The spa town was founded in 1793 from the initiative of the Cheb doctor Dr. Bernhard Adler on the place of an old curative spring. The centre of the spa became a large promenade street. Typical spa architecture has preserved from the late 18th and the early 19th centuries – Classicist and Empire buildings, period pavilions, parks as well as sacral monuments (worth mentioning is the orthodox Church of St. Olga, as a remembrance of frequent Russian clientele), from the later period buildings in the style of Historicism. The spa town is mainly famous with rich sources of sulphur-ferric peat and mineral springs (such as the Louisa’s Spring, the Glauber´s Springs etc.), used for the cure of heart and vascular diseases, gynaecological diseases and disorders of the motor system (the spa houses Rubeška, Imperial, Esplanade, Belvedere).