Fortuna Bad Frankenhausen
- Location
- Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 30 °C
- pH
- 7.3
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.
Fortuna Bad Frankenhausen is a thermal spa in Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia, a town of remarkable historical significance as the site of the Battle of Frankenhausen in May 1525, the decisive engagement of the German Peasants' War in which the revolutionary preacher Thomas Müntzer's peasant army was catastrophically defeated by the forces of the Thuringian princes, an event commemorated in the Panorama Museum — housing Werner Tübke's monumental cyclorama painting, one of the largest paintings in the world at 123 meters circumference — which stands on the Schlachtberg (Battle Hill) above the town as one of Germany's most extraordinary art monuments. The nearby Kyffhäuser Monument marks the summit of the Kyffhäuser mountain where medieval legend holds that Emperor Frederick Barbarossa sleeps within the mountain, waiting to be resurrected when Germany needs him in its darkest hour, a myth that Kaiser Wilhelm II exploited in the monument's design as a symbol of German imperial continuity. The chloride thermal spring waters of Bad Frankenhausen offer relaxation in a town of dense historical symbolism where peasant revolution, imperial myth-making, and extraordinary panoramic art create an unusually intellectually compelling backdrop for therapeutic spring bathing.