Therme Bad Aibling

Therme Bad Aibling, opened September 17, 2007 and designed by Stuttgart-based Behnisch Architekten, is built around the Desideriusquelle, a sodium-chloride-hydrogencarbonate-sulphur thermal spring with elevated fluoride and iodide content, extracted at 39.1°C from roughly 2,300 meters depth. The spring is named after Desiderius Beck, who established the town's first brine-and-peat-mud bathing facility in 1845; it received official recognition as a healing source from the Bavarian state government in summer 2008. The thermal water is used therapeutically for rheumatology, orthopedics, and neurology, and the facility draws about 300,000 visitors annually.