Luftkurort, literally meaning 'air spa', is a title given to towns or cities in Austria and Germany which are health resorts which have a climate and air quality which is considered beneficial to health and recovery. [1] [2] Tests are repeated on a regular basis to ensure that standards of air quality are maintained. A municipality with this classification can charge a health resort tax for all guests who spend the night there.
Monschau is a small resort town in the Eifel region of western Germany, located in the Aachen district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Andrea Fischer was a member of the German Bundestag for the German Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002.
Bad Aibling is a spa town and former district seat in Bavaria on the river Mangfall, located some 56 km (35 mi) southeast of Munich. It features a luxury health resort with a peat pulp bath and mineral spa.
Kellinghusen is a town in the district of Steinburg in the Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein.
Environmental standards are administrative regulations or civil law rules implemented for the treatment and maintenance of the environment. Environmental standards are typically set by government and can include prohibition of specific activities, mandating the frequency and methods of monitoring, and requiring permits for the use of land or water. Standards differ depending on the type of environmental activity.
Rita Süssmuth is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Schmallenberg is a town and a climatic health resort in the High Sauerland District, Germany. By area, it is the third biggest of all cities and towns of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the second biggest of the region of Westphalia.
Geroldsgrün is a municipality in the Hof district of Bavaria, Germany.
Gaiberg is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg.
Bernau am Chiemsee is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim in Germany on the Lake Chiemsee, and a Luftkurort.
Gars am Kamp is a market town at the Kamp river in the district of Horn, region Waldviertel in the Austrian state Lower Austria with 3,542 inhabitants (2016).
Grasellenbach is a community in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.
Stadtkyll is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Gerolstein, whose seat is in the municipality of Gerolstein. Stadtkyll is a state-recognized climatic spa (Luftkurort).
Welschneudorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – and a Luftkurort in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The German Agency for Quality in Medicine (AEZQ) - in German "Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)", established in 1995 and located in Berlin, co-ordinates healthcare quality programmes with special focus on evidence-based medicine, medical guidelines, patient empowerment, patient safety programs, and quality management.
Winterhude is a quarter in the ward Hamburg-Nord of Hamburg, Germany. As of 2016 the population was 54,826.
Werner Georg Kollath was a German bacteriologist, hygienist and food scientist. He is considered a pioneer of whole foods.
IQAir is a Swiss air quality technology company, specializing in protection against airborne pollutants, developing air quality monitoring and air cleaning products. IQAir also operates AirVisual, a real-time air quality information platform. As of February 2020, it had around 500 employees worldwide, 150 of them in China, and its most important markets were Asia and North America.
Kerstin Griese is a German politician (SPD). She is a member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. She also belongs to the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).