Therme Bad Kohlgrub
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- Location
- Bad Kohlgrub, Bavaria, Germany
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Therme Bad Kohlgrub in the Ammergau Alps is one of Germany's foremost moor/peat thermal spas, where naturally forming high-moor peat (Hochmoor) accumulated over thousands of years is harvested and heated to create the dark, mineral-rich mud baths (Moorpackungen) within a tradition rooted in 19th-century Bavarian natural bathing culture. The moor waters of the Kohlgrub basin, formed by the slow decomposition of Sphagnum mosses and alpine plants over millennia, carry a unique profile of humic acids, trace minerals, and natural compounds from the surrounding Ammergau Alpine wetland ecosystem. Set between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Wieskirche pilgrimage church (UNESCO), Bad Kohlgrub's peat spa offers a profoundly elemental connection between human well-being and the ancient biochemistry of an Alpine peatland.