Spring impressions from Bad Soden in the Main-Taunus-Kreis,Hessen,Germany.

Bad Soden is a little town and spa in Hessen,Germany.It had a population of 22563.In Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina,the Scherbatskys retire to Bad Soden to cure Kittys illness. Many well known people,who would go to spa in Soden;like the publicist and columnist Ludwig Börne,Hoffmann von Fallersleben,poet of the Deutschlandlied (Germanys national anthem),and the great composers Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy and Peter Tchaikovsky,and the Russian writters Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoi.