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2 unusual facts about Bad Ems


John Naish

Naish's health failed in his forties: he travelled to the Continent in hope of a cure, but died at the German spa town of Bad Ems on 17 August 1890 and was buried there.

La permission de dix heures

Offenbach's opéra comique premiered in Bad Ems and had a Paris production but did not enter the repertoire.


La Païva

Around 1840 she became the mistress of Henri Herz (1803-1888), a pianist, composer, and piano manufacturer, whom she met at Bad Ems, a fashionable spa town in Germany.

Lahnstein

It is regarded as the oldest galleried church on the Rhine and was the model for the churches of the so-called Lahn Group, which included the parish churches of Moselweiß and Güls (both villages are now boroughs of Koblenz), Ems, Dietkirchen, and Morsbach in the Siegerland.

Sporkenburg

The ruins of the spur castle lie within the parish of the village of Eitelborn in the Westerwald hills above the L 329 between Bad Ems and Arzbach.


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