Budapest Széchenyi Bath, Széchenyi Fürdő


Budapest Széchenyi Thermal Baths, Széchenyi Fürdő (photos: 9 )

Széchenyi Thermal Bath - History of the Bath

The Széchenyi Thermal Bath is one of the largest spa complexes in Europe. It's also the first thermal bath of Pest. It owes its existence to Vilmos Zsigmondy, a mining engineer. on his initiative, successful deep borings had been performed in the City Park, where later, in 1881 already an "Artesian bath" was in operation. However, this temporary type of bath was meeting the demands of the age less and less, so the Széchenyi Thermal Bath was built in 1913 on the basis of plans composed by Gyozo Czigler. The Bath was expanded in 1927 with a public bathing department for gentlemen and ladies and a beach site. In the middle of the 1960s, further transformations took place, including the creation of a group thermal section in bathing suits as well as a daytime outpatient hospital (complex physiotherapy department).

The reconstruction of the pools of the swimming section, their equipment with water filtering and circulation devices was completed in 1999. The so-called fancy bath includes a whirling corridor, underwater effervescence production, neck shower, water beam back massage installed in the sitting banks and many other services.

Budapest Széchenyi Thermal Baths, Szechenyi Spa Bath

Bath units  

Number of pools: 18

Swimming pools (5)

Swimming pools with water filtering and
circulation device
water temperature
water depth
water surface area
27°C
0,80-1,70 m
910 m2
Fancy pool* water temperature

water depth
water surface area
in the summer 30 °C
in the winter 34 °C
0,80 m
600 m2
Thermal sitting pool water temperature 38 °C

Thermal baths (13)

Group bath in bath suits with cabinets for
garments or cabins (7) with fancy pool

water temperature 20-38 °C
Group steam bath in area (6) water temperature 20-40 °C

* Water streaming, effervescent bath, massaging water beam.

 

Budapest Széchenyi Bath, Széchenyi Fürdő

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Water composition  

The water supply for the bath is provided by the Saint Stephen Well Nr.II commissioned in 1938. It is a hot-spring water with calcium, magnesium, hydro-carbonate, also containing sodium and sulphate, with a significant content in fluoride and metaboric acid.

The water of the drinking well is a healing water with calcium, magnesium, hydro-carbonate, chloride, sulphate, also containing alcalics and a substantial amount of fluoride.

Therapeutic proposals

- degenerative illnesses of joints
- chronic and semi-acute arthritis
- orthopaedic and post-injury alterior treatments
In the form of a drinking cure
- chronic gastric catarrh, gastric ulcer, intestinal catarrh
- overproduction of gastric acid
- chronic inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney and of the urine paths
- certain forms of renal stone illnesses
- chronic catarrh of the inhaling organs
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prevention and healing of states of the bone system accompanied by a calcium deficiency

- influencing disturbances of metabolism linked to gout
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in case of certain illnesses of the gall-bladder and the gall paths, for enhancing gall-discharge

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