Carolinum Bad Ems
- Location
- Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Water type
- sodium chloride, bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Carolinum Bad Ems is a historic thermal bathing facility in Bad Ems, the elegant spa town on the Lahn River in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, where the famous Emser mineral spring — rich in sodium, chloride, bicarbonate, and calcium — has been prized since the Middle Ages within a long thermal tradition. The Carolinum reflects the traditional German Kur (cure) establishment model in which mineral spring bathing is combined with drinking cures and a structured program of rest and activity in the spa town environment. Bad Ems was one of the most fashionable resort destinations of the nineteenth century, visited by the Prussian royal family and European aristocracy, and the Carolinum preserves this heritage of refined thermal tradition in a historic spa setting of considerable architectural and cultural significance.