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See also:SCHWALBACH, or LANGENSCHWALBACH , a favourite See also:German See also:health resort, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, pleasantly situated in a deep valley, near the junction of the See also:Schwalbach with the See also:Aar, 12 M . N.W. from See also:Wiesbaden, on the railway Dotzheim-Dietz . Permanent See also:population (1905) 2836 . Besides a large kursaal, the See also:town has four churches, two Evangelical, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and an See also:English, a See also:synagogue and several See also:schools . There are eight springs, which are largely impregnated in varying proportions with See also:iron and carbonic See also:acid, and are used both for drinking and bathing . They are especially efficacious in feminine disorders, and the greater number of visitors (about 6000 annually) are ladies . The public grounds are prettily laid out and there are numerous fashionable hotels . See Frickhoffer, See also:Die Eisenquellen zu Schwalbach (2nd ed., Schwalbach, 1888), and A . Genth, Geschichte See also:des Kurortes Schwalbach (3rd ed., Wiesbaden, 1884) . |
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