Bad Nauheim
Bad Nauheim (bät nou'hīm), town (1994 pop. 29,405), Hesse, central Germany, in the Taunus Mts. It is a world-famous resort, noted for its salt springs, which are used to treat heart and nerve diseases.
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This article is about the spa town in the Wetteraukreis. For the community in Groß-Gerau district, see Nauheim.
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Location of the town of Bad Nauheim within Wetteraukreis district
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| Coordinates | 50°22′N 8°45′E / 50.36667°N 8.75°ECoordinates: 50°22′N 8°45′E / 50.36667°N 8.75°E |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Hesse |
| Admin. region | Darmstadt |
| District | Wetteraukreis |
| Town subdivisions | 6 districts |
| Mayor | Bernd Witzel (FW) |
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| Area | 32.55 km2 (12.57 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 148 m (486 ft) |
| Population | 31,176 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 958 /km2 (2,481 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | FB |
| Postal code | 61231 |
| Area code | 06032 |
| Website | www.bad-nauheim.de |
Bad Nauheim is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany. As of 2004[update], Bad Nauheim has a population of 30,365. The town is located approximately 35 kilometers (22 mi) north of Frankfurt am Main, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range. It is a world-famous resort, noted for its salt springs, which are used to treat heart and nerve diseases. It is Bad Nauheim after which the Nauheim bath is named.[2] A Nauheim or "effervescent" bath is a type of spa bath through which carbon dioxide is bubbled.[2][3] This bath was one of several types of hydrotherapy used at Battle Creek Sanitarium[4] and it was also used at Maurice bathhouse, in Bathhouse Row in the early 1900s, during the heyday of hydrotherapy.[5]
In the old town center of Bad Nauheim is the barn at the gate to the castle: The gate, the 'Burgpforte', was used by Elvis Presley as the motif of a record cover for his 1959 #1 hitrecord 'A Big Hunk o' Love'. Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim during his time with the United States Army in Friedberg. Other famous people who have stayed in the town include Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata – founder of Tata Group of Companies (he died in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904 aged 65), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (as a boy, FDR had been taken for several extended visits to Bad Nauheim where his father underwent the water cure for his heart condition) and the Saudi Arabian football team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup and General George S. Patton, who celebrated his sixtieth birthday in the grand ballroom of the Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim.
On September 29, 1945 General Dwight D. Eisenhower reassigned General Patton from his beloved 3rd Army, the army he successfully led from the Normandy landings to Czechoslovakia as Eisenhower could no longer keep General Patton in position as the Military Governor of Bavaria. General Patton was assigned to command the Fifteenth Army with its headquarters in Bad Nauheim. On December 9, 1945, General Patton left Bad Nauheim for a hunting trip near Mannheim, which resulted in a fatal car crash that took his life.
The Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim, was also the location of the Gestapo led internment of around 115 americans who worked in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, December 1941. The group left Bad Nauheim on May 12, 1942.
In addition, during World War II Hitler had a command complex in nearby Langenhain-Ziegenberg called Adlerhorst, "the Eagle's Nest" (not to be confused with Kehlsteinhaus of Obersalzberg, which was never referred to as "the Eagle's Nest" by the Nazis).
Bad Nauheim was used as a residential area for American occupation forces after World War II. Despite its proximity to Frankfurt am Main and Hitler's command complex, Bad Nauheim was totally spared from Allied bombing. American occupants from that time were told that President Roosevelt had loved the town so much from his days there that he ordered it spared.
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Education
- Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau
- Ernst-Ludwig-Schule (Gymnasium)
- St. Lioba Gymnasium (Gymnasium)
- Stadtschule an der Wilhelmskirche (Grund- und Hauptschule)
- Stadtschule Am Solgraben (Haupt- und Realschule)
The novel The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is set in part at Bad Nauheim.
International relations
Bad Nauheim is twinned with:
Oostkamp, Belgium
Bad Langensalza, Germany
Chaumont, France
Buxton, England, United Kingdom
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States
Gallery
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A wing of the Sprudelhof
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The Sprudelhof courtyard
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The Sprudelhof
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Fountain in the Sprudelhof
References
- ^ "Die Bevölkerung der hessischen Gemeinden" (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2011. http://www.statistik-hessen.de/static/publikationen/A/AI2_AII_AIII_AV_10-1hj_pdf.zip.
- ^ a b Glanze, W.D., Anderson, K.N., & Anderson, L.E, ed (1990). Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary (3rd ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: The C.V. Mosby Co.. ISBN 0-8016-3227-7. p.797
- ^ Kellogg, J.H., M.D., Superintendent (1908). The Battle Creek Sanitarium System. History, Organisation, Methods. Michigan: Battle Creek. pp. 79,81,83,170,175,187. http://www.archive.org/details/battlecreeksani00kellgoog. Retrieved 2009-10-30. Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
- ^ Kellogg, J.H. (1908) pp.79,81,83,170,175,187
- ^ Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program / The Maurice Bathhouse: Technical Report 4. National Park Service. June 1985.
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