Trinkpavillon, Drinking pavilion in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany
The Trinkpavillon is a listed drinking pavilion in the Stadtpark of Bad Godesberg, built in 1969 next to the Stadthalle. Its taps pour water from the Kurfürstenquelle, a roughly 70-metre-deep borehole drilled in 1962 between the Kleines Theater and the pavilion. The water, a sodium bicarbonate chloride acidulous spring, flows day and night at about 14.5 °C, and its high iron content shows as deposits at the dispensing point.
The spring feeding the site was known in Roman times, but healing use stayed local. Elector Maximilian Franz had the Draitschquelle re-bored and built baths, a cold-water cure house, guesthouses and the Redoute. In 1962 the Kurfürstenquelle was drilled about 70 m deep between the Kleines Theater and the Trinkpavillon; the pavilion opened in 1969. Bonn ran it until 1995, and since 2017 the Bürger.Bad.Godesberg association has maintained the listed building.
The name Kurfürstenquelle refers to the prince-electors (Kurfürsten) who promoted Bad Godesberg as a spa; the spring was drilled in 1962. The water is classed as a sodium-hydrogencarbonate-chloride acidulous spring, and its high iron content shows as reddish deposits at the taps in the Trinkpavillon. Since 2017 the association Bürger.Bad.Godesberg e. V. has kept the listed pavilion open at regular hours.
The drinking pavilion stands in the Stadtpark between the Kleines Theater and the Stadthalle, at Koblenzer Straße 80. The spring's borehole is about 70 metres deep, and water flows from the taps day and night at roughly 14.5 °C. The listed building is looked after by the Bürger.Bad.Godesberg association, which offers regular opening hours.
The water's high iron content is visible at the tap in the Trinkpavillon. The spring was drilled in 1962 between the Kleines Theater and the pavilion, reaches about 70 metres deep, and flows day and night at roughly 14.5 °C.
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