WILDBAD  , a watering-

place of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, picturesquely situated 1475 ft. above the sea, in the romantic pine-clad gorge of the Enz in the Black Forest, 28 m . W. of Stuttgart and 14 E. of Baden-Baden by rail . Pop . WILDE (1905) 3734 . It contains an Evangelical, a Roman Catholic and an English church, and has some small manufactures (cigars, paper and toys) . Its thermal alkaline springs have a temperature of 90 -10o° Fahr. and are used for bathing in cases of paralysis, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia and similar ailments . The fact that the springs rice within the baths, and are thus used at the fountain-head, is considered to contribute materially to their curative value . The water is used internally for affections of the stomach and digestive organs, and of the kidneys, bladder, &c . Wildbad possesses all the usual arrangements for the comfort and amusement of the visitors (over 15,000 annually), including large and well-appointed hotels, a Kurhaus, a Trink-Halle and promenades . The neighbourhood is picturesque, the most attractive spot being the Wildsee, of which legends are told . See W . T. v .

Renz,

Die Kur zu Wildbad (with Guide, Wildbad, 1888), and Weizsacker, Wildbad (2nd ed., 1905) .