Bad Soden

Bad Soden
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Bad Soden
Coordinates: 50°08′N 08°30′E / 50.133°N 8.500°ECoordinates: 50°08′N 08°30′E / 50.133°N 8.500°E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Government
• Mayor	Norbert Altenkamp (CDU)
Area
• Total	12.55 km^2 (4.85 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	22,161
• Density	1,800/km^2 (4,600/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	65812
Dialling codes	06196, 06174 (Altenhain)
Vehicle registration	MTK
Website	www.bad-soden.de

Bad Soden (also: Bad Soden am Taunus) is a town and spa in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany. Population 21,412 (2005).

Residential building in Bad Soden, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Information

Bad Soden is a residential town for commuters working in Frankfurt am Main. 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 (German: Sodener Pastillen), condensed from the waters, are also in great demand. Bad Soden has a large and well-appointed Kurhaus, an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and a small hospital. It also has a residential building by the architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Bad Soden has two Districts: Altenhein am Taunus and Neuenhein am Taunus

Notable people

Otto Frank (1961)

• Christian Seybold (1695-1768), artist of the era of Baroque; was baptized in Neuenhain (Taunus), lived until 1715 in Soden
• Georg Thilenius (1868-1937), ethnologist and anthropologist
• Peter Lang (1878-1954), member of the parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic
• Otto Frank, (1889-1980), father of Anne Frank, worked in Bad Soden before moving to the Netherlands with his family.
• Elvira Bach (born 1951), German artist and painter, she was born in Neuenhain (Taunus) and lives in Berlin since 1970
• Sabine Winter, (born 1992), German table tennis player, was born in Bad Soden.
• Michael Jung (born 1982), German equestrian

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Bad Soden is twinned with:^[2]

• Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria, since 1984^[2][3]
• Rueil-Malmaison, France^[2]
• Yoro-cho, Japan^[2]
• Františkovy Lázně, Czech Republic^[2]

Gallery

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  The old Park

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  New park with Catholic Church

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  Protestant Church

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  "Paulinenschlösschen"

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  "Badehaus" - The bathhouse

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  The "Königsteiner Straße"

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  Quellenpark

References in Literature

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

In Ivan Turgenev'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".

References

1. "Bevölkerung der hessischen Gemeinden". Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (in German). August 2016.
2. "Partnerstädte" (in German). Bad Soden am Taunus. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
3. "Partnerstädte". Stadtgemeinde Kitzbühel (in German). Retrieved 2008-08-04.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Soden". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Internetauftritt der Stadt Bad Soden am Taunus
• There is literature about Bad Soden in the Hessian Bibliography
• Literature by and about Bad Soden in the German National Library catalogue