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, 41 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 2 500 annually . See Baumann, Schlangenbad, mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung seiner Kur- and Bade-Anstalten (new ed., Wiesbaden, 1894); and Bertrand, Schlangenbad and seine Warmquellen (Heidelberg, 1878) .