Hello my friends, here a new drawing. The motif was made in Bad Homburg. Bad Homburg is a city from the turn of the century. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany, on the southern slope of the Taunus, bordering among others Frankfurt am Main and Oberursel. The towns formal name is Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (translated as Bad Homburg in front of the height) to distinguish it from other places of the same name, abbreviated as Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe. The town is best known for its medically used mineral waters and spa (hence the prefix Bad, bath), and for its casino. Today, Bad Homburg is again one of the wealthiest towns in Germany, in part thanks to its vicinity near Frankfurt, as many of the directors and employees of the Frankfurt banks live in Bad Homburg. (The Hochtaunuskreis and the Landkreis Starnberg regularly compete for the title of the wealthiest district in Germany.) Spa town and imperial residence. With the coming of the spa industry in the mid-19th century, which profited greatly from the casino built in town, the town changed into an internationally famous spa town. Bad Homburg was particularly favoured by Russian nobility for its baths. The spa industry began with the discovery of the Elisabethenbrunnen (Brunnen is German for well) in 1834 (although the designation Bad was not conferred until 1912). The first spa building and the first casino in Homburg were built in 1841–1842 by the brothers François (1806–1877) and Louis Blanc (1806–1852), who later took over the Casino in Monte Carlo, which is why the Homburg Casino is sometimes called the Mother of Monte Carlo. In 1860, the town was connected with Frankfurt by a railway line, the Homburger Bahn. In 1888, Bad Homburg became known throughout the German Empire because Kaiser Wilhelm II declared Bad Homburgs Schloss an Imperial summer residence, and later financed the building of the Church of the Redeemer (Erlöserkirche) close by. His mother, too, Empress Friedrich, the old emperors widow — and Queen Victorias eldest daughter — lived there for several years. Edward VII was also often a guest. It was he who introduced the Homburg hat and permanent turn-up trousers. He also underwent fasting cures at Homburg 32 times. The Bad Homburger Golf Club 1899 e.V. in the Röderweisen in Dornholzhausen — nowadays part of Bad Homburg — is Germanys oldest golf club. It had its beginnings in the Bad Homburg Spa Park (Kurpark), where the old clubhouse and even playable parts of the old golf course may still be found. Not far away stands the Russian Chapel — actually more properly called All Hallows Church — an Eastern Orthodox church whose first stone was laid in the Russian Imperial couples presence on 16 October 1896, although they did not attend when it was consecrated almost three years later. King Chulalongkorn of Siam (Thailand) sent a Thai garden pavilion in gratitude for a successful cure. It was erected in 1914. Horex was a well known German motorcycle brand of the Horex – Fahrzeugbau AG, founded in 1923 in Bad Homburg by Fritz Kleemann.
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