Moments to recharge your batteries

Let go - marvel - recharge your batteries ... in Bad Schandau Tradition and modernity, impressive nature and a fantastic location make Bad Schandau a unique place of power. Here in the oldest health resort in Saxon Switzerland, traditional spa facilities and relaxing wellness offers ensure the regeneration of energy. In the midst of the fascinating rocky landscape, the stress of everyday life disappears and inner balance returns. If you want, you can start the day with gentle movements doing yoga on the Elbe meadows or get to know the five pillars of Sebastian Kneipp's holistic natural healing methods during a short health hike.

Find your moments to pause and recharge your batteries!

What could be more pleasant than taking time for your health in the middle of a unique landscape? In the oldest health resort in Saxon Switzerland, the power of nature and traditional healing according to Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) meet. The healing effects of cool water, fresh air, exercise and healthy nutrition lead to holistic well-being. 

Today, in Bad Schandau, in addition to two post-hospital curative treatment and rehabilitation clinics, a variety of physiotherapies offer the best care for recovery and aftercare cures. A visit to the Toskana Therme is a treat for all the senses. The offer is completed by high-quality wellness offers and well-kept spa facilities.

The story begins in 1730, when Johann Christian Häntzschel from Schandau had the spring of the Röten Flößgen in the Kirnitzschtal valley captured. The water, which contained iron and copper, was soon called Schandau's Gesundbrunnen and from 1750 was also used for bathing. In 1799, the merchant Gottfried Hering built a bathhouse where heated healing water flowed through wooden pipes into the basins of eight bathrooms.

The reputation of the healing effect attracted more and more guests even then. In the second half of the 19th century, the hotelier and entrepreneur Rudolf Sendig arranged for several new pension villas to be built in the town area and laid out the spa park. Thus, Schandau developed into a trendy health resort. In 1920 Bad Schandau received the title of spa and since 1936 the town has been allowed to call itself a Kneipp spa. 

Relax and enjoy holistic treatments - a gift for body and soul. Wellness offers as well as beauty and body care do not only increase the well-being. We do something good for our health when we feel good and let ourselves be pampered. Positive energies refresh and revitalize our inner and outer being.

Many hotels have a spa area with exclusive offers. Relaxing massages in the Asian tradition, scented baths or revitalizing cosmetic treatments are just three examples of a rich selection.

All types of fasting cures are based on the principle of omission. The complete, partial or temporary renunciation of solid food or certain foods has a health-promoting effect. Inner peace and sharpened senses are positive consequences of fasting. Cleansing processes begin in the body that keep us healthy and can have a regenerating effect on certain illnesses.

Probably the most well-known fasting method is Buchinger's therapeutic fasting, in which solid food is completely avoided and only water, tea, juices and clear vegetable broth are consumed. With base fasting, only acid-forming foods are avoided. Intermittent fasting is based on a daily period of 16 hours or one or two days per week without eating solid food.

In Bad Schandau, those interested can take part in accompanied fasting cures in the Hotel Elbresidenz at the Bad Schandau thermal baths, in the Falkenstein Clinic or in the Dirk Huxol naturopathic practice. The supervised courses enable exchange with like-minded people and usually offer supportive wellness offers or a suitable supporting program such as guided hikes or yoga.