The legend of the Count Mirtemberg, who discovered its healing powers by seeing a wild boar go down to the warm spring to wash its wound, has been rendered familiar by Uhland to every German.

Ulrich von Hutten also used it.

It rises in a Black Forest valley inclosed by stately mountains, a little stream, the Enz, crystal clear, and abounding in trout.
The small town on both banks of the river expands, ere the Enz loses itself in the leafage, into the Kurplatz, where one stately building of lightred sandstone adjoins another.

The little white church stands at the left.

But the foil, the background for everything, is the beautiful foliage, which is as beneficial to the eyes as are the springs to the suffering body.