Wiesbaden
a town of Prussia, province of Hesse-Nassau; until 1866 capital of the independent duchy of Nassau; on the S. W. spurs of the Taunus Mountains, 377 feet above the sea; 6 miles N. of Mainz. It is well built, and tels. The chief buildings contains a large number of splendid hogs are the Gothic Protestant church (1853-1862), a noble edifice with five lofty towers, containing colossal marble statues of Christ and the four Evangelists; the Roman Catholic church (1844-1849), in the Romanesque style; the English church (1863-1865); the synagogue, in the Oriental style; the Schloss (1837-1840); the museum, with a picture gallery, a collection of antiquities, a natural history collection, and a library of 100,000 volumes; the Pauline palace (1842), in Moorish style; the government buildings (1842), in the Florentine palatial style; the Greek chapel, erected by the Duke of Nassau as a mausoleum for his first wife, Elizabeth Michailowna; and the Kursaal, the principal resort of vis visitors, the largest lan hall of which is 132 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 48 feet h high. Connected with the Kursaal by a long iron Trinkhalle is the Kochbrunnen, the principal of the 22 medicinal springs of Wiesbaden. Its waters have a temperature of 156° F. The second spring is that in the garden of the Adler Hotel, 147° F. Wiesbaden is one of the most frequented spas in Europe. The springs of Wiesbaden are spoken of by Pliny as the "Fontes Mattown, traces of a Roman fortress were tiaci," and on the Heidenberg, N. of the discovered in 1838, which seems to have been connected with the town by a wall, the Heidenmauer ("heathens' wall"), in the ruins of which votive tablets and inscriptions have been discovered. Pop. about 110,000. scriptio