Rest. Inner equilibrium. Contentment. You can get back all of these at the Römerkessel Therapeutic Landscape Park at Bad Bertrich.
Peace, inner balance and contentment: all these things that are often lacking in everyday life can be found again in the Römerkessel landscape-therapy park (Landschaftstherapeutischer Park) in Bad Bertrich. Most people regularly feel stressed: they work in enclosed spaces, commute between home and workplace and have too little time for family and friends. To be outside in nature helps alleviate this stress. You find peace and so strengthen your immune system and your self-healing powers.
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If you are feeling uneasy or restless, you will regain your inner balance in the herb garden. This part of the park in Bad Bertrich resembles a body cell: a wall of stones and bushes surrounds the garden like a protective cell membrane. Inside this wall you find peace and feel quite safe.
A winding feng shui path leads to the innermost point in the garden, the cell nucleus. If you walk slowly along this spiral path, you are at the same time setting off on the way to your own centre. You feel body and mind drawing in new energy.
Time-wasting, time-saving, time-thieving: it is no accident that many people often use such expressions. Time in our present society has become a precious commodity which, it seems, no-one has enough of. Everyone wants to use his or her time as effectively as possible. However, that is leading to stress and haste. Free yourself from it, take time to do nothing and let yourself drift. The relaxation garden is the perfect place to do this. An hourglass reminds you symbolically how important time and slowing down are for spiritual health.
The Quiet Garden is a rambling, bright orchard meadow on rising ground from which you have an impressive view of the Krahlberg opposite. At this idyllic place you become quiet and still of your own accord. If you need a break from a hectic and stress-filled everyday life, simply enjoy the beauty and quiet of nature. If worries plague you, find new clarity in the Quiet Garden.
Mighty natural forces once created the breathtaking rocky landscape in the Römerkessel: some 40,000 years ago a stream of lava flowed through the landscape and was broken up by the Ice Age. In the lava garden in Bad Bertrich you discover the awe-inspiring traces of this volcanic past: in the upper lava garden the lava flow has been partly laid bare and you walk past impressive lava blocks.
Scientists have long shown that movement is the best way to relieve stress. In the park in Bad Bertrich you therefore have the opportunity not only of walking but also of practising sport. If you have agreed to meet friends for this, the best place for you to meet would be the Römische Laube (Roman Garden House) at the centre of the Garden of Movement, where you can change.
In the terrace garden you walk around narrow pathways between trees, shrubs and lava blocks, past old walls of natural stone that are overgrown with moss, ivy, grass and ferns. The park in Bad Bertrich here is reminiscent of an exotic, mysterious primeval forest – just the place to give your creativity free rein once again. The unusual and primitive shapes of plants, the winding paths, the rustling of leaves in the wind, seldom heard birdcalls, all stimulate the imagination, and the fresh air clears your head for new ideas. How important that is was known to Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge has limits.״
In the Fürstengarten, with its mighty trees, luxuriant shrubs and bright flowers, you feel the glamour and splendour of bygone ages. This generously proportioned garden is named after the aristocratic siblings who once laid out the first park in Bad Bertrich, the Prince Elector and Archbishop Clemens Wenceslas and his sister Maria Kunigunde of Saxony.
A visit to the Bad Bertrich landscape-therapy park is not only balm to the mind and spirit, by exercising on Europe’s first Vein Path® you can also do something for your bodily health and fitness. At the eight stations on this course you can practise, while sitting, standing or walking, simple but effective movements which enable you to prevent vein disorders in everyday life.
