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Melchior Adam Weikard 1742 - 1803
A special physician. Melchior Adam Weikard was appointed 1764 as the "Physikus" of the department Brueckenau. Thus he became a bath physician of the government-run health resort. He was born as a son of a landlord in Roemershag, a district of Brueckenau.
Melchior Adam Weikard 1742 - 1803Today, his birthplace is still preserved and run as a inn. Weikard wrote several fountain- and invitation documents about the health cure in Brueckenau.

That way he established the position of the new health resort far beyond the German borders. In 1784 he was appointed as a court physician of the Russian empress Katharina II. to the Tsar court in St. Petersburg.
 

Weikard returned to Brueckenau. He died there in July 1803.

 

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