Discover Bad Rilchingen

Bad Rilchingen combines thermal water, local history and cultural discoveries to create a diverse travel destination. Those looking for a holiday apartment or holiday home can plan their stay according to their own interests: the main attractions include the Saarland Therme, the historic spring facilities, church and art history, and connections via the Saarbahn.

Thermal water and wellness in Bad Rilchingen

The Saarland Therme offers water attractions in indoor and outdoor pools, sauna infusions, and wellness and massage treatments. The thermal baths have around 100 water attractions in total. The pools are supplied with thermal water from the brine spring in Rilchingen; the water is officially recognized as medicinal water. For special time together, a private spa can be booked, featuring its own sauna, whirlpool and couples massage.

This allows you to plan your trip in different ways: after an excursion, you can combine your time away with water, a sauna or a massage, while other days can focus more on local history and culture. When choosing your accommodation, you can therefore consider whether to focus on wellness or combine several types of experiences.

Springs and the history of salt production

The springs are among the defining features of Rilchingen. Intact springs can still be found in Rilchingen today. The Mariannen Spring supplied the Rilchingen mineral water known far beyond Kleinblittersdorf. As early as 1791, Countess Marianne von der Leyen had a saltworks and a boiling house built in Rilchingen to make use of the water's healing properties.

The surviving Viktoria and Augusta spring towers also point to this history. They were presumably commissioned around 1791 together with the saltworks. In the park of the Brothers of Mercy in Rilchingen-Hanweiler, the old spring towers on the Sternenweg were symbolically given a scallop shell stone. Those interested in regional history, springs and religiously influenced routes will find several different points of connection for planning their trip here.

Church, art forum and ruin

The parish church of St. Walfridus stands in Rilchingen-Hanweiler. It is a three-aisled hall church built in the neo-Gothic style. The present church was consecrated on July 15, 1887. The Welfert Chapel has also been preserved as a ruin in the cemetery of Rilchingen-Hanweiler.

The Ernst Alt Art Forum is located in the former rectory of Rilchingen-Hanweiler, directly next to St. Walfried Church. During your stay, you can therefore combine different forms of local history: sacred architecture, a preserved chapel ruin and art in a historic building. For families with different interests, this combination makes it possible to alternate cultural discoveries with more relaxed days at the thermal baths without limiting the holiday to just one theme.

Getting there and choosing a suitable base

For planning trips across the region, Saarbahn line S1 is an important point of reference. It runs via Kleinblittersdorf, Auersmacher and Hanweiler and connects Saarbrücken with Sarreguemines. If you would also like to include these places during your stay, you can take this connection into account when planning your arrival and day trips.

The Brothers of Mercy in Rilchingen-Hanweiler offer pilgrim meals and accommodation on request or by prior booking. When looking for a holiday apartment in Bad Rilchingen, the desired combination of thermal baths, springs, culture and rail connections remains the main consideration. This allows you to choose accommodation according to your planned travel rhythm without having to commit to a single focus for your holiday.

For the overarching travel overview: Kleinblittersdorf.