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The thermal bath at Bad Zurzach on the Rhine

Bad Zurzach/Switzerland

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)

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.

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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.

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.

Practical information

Location

Bad Zurzach, Switzerland47.5883, 8.2900View on Balnevia map

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