Lahntal, Bad Ems

Views of the Rhineland-Palatinate health resort. Barnack filmed the spa garden and the left bank development with water tower and the legendary hotel Balmoral, where Richard Wagner resided. In the background you can see the Kaiserbrücke, on the right the Kurhaus. Spa guests drink from the springs. The film was probably shot before the outbreak of World War I (August 1914), likely in the early summ…