Friedrich Schiller, one of the greatest poets our country has produced, died over 200 years ago - on 9 May 1805. Many towns and communities associated with Schiller and his work - Marbach and Mannheim are certainly the most important examples - commemorated this date with numerous events.
Friedrich Schiller neither lived nor worked in Bad Überkingen. Nevertheless, the municipality honours the poet with the small Schiller Temple on a hill north-east of Bad Überkingen. 100 years after Schiller's death, the then owner of the Überkingen fountain and spa business, Privy Councillor of Commerce Carl Haegele, had the small building, which had previously been erected in Stuttgart in Schiller's memory, dismantled by carpenters from Überkingen, brought here and erected on its current site.