Bad Homburg Therme Plus
- Location
- Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Hesse, Germany, Germany
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Bad Homburg Therme Plus draws on the distinguished heritage of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, a royal spa town in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt that served as the summer residence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and gave its name to the homburg hat, the distinctive stiff-brimmed felt hat style invented here and popularized by the British Prince of Wales who visited the fashionable resort in the 1880s. The town's grand casino, established in the 1840s and one of the most elegant in Europe, is believed to have directly inspired Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Gambler after the Russian author visited and lost significant sums at its tables, ensuring Bad Homburg an enduring place in world literature. The thermal saline spring waters here have attracted European royalty, diplomats, and celebrities for two centuries, and the modern therme continues this tradition of refined hydrotherapy in a landscape of imperial parks and belle époque spa architecture.