The municipality of Bad Wurzach (a spa town) lies in a broad lowland between the regions of Allgäu and Upper Swabia.

Covering almost 7 square miles (18 km2) it is the largest contiguous, intact raised bog in Central Europe.

The Council of Europe awarded this nature reserve the European Diploma of Protected Areas.

In 1637, only 19 people remained in the town due to the effects and consequences of the Thirty Years' War and plagues.

The Leprosenhaus (Leper House) located on the aforementioned Leprosenberg acted as a military hospital for 4,003 men.

Despite wartime privations, friendships grew and a formal twinning was eventually made with Saint Helier, capital of Jersey.

Since 1996, the town has undergone extensive restoration and repair, and modern buildings have been added as part of a reconditioning programme.

Gospoldshofen — the village was excluded from the town municipality of Wurzach in 1823 to become part of the administrative district of Leutkirch.

Haidgau — this village, in earlier days also spelled Heidgau, belonged to the shire of Wolfegg.

It was an autonomous community belonging to the administrative district of Bad Waldsee, and starting from 1938 to the county Ravensburg.

It used to be a community of the administrative district of Leutkirch, until it, too, shared the destiny of Arnach, Eintürnen, Gospoldshofen and Hauerz, in that it became a part of the county Wangen in 1938.

Grüne Offene Liste 7.59% (7.59%) — 1 seat (1) Bad Wurzach has formal town twinning links with: The city's coat of arms features a crawdad.

Bad Wurzach lies on the Schwäbische-Bäder-Strasse (Swabian-Spa-Road) and on the Oberschwäbische-Barock-Strasse (Upper Swabian-Baroque-Street), which both pass many places of interest.

Bad Wurzach lies on the Bundesstraße 465, which leads from Kirchheim unter Teck to Leutkirch im Allgäu.

The city is connected through several bus lines with Bad Waldsee, Leutkirch, Isny im Allgäu, Ravensburg and Biberach among others.

The company, which now also functions as German head office, has been founded in 1946 as "Oberland Glas AG".

The Gymnasium Salvatorkolleg is a private secondary school, which takes nine years to graduate from and leads to a university-entrance diploma.

There are also 6 Roman Catholic and five urban Kindergartens to choose from for the parents of the city's youngest citizens.

The urban spa service has been founded in 1948, and allowed the city to become quickly a significant health-resort destination.

The first moor-bath treatments to combat chronic musculoskeletal affections were made available in the nunnery "Maria Rosengarten".

Due to capacity problems and steadily increasing demand the "Kurmittelhaus" (Therapeutic Appliance House) had been opened on "Parkstrasse" (Park Street) in 1948.

In the federal republic of Germany the protected prefix "Bad" can be carried only by cities with a state-approved therapeutic bath house.