Bad Soden am Taunus (, ), commonly known as Bad Soden, is a town and spa in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany. It had a population of 22,563 , up from 21,412 in 2005.
Information Bad Soden is a residential town for commuters working in Frankfurt am Main 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:Joachim Kromer: Bad Soden am Taunus Bestehen aus der Geschichte. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
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 Gerhard Bärsch (born 1988), politician Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank, 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 Baroque; 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 Milwaukee, Wisconsin politician, was from Bad Soden
Twin towns – sister cities
Bad Soden is twinned with: Rueil-Malmaison, France (1975) Kitzbühel, Austria (1984) Františkovy Lázně, Czech Republic (1992) Yōrō, Japan (2004) Franklin, United States (2016)
Gallery
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".
Featured heavily in Part 3 of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
See also Woco Group
References
External links Internetauftritt der Stadt Bad Soden am Taunus