Medevi Brunn is Scandinavia 's oldest spa , located in Motala Municipality on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern , in north-west Östergötland , Sweden .
7-429: The spa was founded in 1678 by Count Gustaf Soop and the royal doctor Urban Hjärne . Queen Hedvig Eleonora had a summer residence built at Medevi säteri , on the hills overlooking the village, at the recommendation of Hjärne. Since then, people have been coming to Medevi every summer to cure themselves from ailments by drinking the mineral water and by covering themselves in mud wraps . Most buildings date back to
14-464: A Swedish building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urban Hj%C3%A4rne Urban Hjärne (20 December 1641 – 10 March 1724) was a Swedish chemist , geologist, physician and writer. He was born at Skworitz near Nyenschantz in Swedish Ingria . He was the son of vicar Erlandus Jonæ Hiærne (1596–1654) and Christina Tomasdotter Schmidt (1615–1682). He
21-712: A physician in Stockholm where his practice primarily served the aristocracy. In 1669 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was appointed first physician to the King Charles XI of Sweden in 1684 and was ennobled in 1689. He became assessor of the Board of Mines ( Bergskollegium ) in 1675. He became head of the Laboratorium Chemicum in 1683. He was also the author of Stratonice , sometimes claimed to be
28-855: The 18th and 19th centuries. The health center was closed in 1982, but the water is still served to visitors in the summer. Medevi has become one of the most popular resorts to celebrate the Scandinavian summer holiday of midsummer . During the midsummer weekend, daily visitors in the village often number over 10,000. The area surrounding Medevi has seen a dramatic increase in the construction of summer residences, some of which have been turned into year-round housing. The nearby beach village of Västanvik alone has over 500 such residences. Two confirmation camps are held every year, run by Hans Rhodin. Sweden's upper class 15-year-olds come for three-week stays. 58°40′N 14°57′E / 58.667°N 14.950°E / 58.667; 14.950 This article about
35-621: The child witnesses, leading to the witnesses to be exposed as liars and the dissolution of the Katarina witch trials, the Witcraft Commission, and ultimately the entire witch hunt. He built a research library of 3,500 books, one of the largest in Sweden. He married three times: first Maria Svahn, then Catharina Elisabeth Bergenhielm, and finally Elisabeth Carlsdotter. He died in Stockholm in 1724 and
42-600: The first Swedish novel, a partly autobiographical romance of seduction begun in 1665 and published in several parts, completed in 1668. In Sweden, Urban Hjärne is also known for his fight against witch trials. He was a member of the Witchcraft Commission in the Katarina witch trials during the Great noise in 1676, and is remembered as one of the members of the commission who started to feel scepticism toward witchraft and doubt
49-534: Was admitted in 1655 to the high school gymnasium in Dorpat . He went to Arva, where he studied until 1657. He entered Uppsala University in 1658. He began his medical education at Uppsala in 1661. For several years he visited Northern Europe's leading research center for medicine. He travelled to the Netherlands , England and France . In 1670, he became a doctor of medicine at Angers, France . In 1674 he settled as
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