Fountain with Majolica Figures, Kurpark Villingen

Relic from the time when Villingen wanted to become a Kneipp and drinking spa. The majolica figures are particularly protected by the monument protection. The buildings originally intended as drinking halls now house a restaurant. The hall was never used for drinking because the line from the nearby radon-containing Romäusquelle was never built because an effect could not be proven.

The "spa park in the Kneipp pool"

According to a press release from the Green Spaces Office dated August 8, 1996, a source containing radon was discovered in 1934 on the site of the former Nerlinger nursery (to the north of today's swimming pool). It was named Romäusquelle after Villingen's patron saint. After completion of the spa facilities, a pipe should lead the supposed healing water to a drinking hall in the spa park.

When the Kneipp pool opened on July 18, 1934, it was not yet the modern chlorinated concrete pool that is in its place today. According to the forefather of the nature movement, Jean-Jacque Rousseau, untouched nature was considered a state of innocence and happiness. After the First World War, the bourgeois and workers' sports clubs boomed. Made possible by the legal regulation of working hours to an 8-hour day, many sports enthusiasts from all walks of life pushed into the great outdoors to do their physical exercises in the sun and wind, to fit in with the rhythm of the eternally flowing water and with the elemental power of Mother Earth in to reach harmony.

According to these ideals, the Kneipp bathing facility was created as a natural swimming pool on the footpath laid out by head forester Ganter between the Brigach and the commercial or mill canal branched off for Rindenmühle, Unteren Hammer and V(e)itmühle. The fresh river water of the Brigach flows through the natural swimming pool. Brigach and Mühlkanal were redesigned into a water landscape idealized by horticultural interventions.

A very big park