Temperature 60,1oC, CO2 content 512 mg/l, yield 4,8 l/min. Originally it was called the New Spring (Nový pramen), although it is known from 16th century.It is the famous New Spring on which the attention of all spa guests concentrated in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since 1748 a wooden colonnade of the New Spring was standing above it. Spa doctors had their surgeries right at the spring. David Becher, a famous Karlovy Vary polyhistor, was one of them The drinking cure became a social event - the original wooden colonnade had to be extended (1793, 1811) because it was constantly crowded with patients. Later the spring became a part of the Mill Colonnade. The Mill Colonnade (1871-1881) was planned and built by the architect Zítek. The privileged position of the New Spring was later taken over by the Mill Spring. The water of the New Spring was hidden under the alluvia of the Teplá river.In 1746 Karlovy Vary doctor Springfeld initiated the collection of the spring. A wooden reservoir was built and the spring started to be used in the drinking cure. Doctor Springfeld himself made a chemical analysis of the mineral water and he preferred the curative power of the New Spring to the Hot Spring.In 1762 the reservoir was rebuilt and water rose some feet higher thanks to its own upper pressure (the jars were filled with water right in the reservoir before). But the water gave out an unpleasant smell - it smelt like bad eggs. The smell was caused by hydrogen sulphide which came into being through the reaction of pine wood and mineral water.(A part of the reservoir was made of pine wood). Pine wood was later replaced with linden wood but the smell didn't disappear.In spite of it linden wood was used up to the 60s of the last century. After the World War II the New Spring was renamed and it started to be called the Nymph Spring. In 1984 a new well was made and the water was held at a height of 7,8 m under the floor of the colonnade.
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