page_title: Bad Schwalbach
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bad Schwalbach / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Übersichtskarte von Langenschwalbach, 1728.
context_page_description: Bad Schwalbach is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
context_section_description: Bad Schwalbach was first mentioned in a document in 1352 as Langinswalbach. The first reliable report of the mineral springs came in 1568 from the Worms doctor Tabernaemontanus, who also made  the place known in his 1581 work Neuw Wasserschatz (New Water Resources). Although Langenschwalbach was utterly destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, it was quickly rebuilt, and the healing water trade began to blossom. At first, the water would be sold by the jug or barrel throughout Europe by mail order. Only a few seekers of healing undertook the arduous journey to the Taunus.
  The health resort started at the beginning of the 19th century only after the improvement of road conditions through construction.  The Aartalbahn (railway) from Wiesbaden to Langenschwalbach, finished in 1889, also contributed substantially to its founding. Many crowned heads, princes and counts then came to take the waters and visit the gaming parlours where few strict rules applied. After the end of the First World War, the nobility quickly lost importance and thus began the long, drawn-out and somewhat painful transition from a luxury spa to a public one, which only ended after the Second World War.
  In a wood near Bad Schwalbach in late 1800 or early 1801, Katharina Pfeifer is said to have borne the outlaw Schinderhannes (Johannes Bückler) a child.
caption: Map of Langenschwalbach in 1728
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