Healing water The water that has made its way to us from great depths is a pleasant 32°C. And it has something special in its luggage - healing elements that are released from the rocks it flows past. Ancient marine deposits that have formed in the Rhenish Slate Mountains provide the water with a lot of sodium sulphate, which makes the spring here in Bad Bertrich the only Glauber's salt thermal spring in Germany. The healing water has legendary healing powers, especially for metabolic disorders.
And the ancient Romans already knew this, who built a magnificent bathing building with a columned temple here in Bertriacum around 2,000 years ago. The fact that Bad Bertrich is surrounded by seven extinct volcanoes can be seen a few hundred meters outside the town center. The so-called cheese grotto in a side valley of the Üßbach stream is a geological rarity. Weathering has given the basalt columns a special shape. The old volcanic rock now resembles a row of stacked cheese wheels.
Tip:
Simply follow the signposted Geo- Route Bad Bertrich and let yourself be guided along the approximately ten-kilometre hiking trail to the geological features of the town. More information is available at the tourist information office just 50 meters from here.
