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Bad Aibling (; ) is a spa town and former district seat in Bavaria on the river Mangfall, located some southeast of Munich. It features a luxury health resort with a peat pulp bath and mineral spa.
In mediaeval times, it was an administrative centre in the lordship of the Counts of Falkenstein. In 1166, it was mentioned in the Codex diplomaticus Falkensteinensis as "Aibilingen". After the obliteration of the Neuburg-Falkenstein dynasty, it became part of the realm of the Wittelsbach family.
In 1845, the first treatments with peat pulp were offered by the physician Desiderius Beck. Bad Aibling received the title "Bad" (spa or springs) in 1895.
In the year 1933, Bad Aibling officially became a town. After the Second World War, Bad Aibling was the site of POW Discharge Center #26, where German POWs were released from captivity to civilian status. In 1946, a DP camp housing former members of the Royal Yugoslav Army was set up on the grounds of the town's airbase. The camp was first operated by UNRRA, and later by the IRO. From 1948 onwards, the area was home to the IRO Children's Village, a DP camp for unaccompanied children and youth belonging to more than 20 nationalities. Over 2,300 inhabitants passed through this facility (the largest of its kind in the US Zone) before it was closed in late 1951. Later, the area evolved into a major centre for intelligence organizations and secret services.
In 2005, the American Bad Aibling ECHELON station (Field Station 81) closed after several decades of operation. After the departure of the NSA, parts of the station have been used by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), with NSA employees moving to the Mangfall barracks. The are still used intensively. The station is used in cooperation with the NSA, which provides the BND with search terms (such as email addresses), which then forwards the results back to the NSA.
The Thermae opened in 2007, complementing the traditional peat pulp baths with mineral water (Desiderius-Quelle). In the same year, the historical Ludwigsbad spa hotel, the nucleus of Bad Aibling's health resort business, burned down due to arson.
On 9 February 2016, a serious railway accident occurred near the town when two passenger trains collided, causing 11 fatalities.
Bad Aibling consists of the neighborhoods () of Abel, Adlfurt, Bad Aibling Mitte, Berbling, Ellmosen, Fachendorf, Gröben, Harthausen, Haslach, Heimathsberg, Heinrichsdorf, Holzhausen, Köckbrunn, Markfeld, Mietraching, Mitterham, Moos, Natternberg, Thalacker, Thürham, Unterheufeld, Weg, Westen, Westerham, Willing, and Zell.
File:Bad aibling glonn.png|Glonn river in downtown
File:Bad aibling kirchzeile.png|Kirchzeile with Hofberg
File:Bad aibling kirchzeile_2.png|Obere Kirchzeile
File:Bad aibling klein_venedig.png|"Klein Venedig" (Little Venice)
File:Bad aibling moorabbau.png|Peat mining in the Schuhbräu-Filze
File:Bad aibling rosenheimer_str.png|Inner Rosenheimer Straße
File:Bad aibling sebastianik.png|St. Sebastian's church
File:Radomes of Bad Aibling Station 1.jpg|ECHELON station
File:Bad aibling station 2.jpg|ECHELON station
File:Bad aibling station 3.jpg|ECHELON station
File:Bad aibling station 4.jpg|ECHELON station
File:Bad Aibling Theresienmonument-1.jpg|Theresienmonument
File:Bad aibling zentralfriedhof.png|Italian style central cemetery
File:Bad Aibling, straatzicht langs het water 2012-08-06 15.05.JPG|Water through the town
File:Bad Aibling, straatzicht2 Bahnhofstrasse-Sedanstrasse 2012-08-06 14.51.jpg|Bahnhofstrasse-Sedanstrasse
File:Bad Aibling, straatzicht3 Bahnhofstrasse 2012-08-06 14.55.jpg|View to a street: die Bahnhofstrasse
File:Klafferer_hofberg.png|View from the Klafferer to Hofberg
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| 2014–2016 | Otto Steffl (CSU) | Kristin Sauter (SPD) | |
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