Brief Historical Summary - Silkeborg Spa

It was the founder of Silkeborg, paper manufacturer Michael Drewsen, who first saw the possibility of  establishing a water spa facility on this location - a spa facility that continued to attract the Danish population as spa guests and allow them to regain their strength for their daily tasks through the health springs and recreational environment.

From the slope towards the Ørnsø lake, the Arnakkekilderne springs flow with 3/4 million litres of mineral water daily. The Carlsberg breweries bottle water for their mineral water products here. The highly ferrous water can be drunk directly from the spring.

The water was part of the spa treatments to which the spa guests could subject themselves during a stay at the Silkeborg Bad: warm baths, cold baths, electrical baths, etc. The old spa facility welcomed guests with "lifestyle diseases" in need of either slimming or weight-gaining diets as well as guests with less harmful diseases and reconvalescents. The spa guests could also invite regular guests that were not to receive treatment. The spa was active for 100 years (1883-1983).

5 original buildings remain on the area: The Society Building, the Forest Villa, the Lake Villa, the Spa Building, and the Villa Granly