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Tübingen District

Heiliges Brünnle Natural Spring

Natural Monuments

Tübingen District

Heiliges Brünnle Natural Spring

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Heiliges Brünnle Natural Spring

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Please check local regulations for: Geopark Schwäbische Alb

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Location: Albstadt, Zollernalbkreis, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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3. Heidensteinhöhle – Heidensteinhöhle loop from Albstadt-Ebingen

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February 3, 2024

Information board:
Heilig Brünnele
Pilgrimage site from pre-Reformation times. Healing water - many sick people are said to have recovered. The water dried up in an earthquake in 1911 and reappeared in 1938.
Supported by the Swabian Alb Association

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February 3, 2024

The spring was once said to have healing powers. Sick people drank it, and injured people washed their wounds and clothes in it. The Albverein now looks after the facility.

The older generation of Tailfinger residents can still remember how strong their belief in the positive effects of the water from the Heilig Brünnle was in their younger years. The facility has long since become nothing more than a meeting point to enjoy the beautiful view over Truchtelfingen and the valley.

The Brünnle was buried in 1911
The annals of the Tailfinger Albverein local group reveal that it was recorded in their former minutes book and "reported at the general meeting on May 2, 1939 on the Stiegel that the Heilig Brünnle was flowing again after it had been buried since the earthquake of 1911." The Alb Association brought the spring back to life
Whether the Brünnle, also called Brünnele, once had healing powers is something nobody knows today. However, the writer of the Tailfinger local history book also looked into it. There you can read, "Behind the Braunhardsberg, near the border between Tailfinger and Truchtelfinger Bann, the Holy Brünnle springs up. After it had dried up for a long time, the Swabian Alb Association captured it years ago and brought it back to life.

Source: zak.de/Nachrichten/Seit-acht-Jahrzehnten-fliesst-das-Wasser-des-Heilig-Bruennle-wieder-138640.html

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February 3, 2024

People used to be convinced of its healing powers.

It goes on to say: “In the past, its water had healing powers. Sick people drank it, injured people washed their wounds and clothes in it, and as a result they all became whole and healthy. As thanks, they put a coin at the spring or a piece of clothing for the poor. If the sick people could not walk themselves, they had the water fetched. The Truchtelfinger women also washed their small children's clothes in the miraculous water.”

Path warden Hermann Conzelmann reached for the shovel
This was already the case before 1911, until the severe earthquake buried the spring or dried it up. In 1938, Eugen Wizemann and the then newly elected path warden Hermann Conzelmann spent many hours digging out the little well and restoring it. On July 29, 1939, at the end of the work, “this event was concluded with a photograph.”

A shelter was to be built here
Hermann Conzelmann, who held office for twenty years, had in mind, according to the annals, to build a shelter at Heilig Brünnle. "But the outbreak of war prevented the plan and gradually the work on the paths came to a standstill."

The Albverein still takes care of the facility responsibly today
As early as 1945, Hermann Conzelmann and his colleagues at the time set about adding path markings and making path improvements. The work also included the Heilig Brünnle on the Hermann-Maute-Weg, and nothing has changed to this day. "We regularly do our rounds there or check on the facility when we receive reports," says chairman Walter Buschbacher.

Two benches invite you to linger
He and some energetic colleagues ensure that the facility is always in good and clean condition. Nothing will change in the future; the eighty-year-old Brünnle with its two benches deserves it in the view of the Albverein members.

Source: zak.de/Nachrichten/Seit-acht-ähneten-fliesst-das-Wasser-des-Heilig-Bruennle-wieder-138640.html

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Jürgen

January 20, 2019

Nice rest area with a nice view. There is clear cold water to fill the bottle and refresh. The water is given healing powers. Therefore the name.

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Rudolf⛰️🦅

March 9, 2022

Very nice brick fountain with benches to rest. Magnificent view to the castle rock tower.

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Bulli07

March 18, 2020

Beautiful at all times

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Schimi_mtb_official

February 21, 2021

Today, February 21st, 2021, at 4:37 p.m. on the Braunhartsberg, I rode my bike to the viewpoint above tailfingen

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Location: Albstadt, Zollernalbkreis, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Heiliges Brünnle Natural Spring

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