Bad Orb is a cute little town in the Spessart hills in the German state of Hessen, about 60 km east of Frankfurt. Since it only had 10,172 inhabitants at last count (end of 2019), you will not be shocked to learn that there is no opera house in Bad Read More …
Bad Orb is in the Orb Valley on the Orb River, a left-tributary of the Kinzig (meaning it comes in from your left-hand side as you are facing downstream). For most of its history, the town was only called “Orb” — until 1909, when it finally got state permission to Read More …
Bad Orb is easy to reach by bicycle from Frankfurt, provided you feel up to riding a distance of about 60 km. Just take the regional cycling route R3, which follows the banks of the Main River to and through Frankfurt, and then goes up the Kinzig Valley starting in Read More …
Scheduled train service on the branch line from Wächtersbach to Bad Orb was discontinued in 1995. Since then, if you want to go to Bad Orb by public transport, you have to get off the train at Wächtersbach and take a bus from there. The former railway station at Bad Read More …
Anyone who grew up and went to school in Frankfurt has probably been to the Wegscheide, which is a camp for Frankfurt school classes up on a pass in the Spessart hills, not quite four kilometers east of Bad Orb. The name Wegscheide means parting of the ways, not only 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 …