Postcard Bad Nauheim - Die drei Sprudel, sent 1927, spa town Hesse

Sent postcard with a sepia photograph of "Die drei Sprudel" in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, Hesse, showing the garden layout around the three mineral water springs, the fountains and the surrounding colonnade. The card was sent on 31 May 1927 from Bad Nauheim to Mrs L. Hennen, Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg, Dutch Limburg. The reverse bears a Deutsches Reich 15 Pfennig stamp from the Immanuel Kant series and the Bad Nauheim 31.5.27 postmark.

The sender — apparently a family member taking a spa cure in Bad Nauheim — writes that he has had to interrupt the bathing treatment for a few days but hopes to resume the following morning. The front of the card is covered in additional messages from uncle August, the Roemer and Smeets families, and a kiss from Hubert. Bad Nauheim was in the 1920s a renowned European spa, particularly known for its carbonic acid baths prescribed for cardiovascular conditions. The destination Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg suggests a well-to-do Limburg household.