Bad Homburg

This past Thursday, Ryan (the other American exchange student) and I hopped the train to the other side of the valley to Bad Homburg and the Auslanderamt (the place where foreigners go to register). When we finished, we took a walk through the town. Bad Homburg is a little bit bigger than Oberursel and has, per capita, the highest concentration of millionaires in Germany. They still benefit, apparently, from the spas and baths frequented by the Kaiser over 100 years ago. We poked our heads into two churches, Sankt Marien (Saint Mary's), a Catholic church, and the Evangelische Erlöserkirche (Evangelical Church of the Redeemer).

Sankt Marien. I loved the way the shadows played on the wall of this side chapel. It was incredibly peaceful.


Evangelische Erlöserkirche. Regrettably, I didn't get any good shots of the outside, as it was raining. But the inside of this church was absolutely stunning. Millions of tiny tiles formed mosaic on every vertical surface and the ceiling in this Basilica-style house of worship. The light on the golden tiles was transfixing. It would likely be difficult to concentrate on the worship service here - it was almost sensory overload. Thanks, Kaiser!