Capital of Hesse, central Germany, on the Rhine River, at the southern foot of the Taunus Mountains. The city, an industrial centre and a market for Rhine wines, is one of the most famous spas of Europe.
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Manufactures include metal goods, concrete products, and printed materials. There are also motion picture and television studios and publishing houses.
Wiesbaden was founded as a
Celtic settlement in the 3rd century B.C. In the 1st and 2d centuries A.D. it was a popular Roman spa known as
Aquae Mattiacorum; there are remains of the
Roman water conduits and walls.
It later became a free imperial city and passed to the county of
Nassau in 1281. In 1806 the city was made the capital of
Nassau and with it passed to Prussia in 1866. After World War I,
Wiesbaden was the seat (1918â29) of the Allied Rhineland Commission. Noteworthy buildings in the city include the castle, the
Kurhaus, and the
State Theatre of Hesse
