Now the photos from my penultimate visit to a spa town are back from the lab…
Following my last brief travelogue about Bad Nenndorf, here are a few photos from Bad Driburg. Of course, the changed circumstances mentioned in the last post also apply in Bad Driburg, but here some of the effects can be observed more directly. One of the most striking is certainly this building, which is quite prominently visible from Brunnenstraße:
This is the former Hotel Neuhaus at Steinbergstieg 18, which closed in 2009. In 2018, an investor expressed interest, but so far, nothing has changed regarding its condition.
Another sign of times past is the condition of Café Heyse, which closed for good in 2022. On the first floor, an impressive collection of the now-disused seating can be seen.
The fact that Bad Driburg had actually anticipated growth in the late 1970s is evident in the development around “Am Hellweg”: a largely empty, parallel pedestrian zone that, with its combination of commercial spaces and residential units, looks like something straight out of a textbook on urban planning from that era.
All the photographs were taken with a Canon AE-1 using Agfa APX-100 film.