1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Schlangenbad

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. N.W. of Wiesbaden, 4½ m. S. of Langenschwalbach, and 5 m. E. of Eltville on the Rhine, with which it is connected by a steam tramway. 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. Permanent population (1905) 400, while the number of visitors numbers about 2500 annually.

See Baumann, Schlangenbad, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kur- und Bade-Anstalten (new ed., Wiesbaden, 1894); and Bertrand, Schlangenbad und seine Warmquellen (Heidelberg, 1878).