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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… middling orders, poor peasants and often Jews were shunted aside in Pyrmont (as in other spas), excluded from the finer spaces and permitted to use facilities such as the springs only during less agreeable hours to avoid encounters with more … by spa wardens ( Brunnenpolizei ), and mainly concerned with maintaining the apparent ‘respectability’ of social spaces, where unwritten rules set the tone of behaviour. These were generally clear enough when it came to the social exclusion of the visibly poor from most public spaces, yet the boundaries were unclear when it came to well-dressed members of the bourgeoisie, who might well doubt …
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