Jáchymov Spa (Lázně Jáchymov)

The world's first radon spa, in a silver-mining valley of the Ore Mountains.

Photo: Straktur, Wikimedia Commons

Quelltemperatur: 29°C
Badetemperatur: 34°C
Baden: Innen
Gegründet: 1906
Unterkunft: Hotel vor Ort

Jáchymov built its wealth on silver and later on uranium ore. In 1906 the town opened the world's first radon spa, using water rising from the Svornost mine — the same galleries that supplied the ore for Marie Curie's research.

Balnevia-Sicht

Warum hingehen

The setting is unlike any other European spa: a narrow mining valley, early twentieth-century sanatoria, and a treatment tradition built entirely around radon water drawn from a working historic mine.

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Das Wasser

Thermalwasser

Quelle: Svornost mine radon water
Mineralisierung: Radon-bearing mineral water
Charakter: Radioactive radon water drawn from the historic Svornost silver mine, used in medical balneology since 1906.

Praktische Informationen

Treatments are medical in character and usually booked as programmes through the spa houses rather than as walk-in bathing. The Radium Palace and neighbouring houses hold the pools and treatment wings.

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