The spa town Bad Lausick with the only thermal healing water source in the Geopark Porphyrland
The city tour begins in the spa park of Bad Lausick, created around 1840. Aside from its variety of plants, the park houses large and old trees as well as a butterfly-shaped open-air stage that invites you to concerts or the annual fountain festival in summer. Along the Steingrund stream bank, the route continues into the town. Here you can visit the Romanesque pillar basilica St. Kilian and look into the town's past at the spa and town museum.
Bad Lausick's development from a mining town to a recognized spa town can be explained by its special geological situation. The subsoil consists of former volcanic ash, the Buchheim porphyry tuff, and the Buchheim quartz porphyry. The volcanic porphyry was mined as a building material in the nearby quarries. Brown coal, clay, kaolin, and peat were also extracted in this resource-rich area.
With the opening of the Herrmannsbad in 1821, spa operations began using the now closed near-surface mineral waters. Since the drilling in 1998, the thermal healing water for the spa has been pumped from over 1,300 meters deep.
