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Max Spring

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Max Spring

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Max Spring

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This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Bayerische Rhön

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Location: Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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🚲CyklistCR🚲

May 13, 2022

The Maxbrunnen, which was first documented in 1520, is the town's oldest drinking source. It is a sodium chloride acid. At the time of its first mention in 1520, the Maxbrunnen, then simply called "Sauerbrunnen", was regularly visited by Würzburg canons and a little later, during the second half of the 16th century, it was already the subject of scientific investigations.

Around 1575/80, the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn had the source redesigned. In 1678 another new version was built in a similar way. As part of the redesign of the spa facilities (1737/38) by the Würzburg master builder Balthasar Neumann under Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim, the Maxbrunnen was included in the baroque style in the spatial division of the spa facilities.

As part of a renovation in 1815, a sunken, oval fountain parterre with two concentric flights of stairs was created. As part of this conversion, the spring was renamed after the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph.

A cast-iron pump room was added to the north side in 1841/1842.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxbrunnen_(Bad_Kissingen)

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Fairyqueen🧚🏻‍♀️🇺🇦

May 30, 2020

Today's Maxbrunnen was first mentioned as the oldest source of drinking in Bad Kissingen in 1520. At that time it was simply called "Sauerbrunnen".

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Gecko 🦎

October 1, 2017

Maxbrunnen, the first spa in Bad Kissingen

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Timo

April 14, 2019

Probably the "best" tasting spa of Bad Kissingen. But you should not drink much!

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H.Benkert

May 27, 2019

The water you have to drink in any case

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April 6, 2022

From Wikipedia: The Bad Kissinger Maxbrunnen with the spring temple built in 1911 is located at the address Am Kurgarten 8 in Bad Kissingen, the large district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen, belongs to the Bad Kissinger monuments and is numbered D-6-72- 114-3 in the Bavarian list of monuments.

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Christian

January 2, 2020

In the winter there was a crib that was very nicely lit.

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MPS

July 2, 2022

You get a completely different taste if you drink the medicinal water with your hands.

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cabi

November 19, 2017

further information at
badkissingen.de/de/gesundheit/wellness/36562.Max-Brunnen.html

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Charly

May 17, 2023

Nice fountain but the water is a matter of taste 😊

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Sniper 1

June 5, 2024

One of several fountains

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Patrick🌲

June 9, 2025

Bad Kissingen's oldest spa fountain, documented since 1520, then called "Sauerbrunnen" (Sour Fountain), redesigned around 1580 and surrounded by a decorative stone terrace. Renamed "Maxbrunnen" in 1815 in honor of King Max I of Bavaria.
The "fountain temple" was built in 1911.

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Viajera

December 16, 2022

A little bit of health to go.

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🚴 Rudi Pfeil 🚴

November 10, 2022

Max Brunnen in Bad Kissingen

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Jana

August 16, 2025

Healing spring

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1. Bad Kissingen Rose Garden – in the rose garden loop from Hausen

2. Kaskadentalbach (Ilgenbach) – Kissingen Graduation Tower loop from Hausen

3. Luitpoldbad Bad Kissingen – Botenlauben Castle Ruins loop from Reiterswiesen

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