Bad Soden am Taunus (, ), commonly known as Bad Soden, is a town and spa in the Main-Taunus-Kreis,

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. It had a population of 22,563 , up from 21,412 in 2005.

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and other surrounding cities. It is known for its various springs, which contain carbonic acid gas and various iron oxides. The waters are used both internally and externally, and are widely exported. Soden lozenges (), condensed from the waters, are also in great demand. Bad Soden has a well-appointed Kurhaus, an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and a hospital. It also has a residential building by the architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Bad Soden has two Districts: Altenhein am Taunus and Neuenhein am Taunus.

Mayors

Mayors from 1893: * 1893–1912: Georg Busz * 1912–1920: Friedrich Höh * 1920–1923: Niederschulte * 1925–1937: Alfred Benninghoven * 1937–1939: Jakob Rittgen * 1939–1945: Karl Bohle * 1945–1948: Kuno Mayer * 1948–1957: Gilbert Just * 1957–1967: August Karl Wallis * 1967–1973: Helmuth Schwinge * 1973–1977: Hans-Helmut Kämmerer * 1977–1985: Volker Hodann * 1985–1986: Hans Jörg Röhrich (official by the government) * 1986–1992: Berthold R. Gall * 1992–2004: Kurt E. Bender * 2004–2018: Norbert Altenkamp * 2018–present: Frank Blasch

Notable people

* Elvira Bach (born 1951), artist and painter, she was born in Neuenhain (Taunus) and lives in Berlin since 1970 * Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of

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, worked in Bad Soden before moving to the Netherlands with his family * Peter Lang (1878–1954), member of the parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic * Christian Seybold (1695–1768), artist of the era of

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; was baptized in Neuenhain (Taunus), lived until 1715 in Soden * Georg Thilenius (1868–1937), ethnologist and anthropologist * Sabine Winter (born 1992), table tennis player, was born in Bad Soden * Edward Wunderly, physician and

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politician, was from Bad Soden

Twin towns – sister cities

Bad Soden is twinned with: * Rueil-Malmaison, France (1975) *

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, Austria (1984) * Františkovy Lázně, Czech Republic (1992) * Yōrō, Japan (2004) * Franklin, United States (2016)

Gallery

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References in Literature

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

's Anna Karenina, the Scherbatskys retire to Bad Soden to cure Kitty's illness. In

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

's " Spring Torrents," Dimitry Sanin takes a trip with his future lover, Gemma, and her current fiancé to Soden, "a small town about half an hour's distance from Frankfurt". Featured heavily in Part 3 of

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's Gravity's Rainbow.

References

External links

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