Mogetissa-Therme
- Location
- Mogetissa, Bavaria, Germany
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Mogetissa-Therme is a German thermal spa whose name preserves the ancient Roman place name Mogetissa — a Latinization of a Celtic toponym that identified this geothermal spring settlement in antiquity, connecting this modern facility to a tradition of mineral spring bathing that Roman legionnaires and settlers established in the Germanic provinces over two thousand years ago. The sulfurous and fluoride-rich mineral composition of the waters places Mogetissa-Therme firmly within the German Heilquelle classification system, with a mineral profile that has historically attracted bathers in the tradition of German balneotherapy. The preservation of the Roman place name in this modern thermal establishment creates a rare continuity between the ancient Roman practice of thermal bathing at this specific geothermal site and its contemporary continuation, embodying in its very name the unbroken two-thousand-year tradition of mineral spring use in the German-speaking lands.