DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Hessen	Hesse
Regierungsbezirk: Darmstadt
Kreis: Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

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Bad Schwalbach is situated at an elevation of 361 m in the Taunus, about 20 km northwest of Wiesbaden. Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927) is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. The municipality has a populaton of about 10,700 (2015).

Bad Schwalbach was first mentioned in a document in 1352 as Langinswalbach. The first reliable report of the mineral springs came in 1568 from the Worms doctor Tabernaemontanus, who also made the place known in his 1581 work 'Neuw Wasserschatz' (New Water Resources). Although Langenschwalbach was utterly destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), it was quickly rebuilt, and the healing water trade began to blossom. At first, the water would be sold by the jug or barrel throughout Europe by mail order. Only a few seekers of healing undertook the arduous journey to the Taunus. The health resort started at the beginning of the 19th century only after the improvement of road conditions through construction. The Aartalbahn (railway) from Wiesbaden to Langenschwalbach, finished in 1889, also contributed substantially to its founding. Many crowned heads, princes and counts then came to take the waters and visit the gaming parlours where few strict rules applied. After the end of the World War I, the nobility quickly lost importance and thus began the long, drawn-out and somewhat painful transition from a luxury spa to a public one, which only ended after the World War II.

The Kurhaus [left] was built in 1879 by the architect Philipp Hofmann in historicist style of late Italian Renaissance. The building was modernised in 1930/31 and reopened in 1974 after a through renovation.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Schwalbach, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Schwalbach; http://www.belocal.de/bad-schwalbach/sehenswuerdigkeiten/kurhaus/140724]