a stately home, once a hotel (the biggest Art Nouveau building in Europe) is today a clinic.
In the late 1990s, the Bad Wildungen spa park was connected by a "green bridge" � not natural but made to seem so � to the Reinhardshausen spa park, making one large park now regarded, at 50 ha, as Europe's biggest spa park.
In the Helenental foothills are found the Odershausen Waterfalls, which are well worth seeing. Furthermore, in the woods near Odershausen, near the J�gersburg ("Hunter's Castle"), stand three old dwarf beeches.
Also, the Bilstein Cliffs near Reizenhagen tempt climbers. Bad Wildungen's local mountain, the 518 m-high Homberg, affords the visitor an outstanding panoramic view.
The municipal area's highest mountain, however, is the W�stegarten (675 m above sea level), located near Bergfreiheit, one of Bad Wildungen's outlying communities. It is disputed as to whether the peak is actually in Bad Wildungen, as the latest survey suggests that it is a few metres outside town limits.
Das Paradies ("The Paradise") near Albertshausen is not simply called this; hikers will also find this unique forest towards Gellershausen and Kleinern to be something of a paradisiacal treasure.
The 167 km-long Kellerwaldsteig, awarded with the distinction of one of Germany's three finest hiking trails, begins and ends in Bad Wildungen.
In the former Hutewald (forest used for grazing) of Halloh in Albertshausen is a centuries-old beech forest.
In Bad Wildungen are two sport clubs, the VFL Bad Wildungen (VFL = Verein f�r Leibes�bungen � club for bodily exercise) and the TV Friedrichstein (TV = Turnverein � gymnastic club). Both clubs have established football and handball associations.
One Waldeck speciality is Schepperlinge, a kind of potato pancake, traditionally served in Bad Wildungen with bacon, onions and black coffee.
As is true more or less throughout northern Hesse, the so-called "Ahle Worscht" is an ever
