page_title: Maglekilde
section_title: Maglekilde Spa and later history
hierarchical_section_title: Maglekilde / History / Maglekilde Spa and later history
caption_attribution_description: English: The shortlived Maglekilde Spa (Maglekilde Vandkuranstalt) which existed fgrom 1846 until 1851 in Roskilde, Denmark. The Building was demolished in 1972.
context_page_description: Maglekilde is the most powerful of several natural springs in Roskilde, Denmark. It formerly issued water at a rate of some 90,000 litres per hour but has now dropped to 15,000 litres per hour. A wellhouse was built over the spring in 1927. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1979.
context_section_description: The disused industrial complex was acquired by a group of citizens from Roskilde in 1846. They demolished the buildings, filled the mill pond and built a combined spa and mineral water factory on the site. The complex was designed by the architect Hans Conrad Stilling. The water was directed through a closed ditch to a grotto on Maglekildevej where it sprang from the mouth of a Neptune figure. A small wellhouse was built over the spring in 1927. The spa building was used for other purposes prior to its demolition in 1972.
  Never gaining popularity, Maglekilde Spa (Maglekilde Vandkuranstalt) attracted only few guests and closed after just two years in 1851. The complex was in 1851 acquired by Constant Dirckink-Holmfeld, a German-born civil servant and political writer, who had fallen out of favour in Copenhagen for his criticism of the March Revolution and new constitution. He lived in part of the complex while the rest was still used by the mineral water factory or rented out to private tenants. He moved to Hamburg in the early 1750s.
  Maglekilde Machine Factory opned at the site in 1865.
caption: Maglekilde Spa in 1847
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