Bad Radkersburg
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| State: | Styria | |
| District: | Radkersburg (RA) | |
| Area size: | 2.17 km² | |
| Population: | 1,599 as of 2001 (census) | |
| Population density: | 737 inhabitants per km² | |
| Elevation: | 209 m above sea level | |
| Postal code: | 8490 | |
| Area code: | 0 34 76 | |
| geographic coordinates: | 46° 41' 23" N, 15° 59' 19" E | |
| Official municipality number: | 6 15 13 | |
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| Official website: | [www.bad-radkersburg-online.at] | |
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Bad Radkersburg is a spa sporting a thermal spring with a heat of 80 °C. This and the longest sunshine duration in Austria make the town an attractive site of tourism with 100.000 stays per year.
History
It is not known when Radkersburg was first settled or where the first settlement was located. It is also not known when Radkersburg fell under princely territorial rule. Most likely, Radkersburg originally did not belong to the Duke of Styria, but to an aristocrat to whom it had been given by the king. Contemporary research suggests that Radkersburg was not founded by Ottokar II of Bohemia (1232-1278), but by Albert I of Habsburg (1255-1308). The appearance of the city today is apparently based on a precise plan. Radkersburg was surrounded by a wall with towers in the end of the 13th century. It was elevated to an imperial fortress in 1582 by the Reichstag of Augsburg. Oberradkersburg (Gornja Radgona), on the other side of the Mur river, has been a part of Slovenia since 1919. The bridge across the Mur was reopened on October 12, 1969 which led to rapprochement between Austria and Yugoslavia. A thermal spring was made accessible in 1978, soon followed by an extension to the bathing site.Sons and daughters of the city
- Franz Leopold von Nádasdy (1708-1783), military leader
- Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), mathematician
- Wolfgang Fasching (born 1967), extreme sportsman
- Aribert Heim (born 1914), Nazi war criminal
Notable people living in the town
- Dietrich Kittner
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