Where to Stay in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hessen

What is Bad Homburg vor der Höhe known for?

The homburg took its title from this town, whose casino once drew kings and whose thermal springs put the Bad in front of Homburg long before anyone thought about headwear. Champagnerluft und Tradition is the municipal motto. The Weißer Turm rises over the castle and the old town, and the Sinclair-Haus and the Vortaunusmuseum handle art and local history between them.

What are the main landmarks in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe?

The Weißer Turm stands over the castle. Around it the Church of the Redeemer, the English Church, the Gedächtniskirche and the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche divide the older congregations, while the Kapelle zum Heiligen Kreuz and the foundation named Zur Himmelspforte keep going as smaller houses at the edges. Monuments crowd the streets.

The Hölderlindenkmal, the Monument landgravine Elizabeth, the Kriegerdenkmal and the Achtziger-Denkmal mark the memorial layer of a town much given to commemoration, and the Central Garage holds a motoring collection of an entirely different order.

What is the history of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe?

Castles came before cures. Burg Bommersheim survives as the ruin of that earlier order, and the Weißer Turm belongs to the castle that gave a landgraves' court its seat on the Taunus slope while the surrounding villages stayed farming settlements. Kirdorf and Seulberg were among them.

St. Johannes and the Evangelische Pfarrkirche Seulberg still mark those older cores. The court left an unusually foreign mark. An English Church stands in the town and a monument to landgravine Elizabeth survives beside the castle, both of them records of a small residence whose ruling family reached well past the Taunus for its connections.

Water changed the scale after that. Thermal springs turned the residence into a spa, a casino drew crowned visitors from across the continent, and the homburg hat carried the name of the place into wardrobes that had never been near it. Memorials record the harder centuries.

The Kriegerdenkmal, the Achtziger-Denkmal and the Vertriebenendenkmal stand for war and for the expellees resettled afterwards, and the Church of the Redeemer belongs to the same period of building. Two museums keep the account straight. The Vortaunusmuseum works on local history while the Sinclair-Haus shows art, and the Central Garage preserves a motoring collection that fits none of the older categories.

Where is Bad Homburg vor der Höhe?

Some 51 square kilometres of the Hochtaunuskreis belong to the town, laid across the southern slope of the Taunus where wooded height gives way to the plain. Frankfurt lies below. That position inside the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area explains why a spa town of this size keeps the hotel stock and the traffic of somewhere considerably larger.

Kirdorf sits apart from the middle.

What is the climate of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe?

Champagnerluft is the town's own word for it. The Taunus at its back shelters the slope while keeping the summer air lighter than it is down on the Frankfurt plain, which is precisely the quality the spa trade sold for generations. Winters stay temperate.

The Ellerhöhturm and its woods draw walkers through most of the year, and the thermal springs cover the days that turn wet.

How do you get to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe?

Frankfurt does the heavy lifting. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe belongs to the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and sits just outside the city, so most arrivals come up from the plain and finish with a short climb onto the Taunus slope. The Hochtaunuskreis roads meet here.

Kirdorf and the outlying parts are passed on the way to the Weißer Turm and the old town.