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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
Adults only
Wellness area

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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, you'll find the Bavarian State Spa, Bad Brückenau. The magnificent setting of the Baroque building complex around the expansive 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 restore inner balance.

Healthy Eating

Weckbecker Therapeutic Fasting

The packages 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 vital cuisine.

The Vegetarian Alkaline Organic Vital Cuisine

The vegetarian alkaline organic vital 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 integrated into everyday life long-term.
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 vital cuisine. You will receive personalized tips on how to easily incorporate the meal rhythm of interval fasting into your daily routine as a new habit.

In the lobby, the restaurant (alkaline organic vital 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, compresses, and wraps. Here you will find a 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 array of massages (e.g., classic, lymphatic drainage, acupoint meridian, Breuss and Dorn, connective tissue, cupping, reflexology, and Shiatsu massages, etc.), osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, colon therapy for intestinal rehabilitation (intestinal bath), Weckbecker therapy (a combination of small and large 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 therapies, as well as meditations. Comprehensive laboratory diagnostics. The therapies and treatments are available weekdays (Mon.-Sat.).
A Kneipp pool in hotel I and the large Kneipp wading pool with the barefoot path on the spacious lawn are at your disposal.

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 pedicures.

Pool & Fitness Area

At hotel I, you'll find the indoor pool (7x14m, open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and the sauna area (open until 9 p.m.) featuring a Finnish sauna, bio-sauna, infrared sauna, and steam bath. Sensorial showers, a 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 offer a perfect relaxation experience.
The fitness room is equipped with cardio machines, including 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, offering a wide and weekly changing selection of sports and relaxation activities to support health and lifestyle changes. Options include aqua fitness, early 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 diet. 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 approach to medicine is ideal for treating chronic conditions and risk factors, or for preventing them.

Dr. med. Erich von Weckbecker (1920 - 2005), the 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 catalyst for the development of 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 acts anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, anti-allergic, and psychologically stabilizing. Weight loss is often a welcome side effect.
2. Pillar: Movement & Relaxation, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy - For health maintenance, the rhythm of tension and relaxation is crucial. Therefore, both components are found in the extensive TuRuh Program. With precise techniques, osteopathy achieves interactions and imbalances between muscles, internal organs, spine, and joints.
3. Pillar: Water Therapy according to Kneipp, Weckbecker Colon Bath (Colon Therapy) - Alternating baths, affusions, and wraps stimulate metabolism, circulation, and the lymphatic system, benefiting the blood circulation and the autonomic nervous system sustainably. The colon bath therapy developed by Dr. med. Erich von Weckbecker effectively supports therapeutic fasting.
4. Pillar: Spirituality, Life Counseling & Mindfulness - During fasting, one often experiences increased sensitivity. The distance from everyday life and the tranquil atmosphere 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 (House 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 Cure. Small texts for reflection and further thought, along with 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.

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Hotel rooms at a glance

The Malteser Clinic of Weckbecker offers 112 delightful rooms, predominantly single rooms (approx. 16 or 25 sqm), several double rooms (approx. 20 or 25 sqm), and apartments (approx. 45 sqm). The rooms are located across two buildings, with the Standard category in Building I and the Comfort category as well as the 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 those with disabilities are also available. All rooms are accessible by lift. Please note that the images shown are representative of the room types available.

    SGL standard forest side

    approx. 16 sqm

    DBL Standard forest side

    approx. 16 sqm

    Single room comfort, balcony east side

    approx. 25 sqm · Balcony

    SGL=DB Standard south side large

    approx. 20 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

    Standard Single Room, Large Forest Side

    approx. 20 sqm

    DBL Standard South Side Large

    approx. 20 sqm

    Comfort Double Room, Balcony East Side

    approx. 25 sqm · Balcony

    Double Comfort Room, balcony south/west

    approx. 25 sqm

    Comfort Panorama Apartment south/west

    approx. 45 sqm · Balcony

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

143 verified reviews by travelersOnly customers who have traveled with us are allowed to leave a review

4.6 Outstanding  

100% recommend the hotel to others

4.6
Hotel
4.8
Service
4.8
Treatments
4.6
Board type
4.4
Wellness area
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  • 'versatile care'
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  • 'clean rooms'
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143 Results
Simply great!

Christine M.

October 2025

60 to 69 years | 4 - 8 days

The staff were always friendly and courteous. The treatments were great and the food was fantastic!

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!

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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