Postcard Bad Nauheim - Trinkkuranlagen, sent 6 June 1927, Villa Via Nova Valkenburg

Postcard with a bird's-eye view of the Trinkkuranlagen in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, Hesse — the complex of drinking cure facilities with colonnade, domed buildings and a church spire in the background. The card is published by Conrad Jacobi in Leipzig and was sent on 6 June 1927 from Bad Nauheim to Mrs G. Voss-Ketz, Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg, South Holland. The reverse bears a Deutsches Reich 15 Pfennig stamp and the Bad Nauheim 6.6.27 postmark. The written reverse contains a densely handwritten message in German about the stay at the spa.

Bad Nauheim was in the 1920s one of the most visited spa towns in Europe, attracting a large international public of prosperous visitors seeking treatment for heart and nervous conditions. The Trinkkuranlagen — the complex where spa guests drank the mineral water as part of their cure — was the social heart of the resort, a place for walking, meeting and corresponding. The dense handwritten message on the reverse is a testament to that culture of correspondence: from the spa, one wrote faithfully home.