DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Karlsruhe
Kreis: Calw

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Bad Teinach-Zavelstein is situated at an elevation of 558 m in the valley of the river Teinach in the district Calw, only about 5 km southwest of the district town. The municipality has a population of about 3,000 (2004).

According to a legend, the mineral spring in the Teinach valley was discovered by a stag and thus bears the name 'Hirschquelle'. In the 17th and 18th century Teinach became a favourite spa place of the dukes of Württemberg. In 1710 Duke Eberhard Ludwig built a summer residence and in 1835 the town obtained the status of a royal spa. Under King Wilhelm I of Württemberg, several spa buildings in the historic town centre were built in Classicist style by Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret.

In 1975, the spa town Bad Teinach, the smaller town of Zavelstein (chartered in 1367) and the neighbouring villages of Rötenbach, Emberg, Schmieh and Kentheim were amalgamated into the new municipality of Bad Teinach-Zavelstein.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Teinach-Zavelstein]