Bad Vilbel

Bad Vilbel is a spa metropolis in Hesse, Germany, well-known for its many mineral water springs. Bad Vilbel is the biggest city in the Wetteraukreis district and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main city area with its town middle being located eight km northeast of downtown Frankfurt am Main on the banks of the river Nidda. Bad Vilbel become based in 774 but much older artefacts had been found within the vicinity. In 1848 at some point of railway works, a Roman villa turned into unearthed with a Thermae and a Mosaic. A reproduction of this mosaic is supplied in a current exhibition in the spa gardens.

The metropolis Vilbel were given the label "Bad" in 1948 for its numerous mineral springs. The fitness spa operations stopped inside the 1960s but the mineral water industry connected greater springs of the Wetterau with the aid of pipelines to the bottling plant of Hassia in Bad Vilbel. The hessian government reform fashioned 1971/seventy two Bad Vilbel, Dortelweil, Gronau and Massenheim to the new metropolis Bad Vilbel. Since 1997 amazing regions had been developed for residing and commercial enterprise, like the residential area of Dortelweil-West or the economic park Quellenpark among Bad Vilbel, Massenheim and Dortelweil.