Temperature 59oC, CO2 content 429 mg/l, yield 5 l/min.It was discovered only when the foundations for the building of Spa III were dug in 1865. It means that it is the youngest spring in the row of the Karlovy Vary mineral springs which are used in the drinking cure. A wooden summerhouse was soon built over it which today ranks among listed sights.Up to the half of the last century the Liberty Spring and its wooden pavillon used to be separated from the spa world with a big rock. The rock reached as far as to the bed of the Teplá river. (A statue of St.Bernard used to stand on the rock). In the opinion of David Becher (1722), a famous Karlovy Vary doctor, thermal springs were known in the slope above the present Liberty Spring in as early as the 16th century. D. Becher ordered a reservoir to be built here. A hospital (Fremdenhospital) used to stand here in 1812 and that was why the spring was originally called the Hospital Spring.Only when the rock had been removed, the colonnade on the left bank of the Teplá river was extended and new spa facilities were built. The Spa III (originally the Spa House, Kurhaus) was one of them. It was built in the years 1864-67 and cost 350.000 guilders.On excavating the foundations a big crack in the granite was discovered. Plenty of thermal water (about 30 litres/min) sprang into the crack. It was very warm - 64oC. To stop the undesirable inflow into the building pit, the workers followed the crack further east and the reservoir was built there. This new spring was supplying the Spa III with water for a number of years. Only in 1872 the spring started to be used in the drinking cure. A small temple was built here and in 1877 it was removed to its present place. In 1897 it was replaced with an octagonal wooden pavillon. Its replica has been standing up to this time. It was originally called the Spa Spring but soon it was re-named and called the Franz-Josef Spring - in honour of the kaiser who was ruling at that time. In 1945 it was given its present name
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