Easy hikes and walks around Bad Rothenfelde

The beautiful neo-baroque spa house is one of the particularly impressive historical spa buildings in Bad Rothenfelde.

The New Gradierwerk in Bad Rothenfelde already looks huge. A walk around it is almost 1 km long. The salty air feels good.

The Teutoburg Forest is a great landscape, even from a distance

Between the laying of the foundation stone in 1868 and its final sale to an investor group in 1997, 25 years tell of changes. It is arguably the building in Bad Rothenfelde with the most varied history. Dining and concert halls (the famous Red Hall), dance floors, wine cellars, terraces, a bar, hotel rooms, staff quarters, kitchens, and cellars—all of this was housed within its walls, and much was subsequently destroyed by fire. Just as the owners changed hands frequently, so too did the names. Built as the "Höckersches Badehotel," it was known as the Kurhaus (spa hotel) from 1881 to 1952, then the Kurklinik Nollmann (Nollmann spa clinic), and subsequently the Kurhaussanatorium with a hotel in the spa park. From 1969 onward, the operation of the hall and hotel was managed directly by the spa administration. Later, after further renovations and fires, and as long as it remained under the spa administration's ownership, the guest complex was called the Residenzhotel (Residence Hotel). The hotel's history finally came to a close in 1985 when the guest rooms were converted into condominiums. The adjacent halls and bars have been managed and leased by an investor group since 1997. The hotel in the spa park and the small concert hall were demolished. The residents of Rothenfelde are quite used to that sort of thing. The senior citizens' residence in the spa park now stands on this site, and its residents have the privilege (or rather, must accept) of having a box seat at all the festivals in the concert garden. But the townspeople still gather in the Kurhaus every year for the Bad Rothenfelde meal, and every Sunday, lively couples dance, replenishing their calorie expenditure with cream cakes. Source: https://www.historische-schaufenster.de/index.php/Schaufenster/ehemaliges-kurhaus.html

The Weidtmanshof was built in 1917/18 as a health resort for the Bochum General Miners' Association. Mining workers could breathe healthy forest air and saline air at the graduation towers here, on the edge of the "Little Mountain." The 50-bed sanatorium was named after Dr. Viktor Weidtman, chairman of the Reich Miners' Association. Weidtman was particularly concerned with the well-being of the miners and pursued the goal of merging all Prussian miners' associations into a reinsurance association. Thus, the "Weidtmanshof" was built in 1917-1918 on Parkstrasse as a sanatorium and health resort for the Bochum General Miners' Association. Mining workers could recover here from their work. On December 17th... In 1926, Viktor Weidtman died suddenly of a heart attack in Berlin, leaving behind his wife Adele Weidtman (née Grach), after whom the Adelenblick viewpoint in Bad Rothenfelde is named, several children, and grandchildren. In 1999, heristo AG acquired the "Weidtmanshof" estate for its business and administrative headquarters. Source: https://www.historische-schaufenster.de/index.php/Schaufenster/weidtmanns-hof.html

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Another one of the impressive buildings.

Impressive building.