Bad Nauheim (Бад-Наухайм)

 quarter (urban subdivision), draw only border

Bad Nauheim is located in the valley of the Usa, at the foot of the Johannisberg and has been inhabited for several thousand years. The precious salt water from the springs, bubbling up through the ground, has drawn people to this area for a long time.
Excavation findings from the stone age, bronze age, iron age, and from Celtic and old Germanic settlements, as well as from Roman and Franconian cultures, were found throughout the area. At one time, the salt walls even belonged to Napoleon I, who later gave them as a gift to one of his generals. Nauheim was still a village with fewer than 2000 inhabitants 150 years ago. People lived mainly by farming. Visitors came only to see the modest country bath houses or to use the first drinking or bathing springs.
In 1869 Nauheim was officially called Bad Nauheim, which gave the town the status of Kurort, a health spa town. The salty water is used to cure heart problems and other illnesses. Clinics were built to hold several thousand patients, who still come to Bad Nauheim to be cured.
In 1959 the town became known to a generation of young Americans as a military housing area a few miles from Friedberg's Ray Barracks, thanks to a certain US Army draftee, PFC E. Presley.