HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HOHE, a town in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, situated at the foot of the Taunus Mountains, 12 m. N. of Frankfort-on-Main, by rail. Pop. (1925) 16,287. Homburg consists of an old and a new town; the latter was founded by the landgrave of Hesse-Homburg Frederick II. (d. 1708), and came into repute as a watering-place in 1834. On a neighbouring hill stands the palace of the former landgraves, built in 1680. The White Tower is said to date from Roman times, and certainly existed under the lords of Eppstein, who held the district in the I2th century. There are eight mineral springs. The industries embrace iron founding and the manufacture of leather, sugar, biscuits and hats. The prosperity of the town is largely due to the annual influx of visitors. In the neighbourhood lies the ancient Roman castle of Saalburg.
Homburg is also the name of a town in the Saar territory of Bavaria. Pop. (1925) 10,054. It manufactures iron goods. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the castles of Karlsberg and of Hohenburg. The town came into the possession of Zwei briicken in 1755 and later into that of Bavaria.