Thalasso Bad Heiligendamm
- Location
- Bad Heiligendamm, Germany
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 33 °C
- pH
- 7.8
Water profile
Stimulating — wakes the body and boosts circulation.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Bad Heiligendamm is Germany's oldest seawater resort, founded in 1793 on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where iodine-rich Baltic seawater has been used in thalassotherapy and seawater balneotherapy since the 18th century in the colonnaded White Town by the Sea — a row of white neoclassical villas and bath pavilions built for the Mecklenburg grand dukes that is the oldest surviving seaside resort architecture in Germany. The thalasso tradition of Bad Heiligendamm, patronized by Frederick William III of Prussia, Empress Alexandra of Russia, and Bismarck, reached a modern apotheosis when the resort hosted the G8 summit in 2007, bringing the world's leaders to the same shores where 19th-century royalty bathed in the Baltic iodine waters. The exceptionally iodine-rich waters of the Mecklenburg Bay, combined with the salubrious coastal pine forest climate and the historic neoclassical spa architecture, make Bad Heiligendamm the most historically prestigious thalasso destination in northern Germany.