Silber-Therme Warmbad

Silber-Therme Warmbad is a thermal spa in Warmbad, a district of the town of Wolkenstein in the Erzgebirgskreis of Saxony, Germany, whose status as a state-recognized Heilbad has been maintained for over one hundred years, making it one of Saxony's most venerable spa traditions embedded in the silver-mining cultural landscape of the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) where the medieval and early modern silver rush that built the great Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces of Saxony also created the hydrothermal conditions that produced the warm mineral spring waters of Warmbad. The Erzgebirge — Ore Mountains — have been a center of mineral wealth and craftsmanship since the twelfth century, and the name Warmbad itself — 'warm bath' — testifies to the ancient recognition of the thermal spring that has given this mountain settlement its identity. The Silber-Therme, evoking the silver mining heritage of the Erzgebirge in its name, draws on the warm mineral spring tradition of one of Germany's most culturally distinctive mountain regions.