Bad Wilsnack
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Prignitz
Municipal assoc.	Bad Wilsnack/Weisen
Town subdivisions	8 Stadtteile
Mayor	Dietrich Gappa (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	79. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of the sixteen states of Germany. German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Prignitz (ˈpʁiːgnɪts is a Kreis (district in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. " Amt " is a type of Administrative division of some Northern European countries Bad Wilsnack/Weisen is an Amt ("municipal federation" in the district of Prignitz, in Brandenburg, Germany. Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest Political party in Germany. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 21 km² (30. 6 sq mi)
Elevation	27 m  (89 ft)
Population	2,803  (31/12/2006)
- Density	35 /km² (92 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	PR
Postal code	19336
Area code	038791
Website	www.bad-wilsnack.de
Location of the town of Bad Wilsnack within Prignitz district
Coordinates: 52°57′00″N 11°56′59″E / 52.95, 11.94972

Bad Wilsnack is a town in the Prignitz district, in Brandenburg, Germany. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time German car number plates ( Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered __FORCETOC__ Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen abbreviated to PLZ consist of five digits which indicate the wider area (first two digits and the see also Telephone numbering in Germany for further codes including service numbers cell phones etc A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Prignitz (ˈpʁiːgnɪts is a Kreis (district in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of the sixteen states of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. It is situated approximately halfway between Berlin and Hamburg. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Since 1928 its has been officially recognised as a spa town, before which time its name was simply Wilsnack since then. Bad Wilsnack is pronounced "But Vilsnuck".

The St. Nicoli church in Bad Wilsnack

It has a very important history as a pilgrimage destination after the town and church were burnt down in the 14th century. It was believed that in 1383 some hosts were found to be bleeding on the altar after a raid by Heinrich von Bülow. The Holy Blood of Wilsnack was authenticated when Bishop Dietrich Man of Havelberg went to consecrate the hosts as a precaution, and the central one overflowed with blood, according to later accounts. The Holy Blood Wilsnack were allegedly miraculous hosts which became the site of medieval Pilgrimages to Bad Wilsnack, Germany. Dietrich Man, known as Dietrich II, was Bishop of Havelberg from 1370 to 1385 Havelberg is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The resultant pilgrimages to see the miraculous hosts went on until the Reformation, when its proximity to Wittenberge quickly caused pilgrimages to cease. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time Wittenberge (ˌvɪtənˈbɛɐ̯ɡə is a town of twenty thousand people on the lower Elbe in the district of Prignitz (district capital Perleberg) The story of the bleeding hosts was depicted in a series of woodcuts in the Middle Ages which were used on the emergency money issued by the town in the 1920's (Notgeld).

To this day, the city sports a huge church that is much larger than would be expected for the size of the town.

The pilgrims that came to Wilsnack bought pewter trinkets to indicate that they had reached Wilsnack. These emblems were often in the form of 3 hosts connected together. These turn up in Archaeological digs from around and can also be seen in numerous paintings from medieval times.

External links

• Chronology and genealogy of Wilsnack