Bad Pyrmont

Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen_Pyrmont.jpg
lat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 59 |lat_sec = 12
lon_deg = 09 |lon_min = 15 |lon_sec = 49
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Hameln-Pyrmont
Höhe =
Fläche = 61.96
Einwohner = 21532
Stand = 2005-06-30
PLZ = 31812
Vorwahl = 05281
Kfz = HM
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 2 52 003
Gliederung = 9 subdivisions
Straße = Rathausstraße 1
Website = [http://www.stadt-badpyrmont.de/ www.stadt-badpyrmont.de]
Bürgermeister = Elke Christina Roeder
Partei = parteilos

Bad Pyrmont is a city in the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont, in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany, with a population of 22,000 (2003). It is located on the River Emmer, about 10 km west of the Weser, and a popular spa resort that gained its reputation as a fashionable place for princely vacations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its large park is among the most spectacular in Germany, with a renowned outdoor palm garden. The baroque castle (1706-1710), part of an impressive complex of fortifications from the 16th century, today houses the museum. Unique in Europe is the "vapor cave", where therapeutic carbon dioxide vapors emerge from the earth. The town is also the center of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Germany. Bad Pyrmonter mineralwasser, popular throughout northern Germany, is bottled in Bad Pyrmont.

Country Clubs

Bad Pyrmont is a town with many country clubs and clinics. It has lots of spare time activities for old people, and local people commonly describe Bad Pyrmont as "one big old peoples home".

Hospitals

Bad Pyrmont is well know for its [http://www.bathildis.de/ Bathildis Hospital] - The Bathildis Clinic. The clinic is specialised for diseases related to the backbone and nerves, people from all over Germany come to get treatments within the relatively small clinic because of the success of its doctors, and because of the historic bath town infrastructure and comforts, especially for old people.

History

Formerly called Pyrmont, it was the seat of a small county during much of the Middle Ages. In 1625 the county became part of the much larger county of Waldeck through inheritance. In January 1712 the count of Waldeck and Pyrmont was elevated to hereditary prince by Emperor Charles VI. For a brief period, from 1805 to 1812, Pyrmont was again a separate principality as a result of inheritance and partition after the death of the previous prince, but the two parts were united again in 1812. The principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont retained its status after the Congress of Vienna of 1815 and became a member of the German Confederation. From 1868 onward, it was administered by Prussia, but retained its nominal sovereignty. In 1871 it became a constituent state of the new German Empire. At the end of World War I, the prince abdicated and Waldeck-Pyrmont became a free state within the Weimar Republic. On 30 November 1921, following a local plebiscite, the city and district of Pyrmont were detached and incorporated into the Prussian Province of Hanover.

Famous citizens

Max Born, Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner and grandfather of Olivia Newton-John

Famous visitors

* Adalbert von Chamisso, poet
* Adolph Freiherr Knigge, author
* Albert Lortzing, composer
* August Friedrich von Kotzebue, dramatist
* August Prince of Sachsen-Gotha, a friend of Herder and Goethe
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Horneffer/ August Horneffer (German)] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Horneffer/ Ernst Horneffer (German)] , philosophers
* Benjamin Franklin, statesman and polymath
* Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his brother Ernst
* Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
* Christian Graf von Haugwitz, Prussian Secretary of State
* Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, Statesman and Minister
* Christian and Friedrich Leopold Earl zu Stolberg, poet-brothers
* Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, author
* Christoph Friedrich Wedekind, poet
* Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, physician
* Eugen Diederichs, publisher
* Felix von Luckner, lieutenant commander
* Ferdinand Duke of Braunschweig (Brunswick)
* Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück
* Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great
* Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien, Prussian General of the wars of liberation (Napoleon)
* Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet
* Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf, Prussian General Field Marshal
* Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
* Frederick III, German Emperor
* Friedrich Justin Bertuch, author
* Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia
* Friedrich von Matthisson, lyrical poet
* Fritz Muliar, actor
* Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstadt, General Field Marshal
* Gottfried August Bürger, lyric poet and poet of ballads
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, poet
* Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
* Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann, theater-director
* Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of the Reich
* Heinrich Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
* Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman
* Heinrich Lachmann, physician
* Heinrich von Stephan, General-Postmaster
* Jens Baggesen, Danish and German poet
* Joachim Heinrich Campe, educationalist, author, publisher
* Johann Gottfried Herder, poet
* Johann Heinrich Tischbein, painter at the court of Cassel
* Johann Heinrich Voß, poet, translator of Homer
* Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, painter ("Goethe in the Campagna")
* Johann Rudolf von Bischoffswerder, Prussian Secretary
* Johann Stephan Pütter
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Goethes' patron
* Karl August Prince of Hardenberg, Prussian Secretary of State
* Karl August Tittmann
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, philosopher
* Karl Devrient, famous actor of the 18th century, nephew of Ludwig Devrient
* Karl Philipp Moritz, author, poet
* Leopold II, Prince of Lippe
* Louis Spohr, composer
* Ludwig Keller, author
* Matthias Claudius, poet
* Otumfou Nana Opoku Ware II, King of Asante/Ghana
* Prince Paul of Württemberg
* Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homoeopathy
* Thomas Dehler, Federal Minister, Vice-president of the Federal Assembly
* William I, German Emperor
* William IV of the United Kingdom and Hannover

External links

* http://www.bad-pyrmont.de/
* [http://www.museum-pyrmont.de/ Museum in the Castle (German)]
* [http://www.staatsbad-pyrmont.de/ Staatsbad Bad Pyrmont (German)]
* [http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/fuerstentum_waldeck.htm Principality of Waldeck (German)]
* [http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Waldeck/index.htm Waldeck Free State (German)]
* [http://www.hufeland-therme.de Hufelandtherme (German)]
* [http://www.humboldt-gymnasium.de Humboldt Gymnasium (German)]

Multimedia

* [http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/1669-11484/ CBC Archives] CBC Radio reports on surrender of the city April 22 1945.