| Type: | Stadt |
| Image Coa: | Wappen Bad Soden am Taunus.svg |
| Coordinates: | 50.1333°N 38°W |
| Image Plan: | Bad Soden am Taunus in MTK.svg |
| State: | Hessen |
| Region: | Darmstadt |
| District: | Main-Taunus-Kreis |
| Elevation: | 130-385 |
| Area: | 12.55 |
| Postal Code: | 65812 |
| Area Code: | 06196, 06174 (Altenhain) |
| Licence: | MTK |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 06 4 36 001 |
| Divisions: | 3 Stadtteile: Bad Soden, Neuenhain, Altenhain |
| Website: | www.bad-soden.de |
| Mayor: | Frank Blasch[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2023 - 29 |
| Party: | CDU |
Bad Soden (pronounced as /de/; also: Bad Soden am Taunus) is a town and spa in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany. It had a population of 22,563, up from 21,412 in 2005.
Bad Soden is a residential town for commuters working in Frankfurt am Main and other surrounding cities. It is known for its various springs, which contain carbonic acid gas and various iron oxides. The waters are used both internally and externally, and are widely exported. Soden lozenges (German: Sodener Pastillen), condensed from the waters, are also in great demand. Bad Soden has a well-appointed Kurhaus, an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and a hospital. It also has a residential building by the architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Bad Soden has two Districts: Altenhein am Taunus and Neuenhein am Taunus.
Mayors from 1893:[2]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany. Bad Soden is twinned with:[3]
Rueil-Malmaison, France (1975)
Kitzbühel, Austria (1984)
Františkovy Lázně, Czech Republic (1992)
Yōrō, Japan (2004)
Franklin, United States (2016)In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, the Scherbatskys retire to Bad Soden to cure Kitty's illness.
In Ivan Turgenev's "Spring Torrents," Dimitry Sanin takes a trip with his future lover, Gemma, and her current fiancé to Soden, "a small town about half an hour's distance from Frankfurt".
Featured heavily in Part 3 of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.