Bad Nauheim Celebrities

Bad Nauheim is the second largest city of the Wetterau district. The town attracts since quite some time a lot of guests. It also has been visited by many celebrities from culture politics and sports. This cache introduces you to a few famous guests and inhabitants of this spa town.

Above shown coordinates are just an indication for the position of the cache. To get the exact position you need to find the answers to the questions below. You may find some information about Bad Nauheim, its guests and inhabitants on the homepage of the town or in Wikipedia. However, to solve the quiz it is sometimes necessary to do further research.

All celebrities mentioned below have a relationship to Bad Nauheim. The questions do not ask for the relationship, but should encourage you to engage with them.

In case the answer is a letter, please transform it into figures as shown in the examples (a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5, f=6, g=7, h=8, ...).

One questions asks you to identify a month. Please transform the month into a figure as shown in the examples (January=1, February=2, march=3, April=4, May=5, June=6, …).

Enjoy this quiz. The questions are as followed:

A.) Hans Albers

Hans Albers visited Bad Nauheim in 1925. In one of his most famous songs he described the Reeperbahn at night. The Reeperbahn is the red light district of Hamburg. Until what time promised the singer to abide to his liason?

B.) Erich Kästner

Between 1920 and 1933 Erich Kästner visited Bad Nauheim several times In 1929 he published the children book “Emil and the Detectives”. In this book the grade school child named Emil Tischbein gets tricked by a fellow passenger on a train. What is the name of the hotel in which the thief residents (Please care that the film with the same title has a different story board!)? For the solution you need the second latter of the name.

C.) Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck served as the first Chancellor of the German Empire formed in 1871. He visited Bad Nauheim in the time he was Prussia’s ambassador to the Russian Empire. The successful spa helped to cure his hurting legs. In what month was Otto von Bismarck promoted as Prussia’s ambassador to the Russian Empire from Frankfurt to Sankt Petersburg?

D.) Elvis Aron Presley
From 1958 to 1960 Elvis Presley was posted as US Army private in the Friedberg barracks. At this time the King of Rock 'n' Roll stood in Bad Nauheim. There he also meet his big love, the 14 year old Priscilla Beaulieu. They married in 1967. How many songs of Elvis were on #1 position in the German charts?

E.) Bruno Kisch
The Cardiologist Bruno Kisch co-founded in 1927 the Germany Cardic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herz- und Kreislaufforschung) headquartered in Bad Nauheim. He visited Bad Nauheim regularly in the 1960s. In 1966 he suffered pneumonia and died. Kisch also founded the American College of Cardiology in the USA. In what year became Kisch president of the ACC?

F.) Michael und Ralf Schumacher
The Schumacher brothers came several times to Bad Nauheim for medical treatment. To solve the cache you need to find the year in which both Schumachers together scored the most points in the Formula One Championships?

G.) Albert Einstein
The physicist Albert Einstein visited Bad Nauheim in 1920. He participated in the 86. Versammlung der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte – a convention of natural scientists and medical professionals. The attendance list contained many other important scientists and Nobel prize laureates. Einstein won the Nobel prize one year after the convention for “his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”. There was one particular year in which Albert Einstein gathered a big part of his scientific achievements of Albert Einstein. In this year Einstein published several highly ranked publications. How is this year named in relation to Albert Einstein? The name (latin!) consists of 2 pieces and to answer correctly you need the 1st letter of the second word.

H.) Elisabeth Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
Aged 16 Elisabeth Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie of Bavaria married Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Sissi was ranked among the most attractive women of that period. She was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist in Geneva. She was in Bad Nauheim in summer 1898. How many healthy children did Sissi bear?

I.) Heinrich Siesmayer
Heinrich Siesmayer, who is famous for the creation of the Frankfurt Palmengarten, designed in the 1850s the Bad Nauheim spa gardens. For his work he was appointed as honory citizen of Bad Nauheim. What name had his father? The 1st lester of the first name is the answer for this question.

J.) Rainer Philipp
Bad Nauheim born Rainer Philipp was 1976 member of the German ice hockey team that surprisingly won the bronze medal at the Olympic winter ames in Innsbruck. At that time he was team member of VfL Bad Nauheim. At that time Bad Nauheim was among the leading ice hockey teams in Germany. What is Rainer Philipp’s nick name? Note the first letter.

K.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Between 1891 and 1896 the later president of the USA came several times to Bad Nauheim joining his parents on their cure. In the beginning Roosevelt visited the local elementary school for 6 weeks. What day was Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as 32nd President of the USA? Please not the digit of the day. If the date qould be 28 October, 2009 the result would be 28!

L.) Caroline Link
On 2 June, 1964 Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim. In 2003 the film "Nirgendwo in Afrika" ("Nowhere in Africa") directed by her received the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. In what African country was this movie shot? To solve you need the 3rd letter of the country’s name.


The exact position of the cache is calculated as followed:

N 50 . 22 . E-(B*G*J)-(2*D*B*A)+C

E 008 . 44 . (L*(I-6)*H*K)-F+D-(A*J)+C+D


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