In 1899 he won the Championship of Germany, played in Homburg, by defeating A.W. Gore in the final in three straight sets and subsequently winning against Irishman Harold Mahoney in the challenge round in five sets.
The following month certain divisions of Linotype-Hell AG were spun off into new companies, one of which was Linotype Library GmbH with headquarters at Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.
Bad Kreuznach (district) | Bad Nauheim | Der Spiegel | Der Rosenkavalier | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Rotenburg an der Fulda | Bad Company | Bad Religion | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Spittal an der Drau | Limburg an der Lahn | Weiden in der Oberpfalz | ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Marienberg | Bad Marienberg (Verbandsgemeinde) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Bad Frankenhausen | Bad Brains | Bad Oeynhausen | Bad Langensalza | Dillingen an der Donau | Breaking Bad | Bad Kissingen | Van der Graaf Generator | Bad Segeberg | Kirchdorf an der Krems | Bad Manners | Bad Hersfeld | Der Freischütz | Befehlshaber der U-Boote | Bad Tölz |
In Hesse, seven towns with a population of more than 50,000 obtained the status of a Sonderstatusstadt: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fulda, Giessen, Hanau, Marburg, Rüsselsheim and Wetzlar.
Jan Felix Knobel (born 16 January 1989 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) is a German decathlete.