Kochbrunnen

The chef fountain in Wiesbaden is the most famous hot spring town. The sodium - chloride thermal spring was in the 19th century the center of Wiesbaden drinking cure. Its name refers to the water temperature of about 66 ° C.

The source on the Kochbrunnenplatz was mentioned for the first time in 1366 as Bryeborn ( Brühborn ) and 1536 as Syedenborn ( Siedeborn ). The chef is an artesian fountain source but today passed through a hole. The yield is about 360 liters / minute. The cooking well water has a temperature at the outlet of 66.1 ° C, smells faintly of hydrogen sulfide and tastes strongly salty. It is clear, however, turbid after 24 hours under air access a yellowish. The high carbonation keeps the hardness initially in solution, but after the expansion of the water it precipitates as calcium carbonate. The thereby oxidizing metals colorize the sinter, mineral deposits, red. The total number of dissolved minerals of the cooking water wells is 8.1 g / L; ( In comparison: sea water: 30 g / L).

The cook well is one of the so-called primary sources of Wiesbaden. Only a small part of the water feeds the watering hole at Kochbrunnenplatz pavilion and the " cooking well-jumpers ". The main flow is directed to the processing plant in the Kaiser -Friedrich -Bad. From there it passes into the extensive thermal water system of the city. It is used both for medicinal purposes (also in the thermal bath in Aukammtal ), as well as for heating the Wiesbaden City Hall, the apartments at the Palace Hotel and the " Weberhofs ".

To the Kochbrunnenplatz and the adjacent rim space were grouped some of the Wiesbaden Grand Hotels: as the oldest hotel in Germany, the " Schwarzer Bock ", founded in 1486, the former "Palace Hotel " - it was the first ever with room phone - as well as the " Hotel Rose " where since September 2004, the Hessian State Chancellery is housed.

Between the former pump room on the western edge of the square and the fountain cooking pavilion was destroyed in World War II, angular -scale drinking hall. The arcaded hall now houses a restaurant.

Pavilion of the historic fountain cooking

Drinking fountains in the " Kochbrunnentempel "