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SCHWALBACH, or LANGENSCHWALBACH

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SCHWALBACH, or LANGENSCHWALBACH , a favourite See also:German See also:health resort, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, pleasantly situated in a deep valley, near the junction of the Schwalbach with the See also:Aar, 12 M. N.W. from See also:Wiesbaden, on the railway Dotzheim-Dietz. Permanent See also:population (1905) 2836. Besides a large kursaal, the See also:town has four churches, two Evangelical, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and an See also:English, a See also:synagogue and several See also:schools. There are eight springs, which are largely impregnated in varying proportions with See also:iron and carbonic See also:acid, and are used both for drinking and bathing. They are especially efficacious in feminine disorders, and the greater number of visitors (about 6000 annually) are ladies. The public grounds are prettily laid out and there are numerous fashionable hotels. See Frickhoffer, See also:Die Eisenquellen zu Schwalbach (2nd ed., Schwalbach, 1888), and A. Genth, Geschichte See also:des Kurortes Schwalbach (3rd ed., Wiesbaden, 1884).

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