Bodendorfer Thermal Sprudel

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Bottle and drinking glasses from the 1950s

Bodendorfer Thermal Sprudel was a mineral water bottled in Bad Bodendorf from 1919 to 1967 from the St. Josef Sprudel spring . Old production facilities are exhibited in the technology museum.

St. Josef Sprudel

St. Josef Sprudel
the detached iron is clearly visible.

The water is a thermal sodium - magnesium - hydrogen carbonate acid . The spring still exists today and is used by the Sinziger mineral fountain and the thermal outdoor pool.

The water was last confirmed in 2012 as a state-recognized medicinal water source .

Today the Sinziger Mineralbrunnen GmbH has a right of partial use for the water of this spring.

History of the source

The Bodendorf farmer and community leader Josef Hardt noticed a hollow in his fields to the right of the Ahr , in which dead animals lay repeatedly. He noticed that there was an open carbon dioxide leak here. On November 20, 1900, a well was found here. The water shot up at 42 ° Celsius. This spring, named Ahr spring , was used by the population and summer visitors.

This source was already included in the German Bath Book of 1907. The owner is the Bodendorfer Sprudel GmbH company (Managing Director Dr. Herzfeld, Fürth) . Contrary to the representation in the Heimatjahrbuch, it is noted here that this source was known for several centuries under the name of Matthäus-Sauerbrünnchen and was used by the surrounding population. A temperature of 32 ° Celsius is also given here.

However, the bulk quantity was not sufficient for economic use. On January 13, 1913, Josef Hardt drilled another spring on a neighboring property - the St. Joseph-Sprudel . Due to the First World War , the economic use was delayed until 1919. Now Josef Hardt and his sons began to commercially exploit the carbon dioxide that was released. This was so successful that the competing carbon dioxide association Westkontor Koblenz agreed in 1922 against a monthly severance payment with Josef Hardt, who stopped delivering gas to foreign customers. Due to the growing bathing business in Bad Bodendorf, Josef Hardt drilled again in 1930 near the now disintegrated Ahr source . The newly drilled St. Josef-Sprudel exceeded the St. Joseph-Sprudel with a higher bulk volume and has a temperature of 31 ° Celsius.

Drop-off points

Delivery point at the thermal swimming pool in Bad Bodendorf

The following delivery points exist for the water from the St. Josef spring:

  • in the old pump room at the former spa center
  • at the external tap in front of the thermal swimming pool (freely accessible all year round)
  • in the thermal swimming pool, behind the swimmer's pool

History of mineral water

Under the direction of the Hardt family, the use of the springs for the spa with 5 bath cells began in 1924 .

The Bremen businessman Ferdinand Sauer founded the “Bodendorfer Thermal Sprudel” in 1927 and began bottling. The company was taken over in 1931 by "Norddeutsche Hütte AG", which was part of the Krupp Group. In 1939 sales were 4 million bottles.

After the Second World War , the soda was operated with new filling systems. This was used to fill 6,000 bottles per hour in 1954. After this expansion of the “Alte Sprudel”, the “Neue Sprudel” was put into operation in 1959, as the business with mineral water continued to develop positively.

The bottling plants were bought up by competitor Tönissteiner Privatbrunnen in 1967 and shut down.

Technology museum

The technology museum of the Bad Bodendorf Local and Citizens Association is now located in the old Kurmittelhaus. Old systems for mineral water production and carbon dioxide extraction are exhibited here. The core of the exhibition is the carbonic acid liquefaction plant from 1918.

Web links

Commons : Bodendorfer Thermal Sprudel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recognition as a healing source. In: City of Sinzig. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Jürgen Haffke: The development of the spa tourism in Bad Bodendorf . In: Ahrweiler district (ed.): Heimatjahrburch 1980 . Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler ( Kreis-ahrweiler.de [accessed October 27, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Imperial Health Office (ed.): German bath book . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1907, p. 143 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed October 27, 2016]).
  4. ↑ a b House in Grüner Au - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c The history of the spa. Rhein-Zeitung, Ahrweiler district, November 22, 2016, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Entry on the carbon dioxide gas liquefaction plant in Sinzig (St. Josef Sprudel, Technikmuseum Bad Bodendorf) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '52.6 "  N , 7 ° 13' 5.8"  E