Baden-Baden
a town in the republic of Baden. Pop. about 25,000. It is chiefly celebrated for its medicinal springs, which were known in the time of the Romans. Its gaming tables, the most renowned in Europe, were closed with the rest of the licensed German gaming houses in 1872. The mineral springs consist of thermal saline waters. They contain chloride of sodium, with sulphate of lime, carbonate of iron, and carbonic acid, and a small quantity of lithia, and are used chiefly as hot baths.
BADEN-BEI-WIEN (bäd'en-bi-vēn'), a frequented watering place of Lower Austria, about 15 miles S. S. W. of Vienna. It was the Aquæ Pannoniæ, or Cethiæ of the Romans, and is still famous for its warm mineral springs. Near by is the former royal hunting lodge, Meierling, where Crown Prince Rudolf met a tragic end in 1889. Pop. about 20,000.