiler. coat of arms district population area Bad Saulgau Bad Saulgau 11,673 5690 ha beer Stetten beer Stetten 591 615 ha Bolstern Bolstern 417 1206 ha Bondorf Bondorf 333 278 ha Braunweiler Braunweiler 553 1005 ha Friedberg Friedberg 406 541 ha Fulgenstadt Fulgenstadt 672 673 ha Großtissen Großtissen 374 669 ha Haid Haid 874 1320 ha Hochberg Hochberg 579 664 ha Lampertsweiler Lampertsweiler 302 252 ha No Coat Available Moosheim 337 443 ha Renhardsweiler Renhardsweiler 273 170 ha No Coat Available Wolfartsweiler 275 351 ha
History
The first mention of Sulaga dates back to 819. In the local dialect is the place until today Sulga. The name comes from the Old High German back word sul, the "swampy place puddle" means. The importance lies today in the name Wallowing for puddles, in which, for example boars wallow. The town's name therefore refers to its location in the lowland of Schwarzachtals - has nothing to do with columns or even a Celtic source Goddess, how often wrongly asserted. Saulgau in 1239 by Emperor Frederick II. The town charter granted by King Rudolf I. 1288 the market right. 1299 fell Saulgau to the House of Habsburg and was front Austrian Official town in the Austrian Danube lands. In the witch persecutions 46 are in town Saulgau witch trials were carried out from 1518 to 1684, including 29 killings and two banishments. From other method is the starting unknown. The youngest victim Maria Eichel was at her execution on March 16, 1674 only 15 years old. Particularly well known were the two witch trials against Anna Persauter 1666 and 1672, which ended with torture and decapitation. As part of the realignment of Europe by Napoleon Bonaparte came Saulgau 1805 with the Peace of Pressburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg. On June 27, 1935, rocked earthquake the city. 6250 buildings were severely damaged in part. The damage amounted to 0.75 million Reichsmark. In World War II the conversed Zeppelin GmbH between 14 August 1943 and 22April 1945 the cycle southeastern outskirts close to Saulgau station next to the production site of the Josef Bautz AG a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp. In sub-camp Saulgau items ballistic liquid rocket were aggregate 4. Up to 400 concentration camp prisoners were forced to do in the camp of forced labor, where 43 were killed. on the municipal cemetery is at the memorial reminds of soldiers with two plaques to 35 victims of the two world wars. also on the former location of the satellite camp recalls a 2005 inaugurated monument to the camp and the victims. In the square of the barracks itself today is a supermarket. Saulgau, the first Württemberg Oberamt city in Oberamt Saulgau and then county town was, came in the wake of the district reform in 1973 Sigmaringen County, whose largest city it is today. On January 1, 1975, the previously independent municipalities beer Stetten, Bolstern, Bondorf, Braunweiler, Friedberg, Fulgenstadt, Großtissen, Haid, Hochberg, Lampertsweiler, Moosheim, Renhardsweiler and Wolfartsweiler were incorporated to Saulgau.
Religion
Education
, a Japanese international boarding school serving secondary school, was previously in Bad Saulgau. The school was scheduled to close in 2012.
