Bad Pyrmont is a city in Hamelin-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, with a population of 22,000 (2003). It is located along the Weser river and a popular spa resort. Its large park is among the most spectular in Germany, with a renowned outdoor palm garden. Unique in Europe is the vapor cave, where therapeutic carbon vapors emerge from the earth. The town is also the center of the Quakers in Germany. Hamelin-Pyrmont (German Hameln-Pyrmont) is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... Weser watershed The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. ... Spa is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ...

Formerly called Pyrmont, it was seat of a small county during much of the Middle Ages. In 1625 the county became part of the much larger county of Waldeck through inheritance. In January 1712 the count of Waldeck and Pyrmont was elevated to prince by Emperor Charles VI. For a brief period, 1805 to 1812, Pyrmont was a separate principality as a result of inheritance and partition after the death of the previous prince, but the two parts were united again in 1812. The principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont retained is status after the Congress of Vienna of 1815 and became a member of the German Confederation. From 1868 onward, it was administered by Prussia, but retained its nominal sovereignty. In 1871 it became a constituent state of the new German Empire. At the end of World War I, the prince abdicated and Waldeck-Pyrmont became a Free State within the Weimar Republic. On 30 November 1921, following a local plebiscite, the city and district of Pyrmont were detached and incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover. Waldeck may mean the following: the principality Waldeck-Pyrmont, see Waldeck (principality) the city Waldeck in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, see Waldeck, Hesse the small municipality Waldeck in the Saale-Holzland district, Thuringia, see Waldeck, Thuringia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... The name Charles VI is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Charles VI of France Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI of Naples This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Waldeck (or Waldeck-Pyrmont) was a sovereign principality in what is now Lower Saxony and Hesse (Germany). ... The Congress of Vienna (October 1, 1814 - June 9, 1815) was a conference between ambassadors from the major powers in Europe that was chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and held in Vienna, Austria. ... The German Confederation (German Deutscher Bund) was a loose association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire, which had been abolished in 1806. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia ( German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the Weimarer Republik). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy...