Bertiny Lázně (Berta's Spa)

Founded in 1882 by local teacher Václav Hucek, who by 1881 had raised the capital to demolish a dance hall he owned and build a spa in its place — naming it “Bertha’s Spa” after his daughter, according to the town archivist. Třeboň’s peat, drawn from local marshland bogs of sedge, reed mace, and reed with iron and sulphur content, was found to be even more effective for musculoskeletal disorders than the peat used in West Bohemia’s spas, and remains the basis of the facility’s treatment programs today.

Bertiny Lázně (Berta's Spa) in Třeboň, Czech Republic offers peat baths, peat wraps, and wellness stays, part of its medical and wellness program.

Peat from Czech Republic is mainly lowland fen peat and transitional bog peat. Treatments like these are sometimes called peat balneotherapy and peat body wraps, most often explored for psoriasis, back pain (chronic low back pain), joint inflammation (osteoarthritis, rheumatic conditions), and eczema (atopic dermatitis). See our evidence library for the studies.