From the salt works to the spa garden Spa Park and Thermal Brine Bath Bad Münster am Stein "I stood at the great water wheel/ immersed in deep rest/ receiving the cool drops of water/ and watched the swing. The rocks were reaching for the sky, I knew it far and near, but I enjoyed it so much that I only looked at the wheel", was the enthusiastic poem by Gustav Pfarrius, the "Singer of the Nahe Valley", in his collection of songs "Nahetal in Liedern" (Nahe Valley in Songs) in 1838. The scenery he describes in the poem Salinental can also be experienced in the Bad Münster am Stein spa park, which owes its origins to the production of salt.A water wheel still turns behind the Kurmittelhaus on the banks of the river Nahe. On the other side of the river rises the Rheingrafenstein. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also captured this landscape situation in a sketch and inspired the painter William Turner. The wheels of the waterwheels were used to transport the brine to the graduation works with water power. These sprinkling systems flanked the spa park and the Kurmittelhaus like the wings of a castle complex and bathed it in a fresh salt mist. What is now a park was covered extensively with imposing thorn walls. The saltworks themselves were destroyed in 1945. A graduation house with a length of 150 metres is still preserved and here guests walk from the former spa house (1875), which is now used as a restaurant and also has a terrace with a concert shell, along the graduation house to the historic spa centre. The Nahe River nestles around the spa park. Even in hot weather, the temperature here is pleasant. A water walk provides additional refreshment. The Rheingrafenspring is located in the Kurmittelhaus with its fountain hall. The mineral water supplies the graduation works as well as the thermal brine open-air bath, which we reach on the path along the river bank to the Nahe weir. The bathers in the outdoor pool enjoy a wonderful panoramic view and bathing fun in fresh and salt water. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
