Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse.
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28 Facts About Wiesbaden
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Wiesbaden is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, below the confluence of the Main, where the Rhine's main direction changes from north to west.
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Highest point of the Wiesbaden municipality is located northwest of the city center near the summit of the Hohe Wurzel, with an elevation of 608 metres above sea level.
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Wiesbaden has a temperate-oceanic climate with relatively cold winters and warm summers.
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The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia.
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The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830.
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In 1232 Wiesbaden became a Reichsstadt, an imperial city, of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Wiesbaden returned to the control of the House of Nassau in 1270 under Count Walram II, Count of Nassau.
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In 1329, under Adolf's son Gerlach I of Nassau-Weilburg the House of Nassau and thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Bavarian.
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Wiesbaden became the seat of the County of Nassau-Wiesbaden under Count Adolf I, eldest son of Gerlach.
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In 1925, Wiesbaden became the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine until the withdrawal of occupying forces from the Rhineland in 1930.
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Wiesbaden presented his last sermon before his arrest in Wiesbaden's Market Church.
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Wiesbaden was host to the Headquarters, U S Air Forces, Europe based at the former Lindsey Air Station from 1953 to 1973.
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Wiesbaden is home to the U S Army Europe Headquarters and Mission Command Center.
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Wiesbaden has long been famous for its thermal springs and spa.
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City of Wiesbaden is divided into 26 boroughs: five in the central city and 21 suburban districts.
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Current mayor of Wiesbaden is Gert-Uwe Mende of the Social Democratic Party, who was elected in 2019.
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Streets of central Wiesbaden are regularly congested with cars during rush hour.
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Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof is connected to the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line by a 13-kilometer branch line.
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Several German companies have their headquarters in Wiesbaden, including SGL Carbon, Dyckerhoff, KION Group, DBV-Winterthur, and R + V Versicherung.
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Wiesbaden is home to the "Industriepark Kalle-Albert", an industrial park in the southern quarter of Biebrich.
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Wiesbaden has a State Library and a conservatory, where Max Reger studied and taught as a young man.
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At 118 booths, Rheingau and Wiesbaden vintners offer their wine and sparkling wine and invite to discover the already well known and favored, but new vintages.
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Wiesbaden's Sternschnuppenmarkt is located at the central Schlossplatz and the neighbouring streets of the parliamentary building, old town hall, and market church.
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Since 2007 Wiesbaden has been home to SV Wehen Wiesbaden, an association football team that formerly played in nearby Taunusstein.
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