Bad Durkheim

The Cure

The state-approved spa resort of Bad Dürkheim provides everything you need for successful health treatments. The focus is on up-to-date healthcare using tried and tested treatments and the judicious introduction of state-of-the-art therapies. It's just so easy to improve your health here. 

Health treatments specific to Bad Dürkheim include drinking and bathing in the water from the Fronmühl spring (contains sodium chloride) and inhaling water vapour produced from it. Complementary spa therapies include physical therapy in thermal exercise pools. Mud and peat packs, medical baths, physiotherapy, underwater massage, connective tissue and periosteum massage, reflexology and colonic massage, lymphatic drainage, electrotherapy and hot air and ice treatments complete the range available. The resort alos offers a clinic specialising in neuroses, neurotic malfunctions, psychovegetative and/or functional disorders, psychosomatic cardiovascular diseases, psychological malfunctions in connection with cancer. 

The Town

Bad Dürkheim is located on the eastern rim of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzer Wald), called the Haardt. The Deutsche Weinstraße ("German Wine Road"), a scenic road along the best vineyards ofthe Palatinate wine region, runs through the district from north to south. The district is sometimes called "the heart of the Palatinate". The best wine-growing area is the Mittelhaardt ("Middle Haardt"), where the Riesling wine is cultivated, which is considered to be one of the best German wines. The wine is celebrated every year with a Festival called Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt, one of the largest, most traditional and entertaining public festivals in Germany.