Guided walk “August Leberecht Wunderwald – The brine and the spa in Bad Sulza”

With Norbert Becker

Meeting point: 10:00 a.m. Tourist Information Office

August Leberecht Wunderwald (* 1834; † December 26, 1913) was a German mining engineer, mining councillor and spa director in Bad Sulza, who played a key role in the establishment of the local spa. He was also a doctor.

In 1867, he was appointed shift foreman at the Oberneusulza salt works and was later promoted to senior salt works inspector. In the years that followed, he made a name for himself as spa director and head of the local salt works in Bad Sulza. Basically, he had established the structure of the spa business in Bad Sulza. He was initially a member and secretary of the Sulzaer Badeverein, which was founded in 1864, and from 1890 was chairman of the Sulzaer Badeverein. The inhalatorium in Bad Sulza was opened by him on June 15, 1903. Wunderwald’s house was not far from the graduation house. Old postcards bear witness to this. Wunderwald worked at this spa for over 55 years.

One year after the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Sulza brine baths, which Wunderwald had played a key role in organizing, he was made an honorary citizen of Bad Sulza in 1898. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary of service in August 1908, a street in Bad Sulza was named after him.