Wiesbaden

Germany

Wiesbaden, the capital of the German state of Hesse, is one of Europe's oldest spa towns; the Romans knew its thermal springs as Aquae Mattiacorum, and in 1806 it became the capital of the Duchy of Nassau. Abraham Geiger, later a leading figure of Reform Judaism, served as the city's rabbi in the 1830s and edited a journal of Jewish scholarship there. Wiesbaden was also the birthplace, in 1878, of Anton Gueth, who as Nyanatiloka became one of the first Europeans ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk, in Burma in 1904, and a noted translator of Pali texts. The city's main synagogue was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938.

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