This document from June 20, 1922 is the technical "birth certificate" of modern spring collection in Bílina. This report by engineer Arnold Scherrer from the Bad Ems spa goes to the roots - it addresses how to technically ensure that Bílinská kyselka remains clean, sparkling and stable even in demanding...

This document from the late summer of 1946 is another fascinating piece of evidence of how precisely and ambitiously the Lobkowicz spring business was run in the immediate aftermath of the war. While the Treaty for America (March 1947) represented a bold leap into the "New World", this Austrian...

In our museum archive we keep a document that is an eloquent testimony to the ambitions and international fame of the Bílina springs. It is a contractual amendment from March 9, 1947, signed by the Directorate of the Max Lobkowicz Springs in Bílina. This document is not just a dry legal document...

In 1888, a new Franz Josef spring was drilled. From this spring, water had to be carried day and night on backs in baskets to the warehouse, and the empty bottles still had to be transported by cable car to the second bottling plant. This of course increased costs considerably. In order to...

From the Prague Exhibition Grounds to the Bílina Park 1891 • Provincial Jubilee Exhibition in Prague This event spontaneously became a kind of symbol that Bohemia, part of the Austrian Monarchy, was moving towards the ideal of an independent nation-state. And thanks to its industry and powerful...

A view of us from the outside Description of Bílina, Teplice and Zaječice in the bible of European spa tourism In his book, James Johnson captured life in Teplice and Bílina in a unique way. And he did so from an extremely interesting perspective for us, that is, from an impartial perspective, unfamiliar with our circumstances. That...

1840 • Bílinské digestive pastilles The phenomenon that gave rise to the classic heartburn pastille At the beginning there was a small idea of ​​how to concentrate the healing effect of the spa spring into a "smaller" and more compact form, combined with improving its taste. At the end there was a phenomenon that...

Bílinská and Zaječická on the wheels of the century of steam. In the year when Jules Verne's "20 Leagues Under the Sea" was hot news, the track of a new technical innovation, the steam railway, cut through Bílina. Although it was intended primarily to supply Prague with coal from the brown coal basin,...

This historical paradox, where a synthetic pharmaceutical product has benefited from the fame of a natural source for decades, despite having a completely different composition, is a fascinating chapter in the history of marketing. The birth of the global brand Sedlitz In the 18th and 19th centuries, the name of the small village of Sedlec...

The father of modern chemistry and scientific ambassador of Bílinská kyselka in Europe, Swedish chemist and physician Jöns Jakob Berzelius is one of the most important scientists of all time. He is the man who gave chemistry its current language – he invented a system of chemical symbols for elements (such as H, O or Ca), which...