Wettin source

The Wettin spring , at times also referred to as a radium spring and from the mid-1960s as a radon spring , in the spa gardens of Bad Brambach in the Saxon Vogtland was discovered by Max Weidig in 1911 and is a healing spring by decision of the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior in Dresden on December 15, 1914 been declared. The spring, which was initially called Neue Quelle , was owned by Brambacher Sprudel GmbH at the time. In 1911, Hofrat Forster, city chemist for the city of Plauen, suggested that the society have the source examined by the renowned Fresenius Science Institute in Wiesbaden. Alfred Czapski and Heinrich Fresenius discovered a very high radon content and published in 1911 the results of the “Chemical investigation of the“ Neue Quelle ”zu Brambach im Vogtlande as well as the investigation of radioactivity“ as well as the “Neue Quelle zu Brambach iV, the strongest known radioactive mineral spring ".

E. Roth from Halle (Saale) describes the source as highly radioactive . The source is the strongest radon source in the world , which is used today for drinking cures .

literature

Alfred Czapski and Heinrich Fresenius: Chemical investigation of the "New Spring" to Brambach in the Vogtlande. In: Chemiker-Zeitung. No. 79, year 1911.
Alfred Czapski and Heinrich Fresenius: The new source to Brambach i. V., the strongest known radioactive mineral spring. In: Der Balneologe: Journal for the entire physical and dietetic therapy ... Volume 4, Berlin, J. Springer, 1934, p. 97.
Alfred Czapski: The radioactivity of the new spring to Brambach in the Vogtland. In: Journal of Physical and Dietetic Therapy. Volume 16, 1912, p. 441.
E. Roth: The Wettin spring in Brambach in Saxony, one of the strongest radium mineral springs in the world. In: Journal of Physical and Dietetic Therapy. Born in 1915, p. 146 ff.
Victor Franz Hess : Expert opinion of the radiological institute in Vienna on the strength ratios of the radium water of the Wernerlauf in St. Joachimsthal and the Wettin spring in Brambach i. V., Vienna, April 13, 1915. Brambach 1915.

Web links

Ulrich Koch, Jens Heinicke: Hydrogeological phenomena of the Bad Brambacher mineral water system in the vicinity of Vogtland / NW Bohemian swarm quakes . Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , Working Group Bad Brambach / Freiberg, Lecture: 1st European Congress "Kurort & Umwelt", Bad Elster / Bad Brambach 13. – 15. October 2003, online at www.fcwe.de

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich Koch and Jens Heinicke: The Bad Brambacher mineral springs. Hydrogeology, genesis and seismohydrological features. ( Memento of February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, accessed on February 8, 2014)

50.221725 12.299371Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '18.2 " N , 12 ° 17' 57.7" E

[1] Ulrich Koch and Jens Heinicke: The Bad Brambacher mineral springs. Hydrogeology, genesis and seismohydrological features. ( Memento of February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, accessed on February 8, 2014)