Thermalbad Zurzach
A Swiss thermal bath on the Rhine, fed by 40°C water found in 1955 while prospecting for oil.
Photo: Werner Friedli / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Source temperature
- 40°C
- Bathing temperature
- 36°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1958
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
Bad Zurzach was a medieval market and pilgrimage town when a borehole struck hot mineral water in the mid-1950s; the bath opened shortly afterwards and turned the village into one of Switzerland's principal spa resorts. The complex now runs a broad set of indoor and outdoor mineral pools with a sauna village alongside.
Balnevia view
Why visit
It is an easy, civilised Swiss bathing day: warm mineral pools, the Rhine and the German border a walk away, and a well-kept medieval centre around the Verena minster.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Zurzach thermal well
- Mineralisation
- Sodium-chloride mineral water
- Character
- Struck in 1955 during oil prospecting, from roughly 430 m below the Rhine valley.
Location
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