Wiesbaden
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Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
a city in the Federal Republic of Germany on the right bank of the Rhine, in Hessen Land. Population, 259,000 (1969). Wiesbaden is a transportation center, and it has a river port, Schierstein, with a freight turnover of more than 2 million tons a year. Industry is located mainly in the south, in the vicinity of Biebrich and Kastel, and it includes chemical, pharmaceutical, and machine-building enterprises (including electrical engineering equipment, precision mechanics products, and optical products), champagne production, and printing. The federal statistical administration, a library, and a main state archive are located in Wiesbaden.
The city is a well-known balneological and climatological health resort located at the foot of the Taunus Mountains at an altitude of 117 m. The climate is mild, warm (average annual temperature, 9.3° C), and moderately humid. The summer is warm (average July temperature, 19.5° C) and the winter mild (average January temperature, 0.2° C). The precipitation is about 700 mm a year. Therapy includes hot mineral springs (temperature about 66° C) containing chloride, sodium, and calcium and used for baths, inhalation, and drinking. Mud therapy and grape cure are also given. Wies-baden provides therapy for patients with diseases of the joints, peripheral nervous system, and digestive organs, as well as metabolic disorders and catarrhs of the upper respiratory tract. Wiesbaden has a balneological institute, sanatoriums, bathing establishments with swimming pools and divisions for mud therapy, inhalation rooms, hydropathic and electric therapy clinics, and boarding houses.