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Malteser Klinik von Weckbecker
FIRST CLASS

No. 1 Hotel
for Detox & Fasting
No. 1 Hotel
in Germany
70 Years of Weckbecker - The Power of Less
Medical Expertise in a Comforting Ambience
Dedicated, Qualified Doctors and Therapists
To the offers

Live healthily from within.

Fasting, detoxing, relaxing, rejuvenating, and Kneipp therapy. With over 70 years of experience and the highest medical expertise, the Clinic for Fasting & Naturopathy is distinguished not only by its comfortable, welcoming ambiance but also as a place of warmth and care - promoting a long, fulfilling life (Longevity). Particularly ideal for solo travellers!

Most popular facilities

Free Wifi
Swimming pool
Quiet location
Handicapped accessible
Suitable for seniors
Perfect for solo travellers
Organic food
Organic hotel
Adults only

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Malteser Klinik von Weckbecker in Detail

Your Specialized Clinic

The Malteser Clinic of Weckbecker, located in Bad Brückenau amidst the scenic Rhön region, boasts over 70 years of tradition as one of Europe's leading specialized clinics for Integrative Medicine. The clinic offers a comprehensive, holistic treatment program that combines time-tested natural therapies such as fasting and lifestyle change concepts with modern medical insights. All services are based on the Four Pillars concept by the clinic's founder, Dr. med. Erich von Weckbecker (see below). Dedicated, qualified doctors and therapists provide care with warmth and attention, ensuring your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In an era of hectic bustle, this hotel is a special place for comfort and well-being, ideally blending enjoyment and recovery surrounded by magnificent nature. The non-smoking hotels are located on the forest edge of the south slope, with many rooms and public areas offering panoramic views of the valley over Bad Brückenau.
Additional facilities include a chapel, a library, and cozy lounges.

Location & Surroundings

The idyllic town of Bad Brückenau, located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, is accessible via a footpath or the access road. Just about 1.9 miles from the clinic is the Bavarian State Spa, Bad Brückenau. The magnificent setting of the Baroque building complex around the extensive spa park provides the perfect environment for relaxation and recovery. This royal gem was created by King Ludwig I of Bavaria as his summer residence. The numerous healing springs of the spa town rejuvenate and help rediscover inner balance.

Healthy Eating

Weckbecker Therapeutic Fasting

The fasting arrangements include fasting meals such as juice fasting with mineral-rich vegetable broths, freshly pressed vegetable juices, and herbal teas, or fasting with milk and bread rolls. Therapeutic fasting has proven anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, anti-allergic, and psychologically stabilizing effects.
As a follow-up diet, you will receive vegetarian alkaline organic vitality cuisine.

The Vegetarian Alkaline Organic Vitality Cuisine

The vegetarian alkaline organic vitality cuisine is prepared using high-quality organic and regional ingredients, freshly and gently cooked. Due to their high content of minerals such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium, they are considered "base-forming". The body is supplied with a high density of vital and secondary plant substances, initiating detoxification and deacidification processes, activating metabolism, and strengthening the immune system.
For a lasting effect, nutrition therapists in the teaching and participatory kitchen, through individual consultations, lectures, and shopping coaching, convey how a pleasurable and healthier diet can be successfully maintained in everyday life.
Individual diets and organic gentle diets (after consultation with a doctor) are also available.

Weckbecker Interval Fasting

With interval fasting, you combine the positive effects of fasting with tasty, healthy nutrition from the alkaline organic vitality cuisine. You will receive individual tips on how to easily incorporate the meal rhythm of interval fasting into your daily routine as a new habit.

In the lobby, in the restaurant (alkaline organic vitality cuisine) and in the two fasting halls, tea and water bars are available 24 hours a day.

Medical Spa

The Natural Therapy Center impresses with its extensive Kneipp area for upper body washes, alternating and full-body affusions, alkaline, arm, and foot baths, packs, and wraps. Here you will find the bright gymnastics room and an ergometer room, as well as qualified physiotherapy. The Medical Spa offers a comprehensive range of treatments and therapies: a wide range of massages (e.g., classic, lymphatic drainage, acupoint meridian, according to Breuss and Dorn, connective tissue, cupping, reflexology, and Shiatsu massage, etc.), osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, colon therapy for intestinal rehabilitation (intestinal bath), the Weckbecker therapy (a combination of thin and thick intestine massage, osteopathic techniques, reflexology, and acupoint meridian massage), electrical stimulation and ultrasound therapy, homeopathy, phytotherapy, orthomolecular medicine, leech therapy, and infusions. Sports, movement, and relaxation therapy, as well as meditations. Comprehensive laboratory diagnostics. The therapies and treatments are available on weekdays (Mon.-Sat.).
A Kneipp pool in hotel I and the large Kneipp wading pool with the barefoot path on the large lawn are available for your use.

Beauty

There is an extensive range of cosmetic treatments for the face and body, for both men and women, including anti-aging and anti-cellulite treatments and medical foot care.

Pool & Fitness Area

Hotel I houses an indoor pool (7x14m, open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and a sauna area (open until 9 p.m.) featuring a Finnish sauna, bio-sauna, infrared sauna, and steam bath. Sensorial showers, relaxation room, and a fresh air area with loungers are also available. Additionally, there is a separate women's sauna. A light shower and an infrared cabin are perfect for relaxation.
The fitness room is equipped with cardio machines, and a Milon Cardio Circuit, which can be used after a personal briefing and issuance of a chip card (approx. 29€ (UK £25 / USD $31)). The spacious gymnastics room has a window front facing the garden, allowing for outdoor exercise.

Weckbecker-TuRuh Programme

The holistic "Weckbecker-TuRuh Programme" is always included. It offers a wide and weekly changing selection of sports and relaxation activities to support health and lifestyle changes. Options include aqua fitness, morning exercise, full-body fitness, yoga, , therapeutic dew walking, forest bathing, fascia training, Flexibar, Theraband, training with reactive dumbbells, guided hikes, Qi Gong, progressive muscle relaxation, autogenic training, meditation, life coaching, creative courses, spiritual offerings, and nutritional and medical lectures on topics such as fasting and nutrition. The programme changes weekly, and some activities have limited availability.

Integrative Medicine – Rethinking Health

Integrative Medicine combines modern conventional medicine and scientific diagnostics with recognized natural healing methods. This modern form of medicine is ideal for treating chronic diseases and risk factors or for preventing them.

Dr. med. Erich von Weckbecker (1920 – 2005), founder and namesake of the clinic, turned to natural medicine due to severe illness. He experienced the effective interplay of various therapies that relieve and regenerate the body, mind, and soul. His subsequent recovery was the impetus for developing his Four Pillars Concept, which reflects the methodology of his path to health and zest for life and forms the basis of all the clinic's offerings.

The Four Pillars Concept

1. Pillar: Therapeutic Fasting, Nutrition & Dietetics - By voluntarily abstaining from solid food, your body switches to "internal nutrition" during fasting. Therapeutic fasting has anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, anti-allergic, and psychologically stabilizing effects. Weight loss is often a welcome side effect.
2. Pillar: Movement & Relaxation, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy - Maintaining health is significantly influenced by the rhythm of tension and relaxation. Therefore, both components are found in the extensive TuRuh Program. With precise manipulations, osteopathy achieves interactions and imbalances between muscles, internal organs, the spine, and joints.
3. Pillar: Kneipp Hydrotherapy, Weckbecker Colon Bath (Colon Therapy) - Alternating baths, affusions, and wraps stimulate metabolism, circulation, and the lymphatic system; the circulatory system and the autonomic nervous system benefit sustainably. The colon bath therapy developed by Dr. med. Erich von Weckbecker effectively supports therapeutic fasting.
4. Pillar: Spirituality, Life Coaching & Mindfulness - During fasting, one often experiences increased sensitivity. The calm atmosphere and distance from everyday life give you the opportunity to focus on these aspects without time pressure, supported by the pastoral-psychotherapeutic team!

Fasting in Silence
During a fasting stay in Comfort Rooms (Building II), meals can be served directly in your room upon prior registration. In your personal retreat, you can consume meals quietly and thoughtfully - an important aspect of the Weckbecker Fasting Therapy. Small texts for reflection and further thought, as well as impulses from the field of pastoral care & psychology, accompany you in this process.

Free Time

Hiking and trails start right at the clinic's grounds, while cycling routes begin from the town centre. Nearby, you'll find a driving range (golf), bicycle rental, and tennis facilities. The city of Fulda and the Maria Bildhausen Monastery, both approximately 30 km from the clinic, are well worth a visit.

Getting There

Additional information

Hotel rooms at a glance

The Malteser Clinic von Weckbecker offers 112 delightful rooms, predominantly single rooms (approximately 16 or 25 sqm), a few double rooms (approximately 20 or 25 sqm), as well as apartments (approximately 45 sqm). The rooms are located across two buildings, with the Standard category in Building I and the Comfort category and apartments in Building II. All rooms feature a private bathroom, hairdryer, telephone, satellite TV, a safe, and Wi-Fi. Rooms suitable for allergy sufferers or guests with disabilities are also available. All floors are accessible by elevator. Please note that the images shown are representative of the rooms.

    SGL standard forest side

    approx. 16 sqm

    Single room comfort, balcony east side

    approx. 25 sqm · Balcony

    DBL Standard forest side

    approx. 16 sqm

    Apartment with south-facing balcony

    approx. 45 sqm · Balcony

    Standard Single Room South Side

    approx. 16 sqm

    Single room comfort, balcony south/west

    approx. 25 sqm

    SGL=DB Standard south side large

    approx. 20 sqm

    Standard Single Room, Large Forest Side

    approx. 20 sqm

    Comfort Double Room, Balcony East Side

    approx. 25 sqm · Balcony

    DBL Standard South Side Large

    approx. 20 sqm

    Double Comfort Room, balcony south/west

    approx. 25 sqm

Our additional services

    Basic organic gentle full board 800 (vegetarian, approx. 800 kcal)

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    Alkaline Organic Vital Full Board 800 (vegetarian, approx. 800 kcal)

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    Basic organic gentle full board 1600 (vegetarian, approx. 1600 kcal)

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    Alkaline Organic Vital Full Board 1600 (vegetarian, approx. 1600 kcal)

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Customer ratings for Malteser Klinik von Weckbecker

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4.6 Outstanding  

100% recommend the hotel to others

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I can return to my everyday life strengthened and recovered, with my complaints alleviated

Gabriele L.

June 2025

solo | 60 to 69 years | 4 - 8 days

A soothing break with inner and outer cleansing, many suggestions for a healthier everyday life, careful, versatile individualized health care. Very friendly and accommodating staff overall, from the house team to the kitchen to the therapists. Unobtrusive but appealing design of the rooms and very beautiful nature all around!

Nourishing, calm, much needed rest and care

Andrea L.

April 2025

solo | 60 to 69 years | Longer than 23 days

I was fasting at the Weckbecker Klinik and it was well-supervised, comfortable and nurturing.

A successful fasting vacation with excellent support

Birgit G.

October 2024

solo | 60 to 69 years | 12 - 16 days

The Weckbecker fasting clinic has an excellent reputation for good reason. The fasting retreat is very well supervised over the entire period, with several medical appointments and treatments. There is a varied sports program (yoga, gymnastics, hiking, walking, etc.), a swimming pool, fitness equipment and several saunas. Without exception, the staff are very friendly and always ready to help. There is a pleasant, warm atmosphere throughout the hotel. The rooms are always spotlessly clean. My fasting retreat was a complete success. The clinic is very suitable for those traveling alone. Most of the guests here are healing therapies alone and you can quickly make contact with the other guests if you want to.

Location

Malteser Klinik von Weckbecker
Germany, Rhoen / Vogelsberg, Bad Bruckenau
Frankfurt am Main International Airport (FRA)
approx. 134 km / 91 min
Train station Fulda
approx. 34 km / 28 min

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