A temple with a fountain, representing sandbath treatment for gout and other diseases at Bad Köstritz. Colour lithograph attributed to P. Scheurich, ca. 1910.

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<p>"The exploitation of brine from 'Heinrichshall' also laid the basis for the health and spa system in Köstritz initiated by Dr. A. Sturm in 1845. In 1865 a spa center with brine and other therapeutic baths as well as hot sand baths was established which helped uncounted patients to relieve or even cure their complaints of the rheumatic sphere until 1990. The spa center was the reason for the town being called Bad Köstritz (Spa Köstritz), officially recognised in 1926."--website of Bad Köstritz, accessed in August 2011</p>
<p>The temple is a rotunda held up by unfluted columns with gross entasis. In front of it are sandbath beds towards which, on the right, lame and rheumatic persons are making their way, and from which, on the left, they are departing cured. The temple may be based on the more elegant temple containing a statue of Ceres placed in the castle gardens of Bad Köstritz around 1785 and still a feature of the town in 2011</p>

A temple with a fountain, representing sandbath treatment for gout and other diseases at Bad Köstritz. Colour lithograph attributed to P. Scheurich, ca. 1910.

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