Liebenstein Healing Water
Bad Liebenstein has one of the most carbonated healing springs in Germany. It is a so-called sodium-calcium-chloride-hydrogen carbonate acidulous spring. First mentioned in records in 1590, the Meiningen physician Dr Megenbach attested to the water’s “mysterious” effect as early as 1601. In 1610 the polymath Andreas Libavius (1555–1616) confirmed the water’s healing properties. His treatise “Tractatus Medicus Physicus und Historia des fürtrefflichen Casimirianischen SawerBrunnen unter Libenstein nicht fern von Schmalkalden gelegen” is regarded as one of the very first German writings on mineral springs. Today the healing water bubbles up from a depth of 165 metres. In balneotherapy, carbonated mineral baths are used above all to treat heart conditions and high blood pressure. Taken as a drinking cure, the water is also beneficial in cases of calcium and iron deficiency.
