A domed neoclassical spa house with long colonnades, and an English landscape park behind it.
What Kurviertel looks like
The is a neoclassical spa house with Art Nouveau motifs, built as two equal wings joined by a foyer under a dome 21 metres high. The front is pale stone, with a columned portico at its centre.
The in front of it is an open green with a fountain, lying between the on the south and the Kurhaus colonnade on the north. At 129 metres, that colonnade is the longest columned hall in Europe.
Behind the Kurhaus, the is an English landscape garden of about 75,000 square metres. Its pond has a fountain about six metres high, and a concert shell stands between the Kurhaus and the water.
runs about 900 metres from the Kureck, where it reaches onto , a park with a large pond. The boulevard is about 30 metres wide, with upmarket shops and arcades on its east side and a quieter west side of parkland and some older buildings.
The stands on the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Frankfurter Straße, a villa built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. A café occupies its upper floor.
Shot in Kurviertel
Tatort has been filmed in and at the Kurhaus since 2010. The 2014 episode Im Schmerz geboren ends in a shootout in front of the building. The 1978 Buddenbrooks adaptation, a series by Hessischer Rundfunk, shot parts of it at the Villa Clementine.
Tatort, Im Schmerz geboren, 2014
Kurhaus Wiesbaden
The final shootout of the 2014 Tatort episode Im Schmerz geboren takes place in front of the Kurhaus. The series has filmed in and at the building since 2010. Street View
What Kurviertel can double for
Kurgarten in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg
The Kurhaus in Baden-Baden is a classicist spa house by Friedrich Weinbrenner, built from 1821 to 1823 with a central block behind eight Corinthian columns and a casino in one wing, as in Wiesbaden. The casino wing was extended in 1853 and 1854. Its rooms follow French palace styles, which an interior shot would give away. Keep frames on the central portico and the lawn, because the shop colonnades of 1864 and the concert shell of the 1910s would date a shot later than the period. Try searching classicist spa house now.
Kurpark in Bad Homburg, Hesse
The Kurpark in Bad Homburg is a spa park whose swan pond has a fountain at its west end. A chestnut-lined avenue runs through the fountain area in the east of the park, with several fountains dating from the 1910s. The casino stands in the same part of the park, but the spa house on its edge is a postmodern building from the early 1980s, so only the park suits the comparison. Keep frames on the pond and the fountain avenue, because a modern spa house on the edge would give the park away in a wide shot. Try searching spa park pond fountain now.
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