Designated spa town, Mineral spa resort in Neustadt an der Donau, Germany.
Bad Gögging is a spa town in the municipality of Neustadt an der Donau, with a church whose tower of rough grey stone and red tile roof stands beside a lower block-masonry body. The town has three state-recognised natural remedies: sulphur water, mineral thermal water and natural moor. Its sulphur springs were used by the Romans, and a Roman bathing basin survives beneath St Andreas Church.
The sulfur springs were used by the Romans, and around 110 Emperor Trajan had a bath built for the garrison at nearby Abusina, with a caldarium, sudatorium and frigidarium. In 1960 remains of a Roman bath basin, 10.8 by 7.8 metres, with hypocaust heating were found under the church hill. The place was first mentioned as "Keckinga" in 823; the name means "lively spring".
The name Gögging, first recorded as "Keckinga" in 823, means roughly "living spring", pointing to the sulphur springs. The spa tradition dates to the Romans, who used the springs and built a bath around 110 under Trajan. Today the town is Bavaria's only spa with three state-recognised natural remedies: sulphur water, mineral thermal water and natural moor.
Bad Gögging lies on the Abens in the flat meadows of the Danube, 2 km from Neustadt an der Donau and about 30 km from Ingolstadt; the St 2233 runs through the village. The spa area sits in the village centre, where the Roman bath remains lie beneath the Church of St. Andrew. The sulphur spring was granted protection as a public healing spring in 1910, and the village received its official spa status in 1919.
Bad Gögging is Bavaria's only spa town with three state-recognised natural remedies: sulphur water, mineral thermal water and natural moor. The sulphur springs were already used by the Romans; brick stamps from the bath under St. Andreas show it was financed from both state funds and the emperor's private purse.
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