Saturday, 31.07.2004 - Badenweiler, Germany

Neither the first years nor the antique name of Badenweiler are known today.

From the year AD 73 also the region right of the Rhine was added to the roman empire. Sometime after that smaller bath buildings were presumably built near the warm springs in Badenweiler. Other civilian buildings were presumably besides them.

In the first half of the 2nd century AD was built a luxurious cure thermal spring. It was symmetrical and as a double thermal spring - presumably for the sex separation - arranged. Every part had a dressing room and a pool.

This building was altered at least seven times. In the final stage the dressing rooms were altered also into pools. For that new dressing rooms with a courtyard were added at both sides of the thermal springs. In the south was built a coldwater basin and a laconium for each part of the thermal springs. In front of this that were further rooms of unknown use.

Above the thermal springs was a podium temple. The construction began presumably in the year of AD 145. A gallo-roman temple is also known.

In case of excavations shops and workshops were found north of the thermal springs. Ground-based radar measurements let presume furthermore a accommodation house and a warehouse. A dwelling house was dug up also.

From the year AD 260 the regions right of the Rhine were lost definitively. There are indications however, that the cure thermal springs were still used in the 8th/9th century.

The thermal springs are today accessible in a shelter in the cure garden. Opening time: