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The unhygienic drinking water of the very shallow housing wells in Illmitz was
the reason for the annual summer sickness of the whole population. Also, typhus
sometimes affected the village. The water had a very high concentration of
Kalcium (1200mg/l) and Nitrate (1500mg/l). For exemple example: the Viennese
water currently has a maximum of 8mg/l! For this reason, the mayor of Illmitz
began to charter a drilling team in 1929 that would search for fresh water. They
found an artesian spring and established a spring house, where everybody could
come to take the water they needed. The mineral water is named
"Arteserwasser," and has now been available for free since 1931. As a
result, now the population is largely free of sickness and cancer. (ED: I always
take some bottles with me to take some water back to Vienna. It's really good
for the kidneys & prostate.) The spring of St. Bartholomäus is a
"Natrium-Hydrogencarbonat-Mineral-Trinksäuerling" with a constant
temperature of 15.6° Celsius, at 201.3 meters below ground. In 1996, the
Burgenland Government declared it to a mineral spring. (Heilquelle) In between,
other drillings bring the result, there is the biggest European mineral water
lake under the Lake Corner, with a total area of about 250 square kilometers,
equal to 96.53 square miles.
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