Bad Pyrmont (DE)

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Bad Pyrmont is a town in the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont, in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany, with a population close to 19,000. It is located on the River Emmer, about 10 km west of the Weser. Bad Pyrmont is a popular spa resort that gained its reputation as a fashionable place for princely vacations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The town is also the center of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Germany.

In the Second World War Bad Pyrmont was noted as a hospital town, so it was not badly damaged.

Bad Pyrmont uses postcode 31812 today.

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Allied Occupied Germany

Bad Pyrmont belonged to RPD Münster, PLZ 21a, in the British Zone of occupation.

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