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We're starting our tour here at the Brunnen des Kurgastes—the Fountain of the Spa Guest—created in 1980 by sculptor Bonifatius Stirnberg, who studied under Joseph Beuys. What you're looking at is really a visual history of Bad Soden itself. The fountain features five bronze figures, each representing a different era of…

The Quellenpark started taking shape in 1856, though it didn't reach its current size until 1872. What you're looking at is essentially Bad Soden's foundation as a spa town—literally. The park was designed around the mineral springs that emerge here, which is where the name comes from. The Solquelle, that mineral sprin…

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We're starting our tour here at Wilhelmspark, which opened in 1911 as a spa destination for guests seeking Bad Soden's famous mineral waters. The garden architects Gebrüder Siesmayer designed it, and you can still see their work in how the park is organized around several natural springs. What you're looking at is a la…

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The Alter Kurpark opened in 1823, right when Bad Soden was beginning to develop as a spa town. What you're looking at is an English landscape garden—that style of deliberately natural-looking design that was fashionable across Europe at the time. The park has been expanded and redesigned several times since, but you ca…

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The Neuer Sprudel is one of Bad Soden's most distinctive natural resources, and you can see why the town built its entire spa identity around it. What you're looking at is a thermal spring—the water emerges naturally from the ground here with a remarkable mineral composition: over 18,000 milligrams per liter of dissolv…

We've moved from the older spa gardens into what's really the heart of Bad Soden's green landscape. The Neuer Kurpark opened in the mid-1960s—garden architect Herbert Werner Dirks shaped this 44-hectare park to connect the Eichwald forest all the way down to the town center. You can see how deliberately it's designed: …

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