Bad Nauheim

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Bad Nauheim
Coordinates: 50°22′N8°45′E / 50.367°N 8.750°E / 50.367; 8.750
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Darmstadt
District Wetteraukreis
Founded900
Subdivisions6 districts
Government
   Mayor (202329) Klaus Kreß [1] (Ind.)
Area
  Total32.55 km2 (12.57 sq mi)
Elevation
148 m (486 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [2]
  Total33,445
  Density1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
61231
Dialling codes 06032
Vehicle registration FB
Website www.bad-nauheim.de

Bad Nauheim is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany.

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As of 2020, Bad Nauheim has a population of 32,493. The town is approximately 35 kilometres (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. A Nauheim (or "effervescent") bath, named after Bad Nauheim, [3] is a type of spa bath through which carbon dioxide is bubbled. [3] [4] This bath was one of several types of hydrotherapy used at the Battle Creek Sanitarium [5] and it was also used at the Maurice Bathhouse in Bathhouse Row in the early 1900s during the heyday of hydrotherapy. [6] The Konitzky Foundation, a charitable foundation and hospital for those without economic means, was founded in 1896 and its building occupies a central place next to the Kurpark.

History

Before the Holocaust, there had been an on-and-off Jewish presence in Bad Nauheim since around 1303. At that time, nearly 400 Jews lived in the town, making up nearly 3% of the population. On Kristallnacht, the schoolhouse was desecrated and ransacked as well as Jewish stores, businesses and the synagogue. Many Jews were taken that night to concentration camps. Some were let out. Of those let out, many were rearrested. By the end of the Holocaust, there were just three Jews remaining in Bad Nauheim. For the most part, those who were not murdered had left the country. [7]

The Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim was also the location of the Gestapo-led internment of around 115 Americans who were working in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin in December 1941. The group would leave Bad Nauheim on 12 May 1942. [8]

In addition, during World War II, Adolf 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).

On 29 March 1945 Bad Nauheim was occupied by troops from the Third Army. It 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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Elvis Presley at Ray Barracks, 1958

Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim from 1958 to 1960 while in the U.S. Army. At the time, he was assigned to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor, 3d Armored Division, at Ray Barracks near Friedberg. Since 2002, Bad Nauheim has hosted an annual Elvis festival. [9]

Other famous people who have stayed in the town include Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group conglomerate company (he died in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904 at the age of 82),[ citation needed ] Irish novelist and Catholic priest Patrick Sheehan (who holidayed at the Hotel Augusta Victoria in Bad Nauheim from 6–23 September 1904), [10] Franklin D. 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), the Saudi Arabian football team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, George S. Patton (who celebrated his sixtieth birthday in the grand ballroom of the Grand Hotel), and Albert Kesselring, a Nazi general who died there in 1960.

Churches

Education

Mayors

The novel The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (published 1915) is set in part at Bad Nauheim.

The internment of American journalists at the Grand Hotel in 1942 is depicted in a section of the novel The War Begins in Paris (published in 2023).

Twin towns – sister cities

Bad Nauheim is twinned with: [12]

The Sprudelhof

The Sprudelhof is recognized as the largest center of Jugendstil within Germany.

Notable residents

See also

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