The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Tourists Flock to Wiesbaden
From Continent and America
Town Once German Resort Is Now Cosmopolitan
With Daily Trains Running From Paris,
Amsterdam and Berlin.

more than 100000 visitors went there
during the high season OF May and
June. This year. despite the April bad
weather, the season began in April and
will extend through the summer There
are many commodious hotels already
filling with outside guests. Indeed
more than half the population now Is
foreign. In the first quarter Of the
year there were 90T Americans spend
ing at least several days here. Hotel
proprietors say that they have received
letters from many of their old Ameri-
can guests making reservations for this
year. Aside from the small French
force of occupation, there are some 5000
French people and as many Dutch
visitors.
Sport Center Also.
wiesbaden's position at the foot of
the Taunus forest makes 1t favorite
point of departure for trampers and
lovers of sport Bride paths wind for
miles through the hills. There are daily
automobile tours through the woods
Wiesbaden, too. attracts sportsmen for
tennis and golf.
There is magnificent orchestra IN
wiesbaden the year around. Karl Muck,
formerly conductor or the Boston SYM
who will conduct special concerts in
May Prof. Abendroth and Director
Busch are also we'll known German con-
ductors who will participate in the
spring festival. The municipal opera Is
giving the entire Wagnerian repertoire
OF operas this spring.
Then there Is an intermezzo of cham
Der concerts. Among the prominent So
loists going to Wiesbaden in May are
the soprano Crete Stuckgold and the
vfolinists Alma Noodle and Alfred
Busch.
The most impressive building in Wies-
baden is the Kurhaus. This combines
probably more good and bad taste in
architecture than any building in Ger
many. The large concert hall. with
heavy columns and an apotheosis of
some deity in gold and rose on q deep
background of turquoise combines dig
nifty and splendor. The promenade with
many tinted glass and high central dome
sheds n rich carpet Of colored light.
But alongside this are two rooms where
only now and then tender couple ven
lures to wander. None but very stiff
Potsdam functionaries could possibly
feel at home here. Gilded maidens of
grotesaue. and bulging proportions
moulded in stucco and wood hold up
spinach green. These two rooms at least
throw In contrast the very modern and
highly artistic achievements in the rest
Of the building.
Attractive to Americans.
Wiesbaden. not only fer its music.
theaters and the most luxurious shops
OF any German watering place. but also
for the accommodations 1t offers, par
ticularly attracts Americans. There are
eight or ten large first class hotels. with
all modern comforts. Then there are
twenty or more smaller ana more modest
but almost equally comfortable hotels
Of tile second class. In ali of these 1t Is
still possible to make rernrvations. al
though they are bound to be crowded In
late May The city. however. Is essen
TALLY tourist city. where every house
outside of the villa quarter has a room
or two for visitors.
That the Dutch go to Wfesbacen/ from
preference to all other ws..ering places
is homage to Wiesbaden's cleanli-
ness.
Wiespaden is the dearest city In Ger
many now. This means that instead of
pension rates, averaging s: or SO day
as elsewhere In Germany, In Wlesbaden,
with various taxes, room and board cost
from SO to Sc a day. People who are
willing to go into pensions and private
families can still find comfortable ac-