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Schützenhof spring

Fountain of the Schützenhof spring, 2003
Fountain of the Schützenhof spring, 2003

The Schützenhof spring is located to the southwest of the Adler spring. It springs from a quartz vein that feeds cold groundwater into the thermal water, so that the water only reaches a temperature of 47 °C to 49 °C. It was apparently already used by the Roman occupants of the fort (Roman) above the Heidenmauer. There were even references to Celtic deities such as Sirona, the goddess of healing, and Epona, the goddess responsible for horses.

In the first half of the 15th century, a bathing inn of the same name, the Schützenhof, was mentioned, which used the thermal spring. In the 19th century, the spring was the focal point of the grand hotel "Schützenhof" and was also used by the neighboring municipal baths for ordinary people. With the decline of the hotel, it passed to the city of Wiesbaden. The original shallow well was also replaced in 1969 by a 125.5 m deep borehole, but only extended to 60 m below ground level. The borehole is located in the basement of the Coulin parking lot, but a pipe leads to a drinking point on the square.

The borehole encountered the following layers in the subsoil: 0.00 m to 1.30 m clay, dark gray; 2.00 m sand, yellow, and gravel; 5.00 m gravel and sand, brownish yellow; 6.00 m sandstone and clay, brownish yellow; 125.0 m sericite gneiss with lots of gangue quartz. There was a small satellite, the Schützenhofbad spring, but it dried up as early as 1947.

Literature

Michels, Franz; Thews, Joe-Dietrich: Die Thermalwasserbohrung Schützenhof-Quelle in Wiesbaden. In: Jahrbuch Verein für Naturkunde, 101/1971 [pp. 75-81].

Stengel-Rutkowski, Witigo: Hydrogeological guide to the saline thermal springs of Wiesbaden. Ed.: Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde, Wiesbaden 2009.

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