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Schlangenbad

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, pleasantly situated in a deep and well-wooded valley of the Taunus range, 6 m. N.W. of Wiesbaden, 42 m. S. of Langenschwalbach, and 5 m. E. of Eltville on the Rhine, with which it is connected by a steam tramway. Its eight thermal springs are mostly used for bathing, and are efficacious in nervous complaints and feminine disorders. There is a handsome kursaal connected with the principal bathing establishment. Permanent population (1905) 400, while the number of visitors numbers about 2500 annually.

See Baumann, Schlangenbad, mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung seiner Kurand Bade-Anstalten (new ed., Wiesbaden, 1894); and Bertrand, Schlangenbad and seine Warmquellen (Heidelberg, 1878).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Schlangenbad'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/schlangenbad.html. 1910.
 
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