Mattoni Waterfall - Kyselka, Czech Republic
Posted by: 
ToRo61
N 50° 15.516 E 012° 59.954
33U E 357386 N 5569299
Mattoni Waterfall in former Kyselka Spa
Waymark Code: WMTDEF
Location: Karlovarský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 11/06/2016
Views: 19
The Kyselka Spa (Czech: Lázne Kyselka; German: Bad Giesshübl), is a complex of former public baths in the village of Kyselka in the vicinity of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.
The local springs had been discovered hundreds of years ago; the first written account dates back to 1522. The fame of the spa and the tasty water was growing; in 1852 Otto of Greece visited the place and the main spring was named after him.
In 1867 the main spring was rented by the Czech businessman of Italian-German origin Heinrich K. Mattoni who began to bottle the water in glass bottles and export it worldwide. In 1873 he had enough money to buy the spa and the surrounding land. Before he died in 1910, he managed to build a new colonnade which roofed the famous “Otta’s spring” as well as the buildings of the sanatorium, the hydropathic institute, hotels, restaurants, promenades, the cableway, the chapel of Saint Anna (1884), his monumental residence (“The Chateau”), a hydroelectric power station and the buildings of the bottling plant.
Resumption of artificial waterfall, which for her house was built by Heinrich K. Mattoni, located in the park of the former spa Kyselka. It is healing warm spring coming to the surface.
Source and more information: (
visit link)