Thermes d'Amnéville-les-Thermes
- Location
- Amnéville, France
- Water type
- iron-rich, sodium chloride, calcium-rich
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
The Amnéville Thermal Pole emerged in 1986 from an unlikely industrial conversion: on this former Lorraine mining site, the Wendel family had already stumbled upon a naturally hot mineral spring in 1909 while prospecting for coal, at a spot called Le Pérotin. That first spring, fitted out by German forces during the First World War as a rest area for soldiers, eventually ran dry in the early 1970s.
The site's revival came with the discovery of the Saint-Éloy spring: the Centre Thermal Saint-Éloy opened in 1986 in the Bois de Coulange woods. The chloride-rich, strongly mineralised water flows naturally hot, high in sodium, calcium, magnesium and sulphur, and today supports two focus areas, rheumatology and respiratory wellness.