Bad Soden is a residential town for commuters working in Frankfurt am Main and other surrounding cities.

Bad Soden has a well-appointed Kurhaus, an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and a hospital.

Mayors from 1893:[3] Bad Soden is twinned with:[4] In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, the Scherbatskys retire to Bad Soden to cure Kitty's illness.

In Ivan Turgenev's "Spring Torrents," Dimitry Sanin takes a trip with his future lover, Gemma, and her current fiancé to Soden, "a small town about half an hour's distance from Frankfurt".

Featured heavily in Part 3 of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.