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37 unusual facts about Bad Nauheim


At the Hop

It was sung by Elvis Presley in Bad Nauheim in 1959, and can be found on the bootleg album Greetings from Germany.

Bad Nauheim station

Bad Nauheim station is a station in the town of Bad Nauheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main–Weser Railway.

Battle of Nauheim

The Battle of Nauheim (also known as the Battle of the Johannisberg or Johannesberg) was a battle of the Seven Years' War fought near Bad Nauheim in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel on 30 August 1762.

Caroline Link

Caroline Link (born June 2, 1964 in Bad Nauheim, Germany), is a German film director and screenwriter.

Curt Netto

He retired in 1902 due to health reasons and from 1906 resided at the spa resort of Bad Nauheim in Hesse.

Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit

It was founded on 10 November 1949 and is based in Bad Nauheim.

Dieter Trautwein

After several postings as a vicar in Königstein, Limburg and Bad Nauheim he served from 1963 to 1970 in positions involving him with the training of new ministers in Frankfurt am Main.

Franz Ritter von Epp

Suffering from a heart condition, he was hospitalized at Bad Nauheim at the end of the war.

Franz-Hermann Brüner

Brüner was born in Bad Nauheim in Hesse and began his working life as an apprentice businessman in Darmstadt in 1968.

Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau

The Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau is a private Waldorf school located in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Friedberg station

On 13 July 1901 the Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf–Bad Homburg line opened; this was part of a line from Bad Nauheim to Wiesbaden, also known as the Bäderbahn (Spa Railway).

Friedrich Gumpert

From 1860 he was a horn player, first in Bad Nauheim, then (after completing his military service) in Halle.

George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

George Christian then attempted to purchase the district of Dorheim, including the salt mine of Nauheim, which was very important for the economy of Hanau.

George Frederik Willem Borel

George Frederik Willem Borel (Maastricht, Netherlands 22 August 1837 to Bad Nauheim, Germany, 4 August 1907) was a major general in the Netherlands, notable for his involvement in the Banjarmasin and Aceh Wars.

George Herbert Morrell

George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL (1845, Adderbury – 30 September 1906, Bad Nauheim) was an English politician and lawyer.

Glen Springs Sanitarium

The drillers were disappointed, but, under scientific analysis, the water proved to have greater curative powers than those found at the Nauheim Springs in Germany, the leading spa of the day.

Known in the early 1900s as the "Nauheim of America", it remained a noted landmark of the area until it was demolished in 1996.

Hans-Jürgen Riemenschneider

Hans-Jürgen Reimenschneider (born May 4, 1949 in Bad Nauheim) is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s.

Holger Geschwindner

Holger Geschwindner (born September 12, 1945 in Bad Nauheim, Hesse) is a former basketball player, and is the mentor, coach and friend of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki.

Hünstetten

The coat of arms was approved in December 1979 by the State Archive in Darmstadt, and was given its form by Bad Nauheim heraldic artist Heinz Ritt after the community’s guidelines.

Karl Hürthle

Later in his career, he worked at the physiological institute at Tübingen, and also in the department of experimental pathology and therapy at the Kerckhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim (now known as the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research).

Karl Rasche

In December 1943, he joined the Executive Group West in Bad Nauheim.

Knut Fleckenstein

Knut Fleckenstein (born 20 December 1953 in Bad Nauheim) is a German politician who serves as an MEP for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Leland B. Morris

On December 14, most of the American diplomatic corps still in Germany, including Morris and Kennan, were detained by German authorities and held at a former resort near Bad Nauheim.

Louis P. Lochner

Lochner was interned for nearly five months at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt am Main, before being released in May 1942 as part of a prisoner exchange for interned German diplomats and correspondents.

Magnetophon

American audio engineer Jack Mullin acquired two Magnetophon recorders and fifty reels of magnetic tape from a German radio station at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt in 1945.

Main–Weser Railway

Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen.

From December 2009 to December 2011 a pair of Euro City trains on line 62 ran from Siegen to Klagenfurt over the line between Giessen and Frankfurt, stopping at Bad Nauheim.

Octavian Smigelschi

In 1912, with his disease worsening, he left for treatment at Bad Nauheim.

Otto Wissig

He came to Bad Nauheim in October 1892, where he had the Dankeskirche built.

Philipp Scharwenka

Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (16 February 1847, Samter, Grand Duchy of Posen – 16 July 1917, Bad Nauheim) was a German composer and teacher of music.

Ray Barracks, Friedberg, Germany

He did not live on base at Ray Barracks, but was able to live in the nearby resort city of Bad Nauheim.

Robert Henry Best

When the United States declared war on Nazi Germany on December 11, 1941, Best was arrested along with other U.S. reporters and held for deportation at an internment camp in Bad Nauheim.

Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim

Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim, also known as EC Bad Nauheim, is an ice hockey team in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

The Good Soldier

Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham (the “good soldier” of the book’s title) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

Thorsten Dauth

Thorsten Dauth (born March 11, 1968 in Bad Nauheim, Hessen) is a retired male decathlete from Germany.

Ward McAllister

He used the earnings from his legal prowess to journey throughout Europe's great cities and spas—Bath, Pau, Bad Nauheim, and the like-—where he observed the mannerisms of the titled nobility.