The town is approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Frankfurt am Main, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range.

During their five month internment at the Grand Hotel they published the Bad Nauheim Pudding, a locally created newspaper, until it was censored by the Germans.

They also formed what they called Badheim University, which allowed the internees education in areas such as languages, phonetics, bible study, and travelogs.

Despite its proximity to Frankfurt am Main and Hitler's command complex, Bad Nauheim was totally spared from Allied bombing.

[10] Other famous people who have stayed in the town include Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group conglomerate company (he died in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904 at the age of 82),[citation needed] Irish novelist and Catholic priest Patrick Sheehan (who holidayed at the Hotel Augusta Victoria in Bad Nauheim from 6–23 September 1904),[11] Franklin D. Roosevelt (as a boy, FDR had been taken for several extended visits to Bad Nauheim where his father underwent a water cure for his heart condition), the Saudi Arabian football team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, George S. Patton (who celebrated his sixtieth birthday in the grand ballroom of the Grand Hotel), and Albert Kesselring, a Nazi general who died there in 1960.

The internment of American journalists at the Grand Hotel in 1942 is depicted in a section of the novel The War Begins in Paris (published in 2023).