[2] Upper Rhine Spa Museum

Description

Museum about the history of spa bathing and social life in the spa town of the 19th century.

The history of spa bathing 

The journey through the unique spa museum in South Germany leads through different centuries of spa bathing. Images and graphics provide you with impressions of e.g. the 16th century´s concept of healing through hours of sitting in the spa water, eating, drinking, making music, and other pleasures in the bath for both genders.

Social life in the 19th century spa town

Valuable bathing glasses, postcards, hotel brochures, guest lists, and bathing regulations of that time remind us of the importance of social and economic life in the spa towns of the 19th century. Old engravings of spa towns are also shown, where conviviality, amusement, and a change from everyday home life were offered at the time.

The history of Bad Bellingen

The restored tub, into which the first Bellingen thermal water flowed in November 1956 and which marked the transformation of the vineyard village into a spa town, is at the heart of the Upper Rhine Spa Museum. Old photographs, postcards, newspaper excerpts and documents mark the most important stages of the young Bellingen bathing history to the health and spa town of Bad Bellingen. At the same time, a visit to the stepped gable house built around 1600 leads through the history of Bad Bellingen. In six sections, aspects of the four places that have formed the municipality of Bad Bellingen since 1975 are presented. The development of the villages of Bamlach, Bellingen, Hertingen, and Rheinweiler varied both similar and contrasting. This becomes particularly clear in the church room, where a boundary stone marks the confessional border between the three Catholic villages and the Protestant community of Hertingen.

Most of the panels are designed to be bilingual, in German and French.