Bad Wiessee | |
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 Bad Wiessee | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Bad Wiessee within Miesbach district  | |
  Bad Wiessee  Bad Wiessee | |
| Coordinates: 47°43′N 11°43′E / 47.717°N 11.717°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Oberbayern |
| District | Miesbach |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–26) | Robert Kühn[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32.79 km2 (12.66 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 740 m (2,430 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 5,134 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (410/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 83707 |
| Dialling codes | 08022 |
| Vehicle registration | MB |
| Website | gemeinde.bad-wiessee.de |
Bad Wiessee (Central Bavarian: Bad Wiessä) is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922, it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the Tegernsee Lake. It had a population of around 4800 inhabitants in 2014. The word "Bad" means "spa" or "baths", while "Wiessee" derives from "Westsee", meaning "western part of the lake". Bad Wiessee was first documented in 1017 in the tax book of the Tegernsee Abbey, encouraged to pay goods to the abbey.
Bad Wiessee is known for its healing sulfur-fountain, discovered by the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop in 1909 while he was drilling for oil. He built the first iodine sulfur bath in 1912 after oil production had been exhausted. People spend their holidays in Bad Wiessee because of its quiet atmosphere and its location at the north side of the Alps.[3][4]
Tourism is one of the main sources of income for the population of Bad Wiessee. Although spa tourism has declined in the last decades, Bad Wiessee is still very popular for its casino and with wealthy people, many of them buying a second home or condo to spend their holidays or retirement there. The hotels, shops and restaurants cater for the medium-price-category traveller but traditional B&B and reasonable priced accommodations are still available all year round.
- ^ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
- ^ Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011).
- ^ "History of Bad Wiessee". Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
- ^ Kaiser, Hermine (2014). Chronik von Wiessee. Band 1 [Chronik from Wiessee. Volume I] (in German). Bad Wiessee: Hermine Kaiser. p. 161.