The city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is now an affluent suburb of Frankfurt am Main. In the 19th century, Homburg did not yet have the coveted word “Bad” in its name (it didn’t get that distinction until 1912), but it was nonetheless already a fashionable spa for the Read More …
These signs near the Goethe House, in the center of Frankfurt, show the beginnings of the Hölderlin Path (22 km) and the Goethe Trail (11 km). From here, the Hölderlin Path goes off to the left and the Goethe Trail goes off to the right — which is appropriate considering Read More …
A glance at a map of Germany will reveal that there are hundreds of place names that start with the word “Bad”, and you have probably guessed that this does not mean all these places are bad in the sense of awful or terrible. The German word Bad means “bath”, Read More …