Bad Pyrmont is a town in the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont, in Lower Saxony, Germany, with a population close to 19,000. It is located on the River Emmer. Bad Pyrmont is a popular spa resort that gained its reputation as a fashionable place for princely vacations in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Bad Pyrmont — a small, cozy, resort town with a great history. I coudn’t even imagine that tsar Peter the Great visited this resort with his entourage. The purpose of his trip was very prosaic: healing water. During his stay in Bad Pyrmont, he wrote several notebooks in which he noted the peculiarities of the life of local residents, bought sculptures, bells, clocks, seeds and plants (their descendants grow now in the famous gardens and parks of St. Petersburg).
In the Museum in the castle of Bad Pyrmont is a little-known portrait of Peter the Great, which he personally presented to the ruler of that time. This portrait is made by the German artist Tannauer, who lived at that time in St. Petersburg. The Museum has also (recently discovered) a portrait of Catherine the Great.
Today Bad Pyrmont is famous resort with modern medicine, healing water and mud. Like no other resort is famous Bad Pyurmont picturesque and clean nature, the lack of noise of highways and airports, a complex of unique natural remedies –mud, mineral water and carbon dioxide. As well as modern medical know-how and first-class equipment.
Bad Pyurmont is famous not only for its healing springs, but also for its charming intellectual atmosphere.
