Due to the physio-geographical situation, the Upper Rhine Plain with Germany's warmest climate, fruitful volcanic soils, already in the Roman period used medicinal springs and spas with very good infrastructural features, the proximity to France and Switzerland Baden had better prerequisites to develop a high quality gastronomy than Wurttemberg or Bavaria.
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Due to the physiogeographically situation, the Upper Rhine Plain with Germany's warmest climate, fruitful volcanic soils, already in the Roman period used medicinal springs and spas with very good infrastructural features, the proximity to France and Switzerland Baden had better prerequisites to develop a high quality gastronomy than Wurttemberg or Bavaria.
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The village had a brief 18th-century career as a medicinal spring for " hydrochondriac melancholy, scurvy, want of appetite, indigestion, stoppage of urine, obstruction of the bowels, ulcers in the lungs, and for spitting of blood ", but there does not appear to have been appreciable commercial development of the spring.
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The original Spa, a Belgian town with allegedly healthful mineral springs, gave its name not only to springless health resorts but also to mineral water; as early as 1600, any medicinal spring or well was called a spa ( or spaw ), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and by the mid-1600s you could get spaw-water in a bottle.
