Marianske Lazne

Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) is the youngest of the famous West Bohemian spa triangle cities.It is located in Karlovy Vary Region, 25 km southeast of Cheb.
In Marienbad and area, there are 100 mineral springs with carbon dioxide and mineral salts, which is captured and used for 53 sources. It is a cold iron-rich mineral water, different chemical composition. The drinking therapies used 6 main sources: the Cross, Rudolph, Caroline, Forest and Ambrose. Mary’s spring, which gave the city the name, the spring of gas – carbon dioxide.
Sources and their healing properties were known long before the founding of the spa people from surrounding villages.

City History

The place where today is the second largest spa town, Marianske Lazne, was in ancient times full of swamps and completely deserted.
In 1197 it established a powerful and noble abbot in Warm – Horrible. The first attempts to establish a spa but could not.
Statute spa, gets to Marienbad in 1818.
Name Marienbad spa acquired under Mary’s spring, which was long before because of pervasive smell called Smelly – got its present name pursuant to the Marian image.
The further development of the spa is credited Teplá abbot Karel Kaspar Reitenberger to the early 19th century began with the construction of the spa houses and pavilions.

Present City

The city has once again lived above the spa and tourism. Are well-known spa wafers Opavia.
Marianske Lazne is situated directly on the rail and road route Plzeň – Cheb, which allows good contact with the world.
In Marienbad, in part Sklare Municipal Airport is used for recreational purposes and for business flight over the city.
The dominant Marienbad are especially beautiful parks which make the city one of the most beautiful garden cities in Europe, about the natural treasures of the care landscape architect Vaclav Skalnik.
Very important building in the city’s colonnade from the years 1888-89 according to the project architect and Miksche Niedzielského with unique decor – wooden coffered ceilings and frescos from 1979 by painter Joseph flew out.
The spa promenade, you can also find the popular Singing Fountain
In a rich cultural life of the current activity is dominated by Marienbad oldest symphony orchestra in the Czech Republic (founded 1821) – West Symphony Orchestra Marienbad.

Significant clients

In 1820 he visited Marienbad Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who visited here twice and lived here my greatest love story.

Celebrities:

British King Edward VII.
Franz Joseph I.
Emmy Destinn – Czech opera diva
Richard Wagner – German composer
Fryderyk Chopin – Polish composer
Friedrich Nietzsche – German writer and philosopher
Johann Strauss – Austrian composer
Edward VII. - British King
Johann Wolfgang Goethe – one of the most important German poets and philosophers
TG Masaryk – the first president of Czechoslovakia
Antonin Dvorak – Composer
Jan Neruda – poet and writer
Franz Kafka – Prague novelist
Jaroslav Seifert – poet and Nobel laureate
Sigmund Freud – Viennese psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
Rudyard Kipling – English author, Nobel laureate
Albert Schweitzer – humanist, Nobel laureate
Carl Maria von Weber – German composer
Thomas Alva Edison – the famous American inventor
Franz Joseph – Austrian Emperor
John Pierpont Morgan – an American tycoon, one of the wealthiest visitors ML – financed the construction of the Panama Canal
Louis Renault – French industrialist and the founder of Renault
Vaclav Benes Třebízský – Czech Catholic priest and writer

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