historical graduation house

Germany's most beautiful graduation house is located directly on the Werra. Strictly speaking, it is a technical monument. During the times of salt extraction, the brine trickled over the brushwood walls made of blackthorn. With the evaporation, water was extracted, the brine became more saline - thus higher grade.

The first salting graduation house was built in 1590, there were 24 in total. When around 1800 the healing effect of the brine was discovered, the spa operation began. All the graduation towers were demolished except for the present east wall of the graduation towers. In 1901 a completely new graduation hall was erected opposite the east wall exclusively for inhalation purposes.

The architecturally unique central building between the two 80 metre long graduation walls, of which the eastern one is over 200 years old and the western one over 100, was built shortly after 1900 in the Henneberg-Franconian half-timbered style. The whole ensemble was completed in 1906 with a drinking hall and a music pavilion.

In the open-air inhalation on the graduation walls, the brine still trickles over blackthorn walls today. The brine is atomised and unfolds its healing effect, especially in the case of breathing difficulties. The spa guests of Bad Salzungen walk along it in white capes.