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Bad Nauheim is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany.

Location and Population
As of 2012, Bad Nauheim has a population of 30,788. The town is approximately 35 km north of Frankfurt am Main, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range.

Bad Nauheim as a Spa Town
The town became is famous as a health resort during the period xxxx-yyyy.The prefix 'Bad' distinguished the town as a spa town and differentiated it from the other Nauheim which is also located in Hesse.The town was noted for its salt springs, which became to be used to treat heart conditions as well as diseases and conditions affecting the nerve system.The Konitzky Foundation, a charitable foundation and hospital for those without means, was founded in 1896 and its building occupies a central place next to the Kurpark.

Effervescent Baths
The town developed hydro-therapeutic treatments which became adopted elsewhere in the world. A "effervescent" bath, named after Bad Nauheim, is a type of spa bath through which carbon dioxide is bubbled. This bath was developed in Nauheim and the term Nauheim Bath was used in many different spa towns where effervescent bath treatments were used.Nauheim Baths were one of several types of hydrotherapy used at Battle Creek Sanitarium ,In addition,during the early NHS eraHarrogate's Royal Baths offerred Nauheim baths as part of the hospital's extensive hydrotherapy treatments.Nauheim baths were also employed at Maurice bathhouse, in Bathhouse Row in the early 1900s, during the heyday of hydrotherapy.

Nauheim during the Second World War and its Aftermath
Bad Nauheim was totally spared from Allied bombing. American occupants from that time were told that President Roosevelt had loved the town so much from his days there that he ordered it spared.

The Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim was also the location of the Gestapo-led internment of around 115 Americans who worked in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, December 1941. The group left Bad Nauheim on May 12, 1942. Bad Nauheim was used as a residential area for American occupation forces after World War II. On September 29, 1945 General Dwight D. Eisenhower reassigned General Patton from his beloved 3rd Army, the army he successfully led from the Normandy landings, to Czechoslovakia.Eisenhower felt that he could no longer keep General Patton in position as the Military Governor of Bavaria. General Patton was re-assigned to command the Fifteenth Army and his headquarters were located in Bad Nauheim. On December 9, 1945, General Patton left Bad Nauheim for a hunting trip near Mannheim, during the trip he was involved in a head on collision with a US Army cargo truck.He was rushed to a hospital where he subsquently died.

=The Holocaust= Before the Holocaust there was an on-and-off Jewish presence in Bad Nauheim since around 1303. Before the Holocaust nearly 400 Jews lived in the town, making up nearly 3% of the population. On Kristallnacht the schoolhouse was desecrated and ransacked as well as Jewish stores, businesses and the synagogue. Many Jews were taken that night to concentration camps. Some were let out. Of those let out many were rearrested. By the end of the Holocaust there were just three Jews left in Bad Nauheim. For the most part those who weren't murdered had left the country.

Notable People who stayed at Bad Nauheim
In the old town center of Bad Nauheim is the barn at the gate to the castle. The gate, the 'Burgpforte', was used by Elvis Presley as the motif of a record cover for his 1959 #1 hit record 'A Big Hunk o' Love'. Presley lived in Bad Nauheim during his time with the United States Army in Friedberg. There is an annual Elvis festival in the city, starting in 2002.

Other famous people who have stayed in the town include Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata – founder of Tata Group of Companies (he died in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904 aged 65), the Irish novelist and man of letters Patrick Augustine Sheehan holidayed at the Hotel Augusta Victoria in Bad Nauheim 6–23 September 1904, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (as a boy, FDR had been taken for several extended visits to Bad Nauheim where his father underwent the water cure for his heart condition), the Saudi Arabian football team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, General George S. Patton, who celebrated his sixtieth birthday in the grand ballroom of the Grand Hotel and Albert Kesselring, Nazi General who died there in 1960.

Sons and daughters of the town

 * Holger Geschwindner (born 1945), basketball player
 * Rainer Philipp (born 1950), hockey player
 * Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), physicist and historian of science
 * Caroline Link (born 1964), Director and Oscar - winner (  Nowhere in Africa )
 * Andreas Maier (1967), writer
 * Sina-Valeska Jung (born 1979), actress
 * Julian Dudda (born 1993), professional football player

In Popular Culture
The novel The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (published 1915) is set in part at Bad Nauheim.

The Sprudelhof
This complex is recognized as the largest center of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil in German) in Germany.

Education

 * Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau
 * Ernst-Ludwig-Schule (Gymnasium)
 * St. Lioba Gymnasium (Gymnasium)
 * Stadtschule an der Wilhelmskirche (Grund- und Hauptschule)
 * Stadtschule Am Solgraben (Haupt- und Realschule)

International relations
Bad Nauheim is twinned with:
 * 🇧🇪 Oostkamp, Belgium
 * 🇩🇪 Bad Langensalza, Germany
 * 🇫🇷 Chaumont, France
 * 🇬🇧 Buxton, England, United Kingdom
 * 🇺🇸 Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States