Bad Homburg
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, commonly referred to as Bad Homburg, is a spa town just outside Frankfurt in Hesse, Germany. With a sizeable castle and old town, the thermal springs and a casino frequented by kings, as well as its present highest per capita wealth in all of Germany, the city adopted an apt motto Champagnerluft und Tradition.Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Pedelecs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 56,700 residents
- Description: seat of Hochtaunuskreis and city in Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe”, “Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe”, “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”, and “Homburg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Redeemer, Bad Homburg and Bad Homburg station.
Church of the Redeemer, Bad Homburg
Church
Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of the Redeemer of Bad Homburg belongs to the Protestant Church in Germany. Finished in 1908, the building is outwardly of a heavy, Romanesque Revival appearance, while its interior is in a neo-Byzantine style, with rich marble wall decorations and gold mosaics covering the domed ceiling, leading to the church sometimes being called 'Bad Homburg's Hagia Sophia'.
Bad Homburg station
Railway station
Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bad Homburg station is located in Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany on the Homburg Railway and was opened on 26 October 1907. It is used by about 19,000 passengers each day.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberursel and Kirdorfer Feld bei Bad Homburg.
Oberursel
Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oberursel, or Oberursel, is a small city in Hesse. The city is in the area of the Taunus mountain range in Hesse, north of Frankfurt.
Dillingen
Suburb
Photo: MdE, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Dillingen is a suburb, which is situated 4 km north of Bad Homburg.
Bad Homburg
- Categories: district capital, designated spa town, residenz, city with special status, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Hochtaunuskreis, South Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.2284° or 50° 13′ 42″ northLongitude
8.613° or 8° 36′ 47″ eastPopulation
56,700Elevation
186 metres (610 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE BHOOpen location code
9F2C6JH7+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 240128258OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Bad Homburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Arabic: “باد هومبورغ (فور در هوهه)”
- Arabic: “باد هومبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Armenian: “Բադ Հոմբուրգ”
- Asturian: “Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe”
- Asturian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Asturian: “Bad Homburg”
- Azerbaijani: “Bad-Xomburq”
- Basque: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Bavarian: “Bad Homburg”
- Belarusian: “Бад-Гомбург”
- Belarusian: “Бад-Хомбург”
- Bulgarian: “Бад Хомбург”
- Catalan: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Cebuano: “Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe”
- Cebuano: “Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe”
- Cebuano: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Chechen: “Бад-Хомбург-фор-дер-Хоьэ”
- Chinese: “巴特洪堡”
- Croatian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Czech: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Danish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Dutch: “Bad Homburg vor der Hohe”
- Dutch: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Esperanto: “Bad Homburg”
- Estonian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Finnish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Finnish: “Bad Homburg”
- French: “Bad Hombourg”
- French: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- French: “Bad Homburg”
- French: “Hombourg”
- German: “Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe”
- German: “Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe”
- German: “Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe”
- German: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- German: “Bad Homburg”
- German: “Homburg vor der Höhe”
- German: “Homburg”
- Greek: “Μπαντ Χόμπουργκ φορ ντερ Χέε”
- Greek: “Μπαντ Χόμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “באד הומבורג”
- Hungarian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Icelandic: “Bad Homburg”
- Indonesian: “Bad Homburg”
- Irish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Italian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Italian: “Bad Homburg”
- Japanese: “バート・ホムブルク・フォア・デア・ヘーエ”
- Japanese: “バート・ホムブルク”
- Japanese: “バート・ホンブルク・フォア・デア・ヘーエ”
- Japanese: “バート・ホンブルク”
- Kazakh: “Бад-Хомбург”
- Kirghiz: “Бад-Хомбург”
- Korean: “바트홈부르크포어데어회에”
- Kurdish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Ladin: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Lithuanian: “Bad Homburgas”
- Luxembourgish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bad Homburg”
- Macedonian: “Бад Хомбург”
- Malay: “Bad Homburg”
- Moksha: “Бад-Гомбург”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bad Homburg”
- Norwegian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Persian: “باد همبورگ فور در هوهه”
- Persian: “باد هومبورگ فور در هوهه”
- Piemontese: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Polish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Portuguese: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Romanian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Romanian: “Bad Homburg”
- Romansh: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Russian: “Бад-Хомбург-фор-дер-Хёэ”
- Russian: “Бад-Хомбург”
- Russian: “Хомбург”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Serbian: “Бад Хомбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Slovak: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Slovenian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- South Azerbaijani: “باد هومبورق فور در هوهه”
- Spanish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Spanish: “Bad Homburg”
- Swahili: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Swedish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Swedish: “Bad Homburg”
- Tagalog: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Tatar: “Бад-Һомбург-фон-дер-Һөэ”
- Thai: “บัดฮอมบูร์กฟอร์เดอร์เฮอเออ”
- Thai: “บาทฮ็อมบวร์คฟอร์แดร์เฮอเออ”
- Turkish: “Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe”
- Turkish: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Turkish: “Bad Homburg”
- Ukrainian: “Бад-Гомбург”
- Ukrainian: “Бад-Гомбурґ”
- Urdu: “بیڈ ہومبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Volapük: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Welsh: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- Western Frisian: “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
- “Bad Homburg vor der Höhe”
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