Bad Schwalbach is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
A residential area in Bad Schwalbach
Bad Schwalbach – Extract from Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian the Younger, 1655
Bad Langenschwalbach about 1900
Bad Schwalbach about 1832 in an engraving after Tombleson
Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is part of the Darmstadt region; its main administrative seat is Bad Schwalbach. Outposted sections of the local administration are located in Idstein and Rüdesheim am Rhein.
Highest point of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis:629,3 m high mountain Windhain above Waldems-Wüstems' roofs; on the right in the back Großer Feldberg is visible, the highest mountain of the entire Taunus mountain range.