Spa town Baden
Two thousand years of healing. I've been meaning to do a series on Baden, and this seems like a good time. Baden is about 10 km (6 miles) from Villigen and 24 km from Zürich. The name Baden (to bathe) refers to the mineral-rich thermal springs there, springs that have been popular dating back to the Romans who called the place Aquae Helveticae. The 47° Celsius (116° F) waters feed 18 springs (total of 1 million liters a day) around which there are now hotels and sanatoria. In fact, the building in yesterday's cat ladder post is the Hotel Limmathof. People such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse came to Baden for the waters. Hesse (who lived in the Italian-speaking Canton Ticino) was a regular, making annual visits for almost 30 years.
Wikipedia: Baden
The public thermal baths and swimming pool website in German: ThermalBaden
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4 comments:
I've gone to thermal baths in New Mexico and it is heavenly. I like the simplicity of the plaque in your photo.
Do you drink the waters as well as bathe in them?
There are some places in Poland and Czech Republic that have curative waters.
Kate and Isabella: I haven't been to the baths, so I can't say what they're like. As for trying to drink it, there's a lot of sulphur in it and I would think it would be pretty unpleasant to take in. Immersion in the water is supposed to be good for rheumatism, general aches and pains and so on. There's also a physical therapy institute associated with the ThermalBaden.
They are a lot of thermal houses in France for different treatments.
I visited one of them not far away from here. I have my own spa in my bathtub my husband gave me. it is a hole mattress and a small motor pump air out and I have a lot bubbles very good for my old bones !
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