Heppinger medicinal water
The Heppinger Heilwasser is a natural healing water from the Heppinger spring. The Heppinger springs are located in the medicinal spring protection area of the old Heppinger fountain in the Ahr valley near Bad Neuenahr . "Heppinger extra" is now produced as "healing water" by Apollinaris GmbH in accordance with the requirements of the German Medicines Act .
history
The healing effect of the water from the springs at the Heppinger Brunnen at the foot of the Landskrone (Ahr) mountain was mentioned in the scientific medical literature of the Renaissance from 1565 by the doctors Johann Winter von Andernach (University of Strasbourg, Paris) and Jacob Theodorus Tabernaemontanus (University of Heidelberg) .
A well operation for the extraction, storage and sale of mineral and medicinal water from the Heppinger springs is proven in 1715 by a drawing by Renier Roidkin .
An analysis of the components of the Heppinger mineral water appeared in the Ahr Valley Guide by Ernst Weyden in 1835 . It was carried out by the Bonn geologist Karl Gustav Bischof , who was involved in the drilling of the Apollinaris spring , only about 1000 meters away, in 1852 .
The mineral and medicinal water of the old Heppinger fountain "Heppinger" was known nationwide and in 1852 was sold abroad by pharmacies in Luxembourg. The spring water was filled into clay-baked mineral water jugs with the seal of the Heppinger Fountain, anchor and triangle as a stylized sail (see illustration of the “Heppinger” clay jug).
The mineral water operation of the old Heppinger Fountain with the Heppinger springs was acquired in 1885 by the "Actiengesellschaft Apollinaris Brunnen" through a contract with the Royal Prussian Government in Koblenz.
In 1910 the German Reich government in Berlin recognized the "non-profit status" for the sources of the Heppinger Fountain, in 1929 the Prussian government in Koblenz granted special protection for the Heppinger water and the source area through the medicinal spring protection ordinance of June 15, 1929, which is still valid today.
application areas
The medicinal water "Heppinger extra" is used, among other things, to prevent and compensate for magnesium deficiency , when there is an increased need for magnesium in growing age, during pregnancy, breastfeeding and during sport, to stimulate digestive functions, to prevent uric acid, cystine and calcium oxalate urinary stones as well used for the supportive treatment of chronic urinary tract infections .
The Heppinger Heilwasser is now available in stores as 0.75 liter returnable glass bottles . It is suitable for drinking cures and for long-term use. Depending on the area of application and, if necessary, a doctor's prescription, 1.5-3.0 liters should be consumed in addition to the normal fluid intake.
ingredients
1000 ml "Heppinger extra" contains the following ingredients:
Cations :
- Lithium - Ion : 0.84 mg
- Sodium ion 481 mg
- Potassium ion 27.1 mg
- Ammonium ion 0.53 mg
- Magnesium - ion 199 mg
- Calcium ion 150 mg
- Manganese (II) 0.007 mg
- Iron (II / III) 0.009 mg.
Anions :
- Fluoride ion 0.52 mg
- Chloride - ion 118 mg
- Sulphate ion 60 mg
- Monohydrogen Phosphate Ion 0.06 mg
- Hydrogen carbonate ion 2495 mg.
undissociated substances :
- Metasilicic acid 41.7 mg
- Metaboric Acid 5.72 mg.
dissolved gaseous components :
- Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) 2.760 mg.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Winter (also G. von Andernach): commentarius de balneis & aquis medicatis, in tres Dialogos distinctus , 1565, p. 139.
- ^ Jacob Theodor (Jacob Theodorus) Tabernaemontanus: Neuw Wasserschatz. Frankfurt 1593, chap. LXII and LXIII
- ^ Drawing by Renier Roidkin, in: Walther Ottendorf-Simrock: Heimatchroniken des Kreis Ahrweiler. Archive for Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH Cologne 1968, pp. 263–264 and Wilhelm Knippler: 1000 years of Heppingen, historical overview. Thousand Year Celebration Working Group in Heppingen, Verlag Warlich, Ahrweiler 1965, p. 102
- ↑ Ernst Weyden: The Ahr valley. A guide from the mouth of the Ahr to its source , Verlag von Habicht 1835, p. 36
- ^ Luxemburger Wort (international German-language daily newspaper): Clean drinking water for the city of Luxembourg, May 23, 1852.
- ↑ district administration Ahrweiler: History Apollinaris www.rotweinwanderweg.de,
- ↑ Medicinal Spring Protection Ordinance of the Prussian Government in Koblenz , published in Official Gazette No. 26 of June 15, 1929.
- ↑ a b c Apollinaris GmbH: "Heppinger extra", www. heppinger.de
literature
- Walther Ottendorf-Simrock, Walther: healing springs and mineral fountains in the Ahrweiler district . In: Home chronicles of the Ahrweiler district . Archive for Deutsche Heimatpflege GmbH, Cologne 1968, pp. 261–283.
- Ernst Weyden: The Ahr Valley. A guide from the mouth of the Ahr to its source . Published by Habicht, Bonn 1835.
- Wilhelm Knippler: 1000 years of Heppingen, historical overview . Working group for the millennium in Heppingen, Verlag Warlich, Ahrweiler, 1965.
