and the largest building project in the town since World War II. Another point of interest is the casino in the spa park. Other architectural sites in Bad Kissingen include: Bismarck Monument (Bad Kissingen) Bismarck Tower (Bad Kissingen) Ludwig Tower (Bad Kissingen) Wittelsbacher Tower (Bad Kissingen) Sports Bad Kissingen boasts a large number of sports clubs and types of sports: Football 1. FC 06 Bad Kissingen TSV Reiterswiesen TV “Vater Jahn” Bad Kissingen-Winkels Post SV Bad Kissingen TSV gg Kissingen-Hausen SV Bad Kissingen-Garitz SV Bad Kissingen-Arnshausen FC Viktoria Bad Kissingen-Poppenroth Tennis TC Rot Weiss Bad Kissingen TSV Bad Kissingen Golf (Club founded in 1910; golf-course opened in 1911 by Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa) Fencing Basketball Swimming Ice hockey Flying Judo Chess Shooting Shooting club “Edelweiss” Reitersweisen (Bavarian league air pistol 2005/2006) Horse riding World Cup 2006 During the World Cup 2006, Bad Kissingen was home to the Ecuador national team (the Croatia team was in Bad Brückenau). Sports facilities and infrastructure were upgraded for the team. Education Anton-Kliegl-Mittelschule elementary and secondary school State secondary school, Bad Kissingen Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium grammar school, named after Jack Steinberger (a German-American physicist and Nobel Prize Winner) Berufschule Bad Kissingen, vocational school Franz-von-Prümmer-Schule, special school Notable people Jeff Baker (born 1981), MLB infielder on the Miami Marlins Otto von Botenlauben (1177–1245), Count of Henneberg, minnesinger and crusader Claus-Frenz Claussen (born 1939), otolaryngologist Julius Döpfner (1913–1976), cardinal and archbishop of München and Freising Trong Hieu (born 1992), Vietnam Idol winner 2015 Baptist Hoffmann (1863–1937), operatic baritone and voice teacher Cyrill Kistler (1848–1907), composer, music educator and music publisher Henry Kissinger's great great grandfather, Meyer Löb, derived his name from Bad Kissingen in 1817 Anton Kliegl (1872–1927), inventor of the Klieg light Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), physician and writer Hanna Ralph (1888–1978), stage and film actress Philipp Schmitt (1902–1950), SS commandant of Nazi prison camp executed for war crimes Jack Steinberger (1921–2020), physicist and Nobel Prize winner See also Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society Wichtelhöhlen (Bad Kissingen) Footnotes External links The Town That's Building Life Around Sleep Spa towns in Germany Bad Kissingen (district)