Schlangenbad: a town of Germany, in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Darmstadt (region) of the German state of Hesse. 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. Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... Darmstadt is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the south of the country. ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) and has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ...
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The municipality of Schlangenbad consists of the parts Schlangenbad, Georgenborn, Wambach, Bärstadt, Hausen v.d.H., Obergladbach and Niedergladbach and has a total of ca.
Schlangenbad derives its name from "snake" (german "Schlange") since the region is home to a small population of aesculapian snakes, normally native to southern Europe.
SCHLANGENBAD, 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.
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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