Bad Kreuznach

Bad Kreuznach
Coat of arms
Bad Kreuznach
Location of Bad Kreuznach within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°51′N 7°52′E / 49.850°N 7.867°E / 49.850; 7.867Coordinates: 49°51′N 7°52′E / 49.850°N 7.867°E / 49.850; 7.867
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Government
• Mayor	Heike Kaster-Meurer (SPD)
Area
• Total	55.63 km2 (21.48 sq mi)
Elevation	104 m (341 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	49,406
• Density	890/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55517-55545
Dialling codes	0671, 06727
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.stadt-bad-kreuznach.de

County of Sponheim-Kreuznach
Grafschaft Sponheim-Kreuznach
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1227–1414
Capital		Kreuznach
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Gottfried III builds Kauzenburg	1206–30
•	Partitioned from Sponheim	1227
•	Comital line extinct; partitioned in three	1414
Preceded by Succeeded by County of Sponheim County of Veldenz [[Margraviate of Baden]] Palatinate-Simmern

Bad Kreuznach (German pronunciation: [baːt ˈkʁɔʏtsnax]) is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It does not lie within any Verbandsgemeinde, even though it is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Bad Kreuznach is a spa town and the seat of several courts as well as federal and state authorities. Bad Kreuznach is also officially a große kreisangehörige Stadt ("large town belonging to a district"), meaning that it does not have the district-level powers that kreisfreie Städte ("district-free towns/cities") enjoy. It is, nonetheless, the district seat, and also the seat of the state chamber of commerce for Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classed as a middle centre with some functions of an upper centre, making it the administrative, cultural and economic hub of a region with more than 150,000 inhabitants. Moreover, the town and the surrounding areas are renowned both nationally and internationally for their wines, especially from the Riesling, Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grape varieties.

Bad Kreuznach lies between the Hunsrück, Rhenish Hesse and the North Palatine Uplands some 14 km (as the crow flies) southsouthwest of Bingen am Rhein. It lies at the mouth of the Ellerbach where it empties into the lower Nahe.

Clockwise from the north, Bad Kreuznach's neighbours are the municipalities of Bretzenheim, Langenlonsheim, Gensingen, Welgesheim, Zotzenheim, Sprendlingen, Badenheim (these last five lying in the neighbouring Mainz-Bingen district), Biebelsheim, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Volxheim, Hackenheim, Frei-Laubersheim and Altenbamberg, the town of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, and the municipalities of Traisen, Hüffelsheim, Rüdesheim an der Nahe, Roxheim, Hargesheim and Guldental.