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Bad Wiessee
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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Bavaria
- Admin region
- Oberbayern
- District
- Miesbach
- Mayor 2020 26
- Robert Kühn ( SPD )
- Total
- 32.79 km (12.66 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 740 m (2,430 ft)
- Density
- 147/km (381/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 08022
- Vehicle registration
- MB
- Website
- gemeinde.bad-wiessee.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bad Wiessee
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- District of Miesbach
- Population
- 5134
- Area
- 32.77
- Elevation
- 740
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Gmund am Tegernsee
- Official website
- www.bad-wiessee.de
- Image
- Bad Wiessee Luftaufnahme 1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 08022
- Licence plate code
- MB
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- hashtag
- BadWiessee
- Commons category
- Bad Wiessee
- postal code
- 83707
- native label
- Bad Wiessee
- P8168
- 311 BC
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Encyclopedic overview
Iodine sulfur bath in Bad Wiessee 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad Wiessee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.