The Swabian Spa Road is a holiday route that stretches from Lake Constance through the Swabian holiday regions in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Along its route of around 180 km there are 9 health resorts, which have set themselves the goal of combining wellness, wellness holidays and health. You will find support in the naturopathic treatment of the pastor Kneipp, in natural moor and in spacious bathing areas.
Course of the route
Überlingen
The city on Lake Constance has joined the Cittàslow movement, whose goal is to improve the quality of life. Überlingen has been recognized as a Kneipp spa since 1955, and naturopathy and therapeutic fasting have made the city widely known Bodensee thermal baths offers a wide range of wellness options.
Bad Saulgau
A sulfur-containing spring has been in this traditional place for over 200 years Upper Swabian Baroque Street known. An abundant thermal spring has been bubbling with sulphurous water since 1977, and has been available to guests since 1984 Sonnenhof thermal baths to disposal.
Bad Buchau
Bad Buchau is a mud spa and thermal bath at the same time. The Adelindis thermal baths and the spa clinics stand for health and wellness, the pristine nature of the moor landscape around the Federsee offers a variety of activities, and the archaeological finds from the Stone Age represent the ancient culture of this region.
Bad Schussenried
The former Monastery town is on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road. The library hall of the monastery, the Steinhausen pilgrimage church and the museum village of Kürnbach are known far beyond the region's borders. The city has joined the Cittàslow movement to improve the quality of life. The moor spa also offers a wide range of options for hikers and cyclists in the unspoilt nature of Upper Swabia.
Aulendorf
Historic setting of Chloss Aulendorf and parish church Sankt Martin, modern spa facilities and a Schwaben-Therme With thermal pools, Roman baths and saunas, embedded in a charming landscape, promise a contemporary offer for leisure, activities, relaxation, wellness and health.
Bad Waldsee
Mud spa, Kneipp spa and Thermal bath with the hottest spring in Upper Swabia, a picturesque old town between Stadtsee and Schlosssee with numerous sights, the city offers its guests a wide range of health, wellness and culture options. Diverse sports and leisure options help you enjoy your vacation.
Bad Wurzach
The city of Bad Wurzach in the Württemberg Allgäu is the oldest mud bath in Upper Swabia, and with the Vitalium thermal baths it has an excellent thermal bath and health center. The environment also helps the guest to feel good. First and foremost, this includes the Wurzacher Ried, one of the largest raised bog areas in Central Europe. In addition to largely unspoilt nature, it also offers the peat museum with a train and educational trail.
Bad Groenenbach
In the small town in the Unterallgäu the future pastor got and Water doctor Sebasitan Kneipp first contacts with the Herbal medicine, it is one of its five pillars, to which the elements are added Water, exercise, nutrition and natural lifestyle belong. Bad Grönenbach has geared its cures to this holistic concept.
Bad Woerishofen
Sebastian Kneipp's name is closely associated with this city, where he lived for more than four decades and developed his water treatment. In the Bad Wörishofen thermal baths and the spa clinics, spa treatments based on the holistic teachings of Sebastian Kneipp activate the body's own powers.
Bathing cycle path
Since 2009 the Schwäbische Bäderstraße has been supplemented by a variant for cyclists. The route with a total length of 233 km is divided into 8 stages, but it is not signposted as a bathing cycle path (as of 2013). The GPS data for the tour can be downloaded from the Schwäbische Bäderstraße homepage.
Stages:
- Überlingen - Bad Saulgau 70.5 km
- Route: Überlingen - Salem - Deggenhausertal - Horgenzell - Wilhelmsdorf - Roßkirch - Bad Saulgau
- Bad Saulgau - Bad Buchau 13.7 km
- Route: Bad Saulgau - Dürnau - Kappel - Bad Buchau
- Bad Buchau - Bad Schussenried 13.9 km
- Route: Bad Buchau - Oggelshausen - Aichbühl - Bad Schussenried
- Bad Schussenried-Aulendorf 7.5 km
- Route: Bad schussenried - Zeller See - Otterswang - Aulendorf
- Aulendorf - Bad Waldsee 14.5 km
- Route: Aulendorf - Tannweiler - Reute - Bad Waldsee
- Bad Waldsee - Bad Wurzach 18.1 km
- Route: Bad Waldsee - Haisterkirch - Haidgau - Bad Wurzach or alternative route via Graben and Wengen
- Bad Wurzach - Bad Grönenbach 41.2 km
- Route: Bad Wurzach - Truschwende - Diepoldshofen - Leutkirch - Ottmannshofen - Lautrach - Illerbeuren - Bad Grönenbach
- Bad Grönenbach - Bad Wörishofen 51.8 km
- Route: Bad Grönenbach - Wolfertschwenden - Ottobeuren - Dirlewang - Bad Wörishofen
Web links
- official page the Swabian Baths Road
