The Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) was well known for his colorful, whimsical buildings with rounded edges and slanting towers, garishly decorated with thousands of small tiles. His buildings were never very practical, because he didn’t want to “enslave” people by locking them up in boxes with straight Read More …
On this house by the Quellenpark (Spring Park) in Bad Soden there are two different plaques, both with the momentous information that the opera composer Richard Wagner slept here on the night of August 12-13, 1860, which was his “first night on German soil” after “eleven years of exile from Read More …
This town — now an affluent suburb of Frankfurt — was only called Soden until 1922, when it finally got state permission to use the highly coveted word Bad in its name. The German word Bad means bath, so the towns that start with Bad are all spas. They all 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 …