Excursion Bílinská kyselka
Dates are on working days from 10:00 a.m. to 15:00 p.m. (for groups of 8 people or more)
Entrance fee:
Children and youth under 15: CZK 70
From 15 years: CZK 150
Book your appointment:
tel .: 734 841 981
basta@bhmw.cz
Excursion to Bílinské kyselke for groups at the springs directorate in Bílina with an expert explanation by marketing manager Karel Bašta. Here you will learn about the world-famous history of the Bílinsk-Teplice spa industry and visit the modern operation of the bottling plant of the spa springs. You will taste Europe's most valuable drinking spa spring directly from the source of BJ-6. In the spring hall in the Inhalatorium, you can taste the Bílina Municipal spring.
Bottling with a centuries-old tradition takes place in a modern reconstructed interior. When tasting, everyone can convince themselves of the excellent qualities Bílinské kyselky, whose parameters allow bottling without any modifications. You can also taste the world legend, Zaječickou hořkou.
What will you see here?
There is also a spa restaurant, Lobkovická forest cafe Café Pavillon, minigolf, natural amphitheater, swimming pool, sports stadium, tennis courts, a city Info center is being prepared, a shop with a complete range of Bílina and Mariánské Lázné bottlers, a museum is being prepared Bílinská kyselka.
3D model of the area
INFORMATION CENTER BÍLINSKÁ KYSELKA
kyselka@icbilina.cz
Tel: +725 508 148
Overview of booked excursions:
Description of the source location BÍLINSKÁ KYSELKA
Bílinská kyselka a Jaječická bitter they have been known throughout the civilized world for centuries. Both healing springs represent the world's best and an important part of the European concept of SPA.
Bílina Kyselka, the place where history was written
The sources of the most famous European healing springs were visited by important world figures. I was visited by JJ Berzelius, the father of modern chemistry. A. Humboldt, a German travel legend, JW Goethe, L. Beethoven and many others. They came here for the springs and for Dr. AE Reuss (father of European balneology) and V. Löschner from the nearby "salon of Europe", Teplitz in Böhmen. Also due to passionate discussions, whether the impressive mountain Bořeň is here (Biliner Stein) a real "German stratovolcano". But it is not, it is an igneous rock phreatomagmatic volcano, as well as all other peaks of the Český Středohoří.
What can we find in the area of Bílinská kyselka
In the Bílinská kyselka complex, you will find a comprehensive set of reconstructed buildings of the princely commercial and industrial directorate of springs, the Bílinská kyselka bottling and production site and Jaječické bitter water. Furthermore, spa buildings, a huge spa forest park with an arboretum, a forest amphitheater with a digital cinema, mini golf, a spa restaurant, a large swimming pool, tennis, a football field, an athletics stadium and an information trail. The Lobkovic Caffe Pavilon, brought from the Jubilee Prague Exhibition, located in the forest park near the spa buildings, is also used for relaxation. In the near future, a museum of mineralogy and mineral extraction is being prepared, as well as a museum of the most famous railway of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the richest private company in Central Europe, Aussiger-Teplitzer Eisenbahn.
What is Bílinská kyselka?
Bílinská kiselka is the strongest spring with an excellent alkaline and naturally sparkling composition. The old Czech word "kiselka" means a spring with carbonic "oxygen" content. This natural effervescence, very suitable for use in gastronomy due to its refreshing taste, also distinguishes Bílinská most from the otherwise very similar springs of the French spa town of Vichy, which spring hot and are therefore not effervescent.
Thanks to this similarity, Bílina was also called "German Vichy" in world literature. Alkaline medicinal waters are the queens of medicinal waters due to their versatile use. From the simple reduction of stomach acidity, through the long-term regulation of gastric acid excretion, Bílinská is suitable for almost all processes of digestion and metabolism. Throughout the period of Austria-Hungary and socialism, it was recommended for industrial operations, for diabetics and for preventive drinking treatments to prevent kidney and urinary stones.
What is Zaječická horká
Zaječická bitter water as the clearest bitter salt spring caught the attention of the world public thanks to the report of Bedřich Hoffman, the personal physician of the Prussian monarch. He found in it a long-sought successor to English Epsom salt, which was known as a perfect laxative. Bitter salt, magnesium sulfate, remains the perfect laxative due to its ability to dissolve the contents of the intestines. Zaječická hořká is still mined today in the same place in the same qualities and is very popular and often directly crucial for patients. The first encyclopedia printed in Czech also speaks of the fact that it "purifies the blood", and today we already know that its sulfate content helps to efficiently metabolize toxins and eliminate them from the body.
The intervention of the princely directorate established Bílin in the history of world pharmacy
The spread of awareness of the products of the Bílina springs directorate in Lobkovica also gave rise to the worldwide naming of the first manufactured "powders". These first pharmacy products were spontaneously named (without the consent of the Lobkovics) as Sedlecké powders (Seidlitz Powders) and their composition was supposed to resemble Bílinská and Zaječická, which was far from the truth. But the producers were sure that people perceive Sedlecká water as a luxurious medicine. Thousands of different types of packaging and boxes of Sedlecké powders are now an interesting collector's item, and this whole case justifies calling Zaječická the "mother of all medicines".
The building includes an information center where they sell water from their production at a lower price than in regular distribution.
The production can be visited as part of an excursion, during which you will learn many interesting facts about the history of the mineral water.
Bílinská kyselka is a mineral water for medical use and hence a natural healing water source. It originates in the Central Bohemian Mountains near the town of Bílina and is pumped from a depth of over 190 meters from the sources located in the massif of the Kaňkov Hill. Thanks to its high carbon dioxide content, it is naturally sparkling, its flowing water temperature is between 8 and 11 ° C. At present "Bohemia Healing Marienbad Waters" company provides the worldwide distribution of Bílinská acidulous mineral water.
