Landgrave's Fountain

The "saltiest" mineral spring of Bad Homburg was discovered in 1899, making it one of its youngest. Named after Landgrave Frederick II "with the silver leg", it was originally adorned by an unclothed water nymph laying in front of a spring emerging from the rock. The Art Nouveau-style work, completed in 1908, was praised far and wide because the artist had understood how to "recreate the beauty of the female body in an aesthetic way that is true to life and ideal". Some locals found it too lifelike, so in 1955 the naked nymph was replaced by the serious-looking landgrave. Initially, the sodium-chloride acidulous water, which is rich in both table salt and iron, was used for baths, then from 1903 as a drinking cure for liver and gallbladder disorders.