Bad Homburg Kurpark Therme

The Kaiser-Wilhelms-Bad in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is an imperial thermal spa whose elegant Kurpark — laid out in the English landscape style — became the favored resort of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who visited annually and lent his patronage to the spa town that gave its name to the homburg hat, which he popularized worldwide. The saline carbonated mineral springs of Bad Homburg, rising through Taunus slate and sandstone at the edge of the Taunus highlands north of Frankfurt, have been part of a long bathing tradition since the 17th century, and the spa town also claims the founding of the modern casino in 1841. The meticulously maintained Kurpark, with its English garden, Russian chapel, Siamese temple, and rose gardens — all gifts of royal guests — creates a thermal wellness setting of extraordinary cosmopolitan historic grandeur.