Therme Bad Pyrmont

Therme Bad Pyrmont is one of Germany's most historically distinguished spa towns, set in the rolling Weser Uplands of Lower Saxony where the famous Brodelbrunnen carbonated spring has gushed from the earth for centuries and attracted an astonishing parade of illustrious visitors including Peter the Great of Russia, who came in 1697 with an enormous entourage and famously demanded the local beer be mixed with the mineral water, and the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who analyzed the spring's chemistry in one of Europe's earliest scientific investigations of mineral water composition. The town's magnificent baroque Kuranlage, designed by French landscape architects in the early 18th century at the commission of the Count of Pyrmont, remains one of Germany's finest preserved spa landscapes of the enlightenment era. The powerful carbonic acid iron mineral springs here continue to draw visitors within a long thermal tradition in a setting of rare historical and architectural elegance.