Germany: Bad Ems

On 6th November I got four postcards: three from Germany and one from Canada.

One of the cards from Germany shows Bad Ems. Bad Ems is one of the most famous bathing resorts in Germany. It is located on the river Lahn in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate and reached its heyday in the 19th century, when many monarchs and other famous persons came to spend their time in Bad Ems. Then it was known as "Weltbad" (Bathing Resort of the World). Famous visitors were for example Richard Wagner, Nicholas I of Russia, Victor Hugo, Clara Schumann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In 1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia spent the summer months Bad Ems. There the French ambassador came to him to demand the waiver of the House of Hohenzollern of the Spanish throne. Otto von Bismarck was informed by an internal telegram, which he modified and reduced and which he finally released to the press. The translation of this Ems Dispatch (Emser Depesche) caused indignation in France and resulted in the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. Six years later Emperor Alexander II of Russia signed here the Ems Ukaz, which prohibited the use of the Ukrainian language. As one of the Great Spas of Europa is Bad Ems since July 2021 on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The stamp shows a residential area in Lübeck (issued 02-01-2021).

Thank You very much Marcel!