Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe and its districts

Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe is the district town of the Hochtaunus district. Around 55,000 people currently live here. The center of the town is Louisenstraße, a shopping street that has largely been developed into a pedestrian zone. Here you will find shopping arcades, department stores and exclusive specialty stores. Inviting cafés invite you to take a break.

The spa district with the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade and the adjoining spa gardens begins right next to Louisenstraße. On the other side of the shopping mile is Dorotheenstraße, which leads directly to the Landgrave's Palace with Bad Homburg's landmark, the "White Tower".

Adjacent to the city center, the districts with residential quarters, commercial and leisure facilities provide an attractive mix as a preferred place to live on the edge of the Taunus and at the gates of the Main metropolis of Frankfurt.

City center

Louisenstraße: The pedestrian zone stretches from Schulberg to the town hall and is perfect for strolling and shopping. There are also all kinds of stores to discover in the lower area up to the Europakreisel traffic circle and the side streets are also worth a visit. Numerous festivals are celebrated on the city's shopping mile. The wine festival in May, the lantern festival on the last weekend in August or the first weekend in September and the harvest market in October.

There are numerous sights in the town center. Dorotheenstraße begins at the Landgrave's Palace with the two churches Erlöserkirche and St. Marien, the Sinclair House, the City Library and the Hölderlin House. The Kurpark invites you to take long walks in the middle of the town and tells the story of Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe with its monuments and fountains, the Russian Church and the two Thai salas.

Impressions from the city center

Districts

The incorporation of the surrounding villages began in 1901 with Kirdorf. Gonzenheim was incorporated in 1937. On December 31, 1971, the independent municipality of Dornholzhausen/Taunus was incorporated into Bad Homburg as part of the territorial reform in Hesse. On December 31, 1971, Ober-Eschbach was incorporated on a voluntary basis as part of the territorial reform in Hesse. On August 1, 1972, Ober-Erlenbach was incorporated by state law.